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We certainly sucked today. You have to give credit to the Chargers for making the most of their opportunity to get a a win against one of the best teams in the NFL. Rivers played real tough and put the ball where Gates had the only chance to catch it and he came through several times.
SD played "keep away" all day and kept the Hawks Defense out there in the heat. They had exactly the right game plan for today's conditions. Seattle kept it close enough to win at the end but one play that is usually extremely successfull, the Harvin sweep, got sniffed out or more likely the blocking fell apart and Harvin was tackled right when he got the ball. There was no excuse for that screw up. We had plenty of time and harvin and our O-Line wasn't playing our A game when we needed it. Also we shot ourselves in the foot with bone head penalties that allowed SD to escape after they had been stopped far behind the LOS. This happened several times and exasperated the need to get our Defense off the field.
This was a good lesson that a good team can beat a great team with a great game plan.
Credit to SD.
Now we need to PUNISH Denver next weekend to make up for today's sloppy play.
SD played "keep away" all day and kept the Hawks Defense out there in the heat. They had exactly the right game plan for today's conditions. Seattle kept it close enough to win at the end but one play that is usually extremely successfull, the Harvin sweep, got sniffed out or more likely the blocking fell apart and Harvin was tackled right when he got the ball. There was no excuse for that screw up. We had plenty of time and harvin and our O-Line wasn't playing our A game when we needed it. Also we shot ourselves in the foot with bone head penalties that allowed SD to escape after they had been stopped far behind the LOS. This happened several times and exasperated the need to get our Defense off the field.
This was a good lesson that a good team can beat a great team with a great game plan.
Credit to SD.
Now we need to PUNISH Denver next weekend to make up for today's sloppy play.