All I’m going to say is that the Seattle Seahawks were damned
fortunate to beat the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. Russell Wilson was ineffective
for most of the game and somehow Golden Tate made a "miraculous" catch--or at least that is what the scrub officials apparently saw from behind their blindfolds--on the final
play after Wilson misfired on three straight passes, after the Packers stopped
them on fourth down in the red zone the previous possession. Biggest
non-officials' blunder: Packer coach Mike McCarthy calling a time-out with 57 seconds left that allowed the Seahawks just enough time. Officials were calling penalties like it was
next week, the biggest a ticky-tack roughing the passer penalty that negated a
Wilson interception on the Seahawks’ 26, which likely would have iced the game
for the Packers.
But it was on that final play where the replacement officials made what was probably the most egregious blunder so far this season: Tate's "catch" should have been negated in the first instance by his offensive pass interference committed against the Packers' Sam Shields, and in the second when the Packers' M.D. Jennings clearly had possession of the ball, not Tate--yet two replacement officials incomprehensibly called it a touchdown, and the replay official played fearful to the hometown crowd by not reversing the call. In fact the call was so horrific that one suspects that the replay official didn't want to make the officials who made the call look like the complete fools they are. Even Wilson partisan Jon Gruden was angered by the blown calls that all went against Green Bay late in the game. An impromtu poll on ESPN also showed that the vast majority of viewers thought the final pass was intercepted. Furthermore, John Tournour (JT the Brick) on Fox Sports said that Seahawk fans shouldn't kid themselves--Wilson was awful in this game, and fans shouldn't expect to see the team going to the Super Bowl anytime soon with this guy. Yet you had the likes of Dori Monson on the Seahawks post game show doing a disservice to fans by claiming it was a "great" win, not telling them that most of the national sports media is going to condemn it as a fraud.
The fact is that the Packers were able to move the ball on Seattle defense at will in the second half, and stifled the Seahawks offense until late in the fourth quarter. But the Packers could not convert two of those drives into touchdowns, and missed on a two-point conversion--what they needed to do to overcome this officiating disaster. This is the kind of game that just makes you sick to your stomach because you knew that the better team lost. Seattle is such a vanilla team that their luck must run out sooner or later—the sooner the better for these frauds.
But it was on that final play where the replacement officials made what was probably the most egregious blunder so far this season: Tate's "catch" should have been negated in the first instance by his offensive pass interference committed against the Packers' Sam Shields, and in the second when the Packers' M.D. Jennings clearly had possession of the ball, not Tate--yet two replacement officials incomprehensibly called it a touchdown, and the replay official played fearful to the hometown crowd by not reversing the call. In fact the call was so horrific that one suspects that the replay official didn't want to make the officials who made the call look like the complete fools they are. Even Wilson partisan Jon Gruden was angered by the blown calls that all went against Green Bay late in the game. An impromtu poll on ESPN also showed that the vast majority of viewers thought the final pass was intercepted. Furthermore, John Tournour (JT the Brick) on Fox Sports said that Seahawk fans shouldn't kid themselves--Wilson was awful in this game, and fans shouldn't expect to see the team going to the Super Bowl anytime soon with this guy. Yet you had the likes of Dori Monson on the Seahawks post game show doing a disservice to fans by claiming it was a "great" win, not telling them that most of the national sports media is going to condemn it as a fraud.
The fact is that the Packers were able to move the ball on Seattle defense at will in the second half, and stifled the Seahawks offense until late in the fourth quarter. But the Packers could not convert two of those drives into touchdowns, and missed on a two-point conversion--what they needed to do to overcome this officiating disaster. This is the kind of game that just makes you sick to your stomach because you knew that the better team lost. Seattle is such a vanilla team that their luck must run out sooner or later—the sooner the better for these frauds.
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