Sunday, October 19, 2003
DID YOU HAVE THE BEARS AND THE POINTS?
If you did, you would have won that bet...the Hawks didn't win by 10.
The Hawks once again didn't play up to their full potential but still hung on to improve to 5-1 and maintain their one-game lead over the Rams in the NFC West.
This game was truly infuriating to watch. They were facing the frigging Bears. The Bears at one point had a 3-0 lead, which is inexcusable in itself. More inexcusable was how crappy the special teams were. Another crappy thing was when they showed the insane graphic about the Seahawks defense in the red zone. I think the scoring rate was like 70% or something; it was just brutal.
The thing about this Seahawk defense, for all the hype it's been getting, they are far from where they need to be. There's times when they look absolutely great, when they're pressuring the quarterback and breaking up passes and stuffing the run, but there's also quite a few times where they leave a guy wide open or the no-name running back finds a seam (Adrian Peterson today) or they blow it on third down and long, or they get tagged for an untimely defensive holding or pass interference penalty (auto first downs, of course). It just got maddening to watch, especially against a pathetic Bears team.
How telling is it that 38-year-old, one-concussion-away-from-ending-his-career Chris Chandler did a way better job than Kordell Stewart did at QB? They had a stat in the game that said Kordell was involved in 10 of the Bears' 13 turnovers this year. Hiyo!!
Also, the Fox sideline reporter for the game was Mrs. Tom Rouen, who most people know as Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken. She didn't have to refer to notes at all the first time when reporting some kind of injury, though the second time she did (I think there were about three or four names involved).
The Hawks once again didn't play up to their full potential but still hung on to improve to 5-1 and maintain their one-game lead over the Rams in the NFC West.
This game was truly infuriating to watch. They were facing the frigging Bears. The Bears at one point had a 3-0 lead, which is inexcusable in itself. More inexcusable was how crappy the special teams were. Another crappy thing was when they showed the insane graphic about the Seahawks defense in the red zone. I think the scoring rate was like 70% or something; it was just brutal.
The thing about this Seahawk defense, for all the hype it's been getting, they are far from where they need to be. There's times when they look absolutely great, when they're pressuring the quarterback and breaking up passes and stuffing the run, but there's also quite a few times where they leave a guy wide open or the no-name running back finds a seam (Adrian Peterson today) or they blow it on third down and long, or they get tagged for an untimely defensive holding or pass interference penalty (auto first downs, of course). It just got maddening to watch, especially against a pathetic Bears team.
How telling is it that 38-year-old, one-concussion-away-from-ending-his-career Chris Chandler did a way better job than Kordell Stewart did at QB? They had a stat in the game that said Kordell was involved in 10 of the Bears' 13 turnovers this year. Hiyo!!
Also, the Fox sideline reporter for the game was Mrs. Tom Rouen, who most people know as Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken. She didn't have to refer to notes at all the first time when reporting some kind of injury, though the second time she did (I think there were about three or four names involved).
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