The game turned out as a best case scenario. Sam played great and the team lost a meaningless game in a lost season to give the new group more draft capital.
It all starts with Sam Howell. He is showing much better pocket presence, he is doing the one thing I was concerned he didn't have the feel for moving in the pocket to buy time. He also showed he has "It" with that final drive. He has shown, as we had assumed he would, that with a clean pocket he can do damage. The tying TD pass was an example of that, he dropped it in there perfectly.
I have no idea why anyone would even entertain the thought that RR would be back. He isn't being evaluated on this season, he is being evaluated on all 4 seasons and the results speak for themselves.
Entering the season I had no thoughts what so ever that the WR group needed an upgrade. WTF happened??????
The loss of the 2 DEs did have an impact. I know I know QBs have had a clean pocket most of the year. But there was very little pressure from the outside. I was glad to see the injury to Smith-Williams was not more serious.
For a while it looked like Cheesehead had worked out his problems. Again WTF???
They should have signed Bobby Wagner 2 years ago when many of us wanted them to do this.
Not sure I understand the criticism with regard to the game clock in the final 4 minutes. If they had used timeouts that meant Seattle would have had even more time. At the time of the tying TD pass they were at the 35 with a minute left and a timeout. They were in fine shape regarding the game clock.
Throwing out Forbes for that hit was unbelievably bad. I have no idea what NFL officials are doing today.