Scottemojo":32vd8urg said:
One of the things I really love about Pete's Seahawks is how they resist quitting no matter how bleak things look or how much the pressure mounts.
But early last season, Seattle started 2-4 in large part because they were not competing as hard in the 4th quarters of games. And really, they should have started 1-5, if not for Kam punching a ball out and the refs cutting us a break. Prior to that play, the Seahawks looked helpless against a bad Lions offense. At home.
There are football reasons for those collapses, but I think there were emotional reasons too. Seattle just wasn't fighting at the end of those games. Teams were coming back on Seattle. And in Green Bay, it felt like Seattle flat out quit after the fumble that appeared to have been recovered by Britt.
Seattle has lost two SBs, and felt big dropoffs the next season after both of them. I definitely subscribe to the idea that morale matters in football.
My favorite part of last season might have been at the very end, when Seattle put some fright into that Carolina crowd who assumed they had the game won up 31-0 in the 2nd quarter. Just one more stop defensively, and Seattle might have completed one of the biggest playoff comebacks of all time. Early in the season there were only hints of that kind of fight, but by the end of the year everyone was believing again.