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How many times did we lose like this last year? 4-5-6 times? I can't even watch this team anymore. All last year I had to watch them steal defeat from the jaws of victory, and here we have it again.

We suck!

How do you wash the bad taste of another loss like this out of your mouth? 1st down and 10 at the Cardinal 35 yard line and less than 2 minutes to go....and we LOSE??? Should we have taken 3 QB sneaks and then attempted a FG?

Good God! Quit doing this to me.

Ugh, it is quite disgusting, for sure, to lose this way. My solution is to clean organize my room, clean things, and throw things away....Seahawk losses lead me to work on SOMETHING.

I actually can't recall a loss quite like this. I can recall the offense scoring on a late drive, and the defense then giving points up, but I can't recall anything quite like what happened today.

This team seems destined to go down to Arizona and lose every year. Hasn't hurt them in the past...hopefully it doesn't hurt them this year.

Outside of the Bears OT game in the playoffs, the Hawks offense has been amazingly clutch in the closing minutes of games.

My biggest problem with today's game was not the botched snap, it was that we spotted the Cards 17 points.

If this team can't put together some decent first halfs, it's going to be a long season. Our defense isn't build to play from behind like that, and our offense isn't good enough to be forced into situations where they have to play near perfect football in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

Sweezo wrote:I actually can't recall a loss quite like this. I can recall the offense scoring on a late drive, and the defense then giving points up, but I can't recall anything quite like what happened today.

This team seems destined to go down to Arizona and lose every year. Hasn't hurt them in the past...hopefully it doesn't hurt them this year.

No Sweezo, I can't quite either. But last year was absolutely excruciating to watch. I can't remember following a team where I felt scalded by losses and major breakdowns like last year. Sure, I've followed losing teams in losing seasons, but not where the percentage of scalding losses were so great.

That's what I meant about today's game. It reminded me of how I felt too many times last season. It was like effing watching Sisyphus last year. They'd roll the boulder just about to the top of the hill, and then it would come tumbling back down ingloriously again.

The Holt bomb, the Viking 45 yard run off tackle deep in their territory on 3rd down, anon, anon...

The Seahawks have to find the grit and savvy to close games out, not steal defeat from the jaws of victory.

vegas_runnin_rebel wrote:
If this team can't put together some decent first halfs, it's going to be a long season. Our defense isn't build to play from behind like that, and our offense isn't good enough to be forced into situations where they have to play near perfect football in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

Yeah, that's what troubles me more than anything else. For two straight games, the team's showed an inability to get into a groove offensively until right before the half ends.

Relying on the offense to put a bunch of second half points on the board or the defense to stop every late drive just isn't going to work.

vegas_runnin_rebel wrote:My biggest problem with today's game was not the botched snap, it was that we spotted the Cards 17 points.

Yeah, there's the real problem. Don't let an inferior team hang around like this, and then you won't have to worry about being clutch in the final minutes, when anything can happen. (Same goes for Super Bowl XL: by all rights they should have been running out the clock rather than doing that poorly-executed two minute drill.)

In a similar vein, anyone see this article on Page 2?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=kjackson/070919

Kinda funny to see posters outed on ESPN (although we're all guilty of postgame overreaction). Those were all comments on the News Tribune blog comments...which I can't even read because everyone over there seems suicidal all the time.