who gets open oh so much but has the hands of a walking lamppost. catch a ball seahawks. catch a freaking football.

John, I’m sure you’ll break this down later, but wasn’t that Mebane being blown out by the center when Williams busted over left guard for a 51 yard td? I’m not detracting from his overall game, but on that particular play, who is responsible for that gap? And am I mistaken, or was that Russell playing, up giving Ricky a high five on his way to the house?

is almost no fumbles from our RBs especially, or QBs.

I haven’t watched the replay, thanks for clearing that up. And that was Russell up there. Seems like a good match up, having ’lil Russy on Jake.

i’m glad to see Carlson doing well. he was really the lone bright spot of an otherwise miserable season last year. he was Brady Quinn’s security blanket in ’06.

sorry the season is going so poorly. it’s too bad a great and classy coach like Holmgren has to go out like this. good luck the rest of the year.

Maybe I’m just conditioned to hate this guy’s play, but didn’t Russell do a great job screening Trufant away from being able to make a play on that flea flicker touchdown pass? Did anyone else think this?

I’m not completely blaming it on them-the Seahawks’ dropped passes had more fault-but the phantom hold and horrible OPI call in the Super Bowl; last’s year’s “Moving the ball three yards up on the challenge” call in the GB playoff game; the horrible holding call on Wahle earlier this year on the 51-yard rush by Jones, a call that both Raible and Moon both said shouldn’t have been called; and finally, yesterday’s miss of DPI on that play which had been so crucial. It seems to me that the Seahawks get penalized unfairly much more than any other team and the refs seem to miss more crucial calls against the the Seahawks’ opponents much more than any other team….Or is just because I look for those things?

I disagree with dropped passes being overrated in importance. If a receiver (TE, RB, etc.) is great at getting open and bad at catching footballs he is a blight to a West Coast offense (and pretty much any offense) which is predicated on short passes designed to get yards after the catch. It’s progressively more important depending on where you are in the scheme of the specific play. If you are the first read and you’re wide open, the QB’s going to throw to you whether other people are open or not. A drop in this case is a play/drive killer. A third or fourth read (outlet RB in the flat, for instance) isn’t as big a deal because at least his drop may be sack prevention.

I also disagree with the baseball error analogy. In baseball you’re right that if the player doesn’t make the play no one would have (usually), but on a football play the next check may also be open (and possessed of better hands).