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Another NFL weekend of big games has passed and my Seattle Seahawks came up big in the fourth quarter to win the game against the Dallas Cowboys. I would possibly consider mentioning some of the other games, because there were other important feuds that took place, but I just don't see the point with the Seahawks having such a huge day.
The common conception in Seattle is that we tend to fold in the second half, and we never win the close ones, and until we prove this over and over, this is true. However, after a long, grueling, low-scoring game, nice to see the boys be on the top end of the totem pole when the clock wound down.
To give you a bit of history, in the past few meetings between the Hawks and Cowboys, the games have been oddly high-scoring and the Hawks usually end up losing by a couple points in the end. This weekend, with a beautiful interception after the two minute warning, we were able to get the ball back, Josh nailed a field goal (which was redemption from a few weeks ago), and Holmgren gave the team six days off as a reward for a new W. We won, everyone is happy, Quest Field erupted in a way only Seattle fans know how to do it, and life is good, and me, jumping up and down in my living room, couldn't be happier.
I don't want to focus too much on the positive so I have to point out some of the negative reality of this game. What happened in the first three quarters? We usually don't wait until the fourth quarter to pull ahead, we usually do that in the beginning, so why we were in a funk? Hasselback wasn't exactly on, and in fact, it was downright discouraging to watch him.
Alexander's numbers were in the toilet, and just watching him run wasn't exactly inspiring. We were battling, so was Dallas, but it's not fair to say that we were playing well and just not getting points up there, and we weren't playing like the top-calibur team we are either. If we had been playing San Diego or Atlanta right then, we would have been getting creamed.
I suppose I am only mentioning our offense since our defense was holding their ground and keeping Dallas from doing anything of major production, so kudos to those boys. However, backing up to offense, the reason for the lack of emotion, the low scoring, the ugliness in the first three quarters is because we do not have a leader. We have psudo-leaders, like Hasselback, Alexander, and Mack Strong, with Strong being the most influential and consistently productive in terms of rallying the offense as well as putting up numbers when given the chance.
However, everyone knows the quarterback is supposed to lead the team. Of course there has to be other areas of influence, but the man in charge on the field needs to be the quarterback. If you have read anything else I have written you would know that my feelings of Hasselback are not positive ones, and I do not believe he is the answer. If the team were to adopt this same opinion, which they never will, what to do?
Replacing him is not something Holmgren would ever do, that would be like admitting he is wrong, and training him to be more of a leader is not something Hasselback's ego would allow him to do, so what then? Probably nothing, we'll just play out the season and all those to come and hope for the best, and hopefully we'll come through and play with the emotion we sometimes see. Fingers crossed, and I believe they'll come through, but there are some things that need remedied.
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