Seattle game reactions

Replay that game in a week and they win it. I feel such sorrow

I know we expect a lot from the rookie… but I am shocked Kupp didn’t make that catch.

Tavon can’t catch punts.

I don’t understand the logic of that rule. Fumble into the endzOne is a touchback? WHY!!!

The first quarter was great but after that mistakes and missed opportunities and not much fun to watch. I think playing in front of a sparse crowd where hags fans out number Rams fans wears on this young team. How do you put TA back out for a 2nd punt? How do you fumble through the endzone when your foot is already out of bounds? 10 points for these guys is simply unacceptable and the hags sure didn’t look like Superbowl contenders on D either. Watkins seem lackadaisical watching balls hit the turf while Woods worked his ass off yet again. I guess it’s so disappointing because this team is capable of so much more but they were just off.

positives. i thought john johnson looked good. all over the field. saw him make tackles, an int (coulda had 2), pass breakups. i think he’s a full time starter by next year at least.

robert woods made some outstanding catches. lots of different guys can hurt you.

tyler higbee. maybe had his best game yet catching the ball i thought. he and woods made some key catches in fourth quarter.

really. i think it just came down to turnovers. 5 rams’ turnovers to the seahawks’ 2.

no way a team – especially this young – wins with that. and at least 3 of them were unnecessary. gurley doesn’t need to stick the ball out like that and expose it. austin needs to hold onto the punt. goff throws a poor pass to gurley and loses a fg.

so i count at least 13 points right there (including gz’s missed fg). i can’t remember what happened after the austin fumble, but i assume a fg there. so that’s 16 points. [ok. nevermind. i forgot. it was an int. still. that’s 13 points.]

taking care of the ball, gz making an easy fg, and better execution wins the game easily.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by InvaderRam.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by InvaderRam.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by InvaderRam.

The Rams defense played really well.

I will add…Goff drove them down the field with under two minutes to play, and no timeouts, and nearly won it. They could have won that game. He scorched that pass a little too much for Kupp, imo, but that play was there.

Zooey wrote:

That was an absolute fluke play at the end, and it was the difference in the game, imo. I don’t blame Gurley.

slight disagreement. he shoulda kept 2 hands on the ball. even if he doesn’t get the td he’s got 1st and goal on the 1 yard line. reach out with both hands and dive if anything. and it isn’t just this game. in general he’s been coughing up the ball at an alarming rate. that, the missed fg, tavon’s muffed punt (although it didn’t lead to points), and the goff int for gurley bothered me the most. the goff fumble and the other int. well. shit happens but those other turnovers shouldn’t have happened.

but i agree that i saw promise behind all the missed opportunities. i saw a young team that hung in there with a veteran team.

we also gotta remember this was goff’s 12th start of his career. this was bound to happen, and it happened against what at least awhile ago was the best secondary in the league. he’ll learn from this i am sure.

and even with all that they were maybe what? 1 inch from a winning td catch by kupp?

not bad but at the same time they shouldn’t be satisfied. and i don’t think they were. they know they let one slip away. they’ll learn from this.

or not.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by InvaderRam.

I have to be honest. I checked out of the game at half time. I just had a sick feeling about the whole thing. I kept checking scoring updates but beyond that I didn’t watch any football yesterday. It felt too much like last year and with all the crap wrong in the world right now I just didn’t want to endure that frustrating feeling.

I still feel it.

I’m trying not to think about football this week, I guess. The first four weeks were great–a wonderful distraction.

I just didn’t feel like sitting through this. Had they won I would have missed an amazing win–I know. But I’d still feel better today.

I doubt I’ll watch this game for awhile–if ever.

I hope they can bounce back next week.

If you had told me they’d be 3-2 at for the first five game I’m sure I would have taken it.

Where do they go from here? We will see.

This is the ‘kind’ of thing one would expect from a young, rising team. This kind of game full of pluses and minuses.

And this is the kind of game one would expect from a mentally tough, challenged, Seattle team. I thought THEY would be sky-high and motivated for this one. I mean everyone knew this was a statement game. Seattle certainly knew about that statement.

Still looks to me like one team is rising and one is falling a bit.

The rematch should be very inter esting.

And now the test for McV is, can he get them back on track. Can he clean up the mistakes. And can he find a punt-returner with good hands.

4-2 would sound a lot better than the sosar-like 3-3.

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Zooey wrote:

One other “singular” play. Whitworth. Hadn’t allowed but one pressure all year, and he gets beaten with Goff getting blown up for a fumble.

Still. I like the way WV put it: the Rams are a team on the rise, and Seattle is on the decline.

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I think of the classic short story (cant think of the author) about the old grizzled boxer and the up-and-coming talented young boxer.

Course in the story the kid won 🙁

I noticed the Rams had way more total yards than the hawks.

btw, i have winced at other times when Gurley has stretched out and reached for the goal-line. I wince when ANY player does that in the NFL. I’ve seen too many of those reach-outs turn into turnovers. Earl Thomas is a pro-bowler. The guy makes those kinds of plays all the time. Lesson learned, one would hope.

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wv wrote:

Earl Thomas is a pro-bowler. The guy makes those kinds of plays all the time. Lesson learned, one would hope.

From 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkENSTceN3E

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Yeah, lets hope these young players learn.

There’s a time to reach,
and a time to secure the ball.

I’d say the time to secure the ball is anytime Earl Thomas
is on the field.

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