How Did the Seahawks Manage to Lose the Superbowl Daddy?

Sam and I know why the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. Because the Patriots won, duh. It must be a big blonde world out here in the Pacific Northwest, particularly around Seattle, because there has been so much gnashing of teeth and anguished cries of, “Why? Why? Why?

Why did the Seahawks elect to pass the ball on the one-yard line when they could have handed it to Marshawn Lynch and he could have plowed into the end zone for a touchdown? Because Pete Caroll’s coaching crew thought a pass play was the way to go, duh. How many times did the Seahawks and Lynch fail to reach the end zone from the one-yard line this year? Think people, think.

The Patriots won because they had a superior game plan and executed it precisely. Tom Brady’s short passes gained yardage and first downs all game long while the Seahawks failed to blitz Brady and sat back on their heels waiting for him to throw bombs they could intercept. The thing Sam and I don’t understand is when your game plan is obviously failing (Seahawks), why not try something else before the game gets totally out of hand. The Hawks lost the season opener to San Diego and a later game to Kansas City the same way they lost to New England.

Hoping for a miracle play, like Jermaine Kearse’s fumbling catch that set up the possibility of a Seahawks,’ win is like hoping to win the lottery. It just doesn’t happen very often and the Seahawks depend on it happening way too much. The Seahawks had been lucky all season long, but the Super Bowl loss was a pure case of their luck finally running out. There was not going to be a comeback type win like in the Packer’s game.

The thing Sam and I really don’t understand is how one muffed play – and it wasn’t muffed so much as it was snuffed – generate so much angsty gab on sports-talk radio shows. Over and over and over, ad infinitum, why? Why? Why?

Hey, but this may be good news. The sports talk guys have been wondering who the Seahawks will have on the team next year and one guy who won’t be there is Dan Quinn. the former defensive coordinator who has accepted the job as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. So, next time the Seahawks play the Falcons, all the Hawks have to do is remember how the Falcons will defense them, and pull a Patriots passing attack out of their hats.

By the way, are Sam and I the only ones who think Russell Wilson looks a HECKUVA lot better without all the hair, especially the facial hair?

Okay. So we all now hope the Patriots get caught and punished for deflating footballs. Can we also punish them for deflating Seahawks fans hopes? Boy we thought we were going to win, didn’t we? I had the same feeling at a horse race once. Dang nag ran dead last.