TwistedHusky":1a0bq1d1 said:
You don't win playoff games when you score less than 20 in a game. Not with a middle of the road defense.
Yes that one scramble sucked. So did the long run by Elliott when apparently everyone knew he would get the ball but the Seahawks. Then again, their defense made mistakes too.
The biggest mistake was thinking that 6 points at the half was OK or running the ball when up by 4 points even made sense (14 to 10 at the time). Our defense was average. They were going to score again. We had to score as well. We acted like we didn't need to worry about it.
You cannot score 20 points in an NFL game and expect to win. I don't count our garbage time TD against the prevent D. You know full well that we did not produce when we needed to and that was on the offense not the defense.
I agree it was more on the offense or rather the offensive game plan example below
1st down play calls on your first 4 drives of the 2nd half:
6 RB-runs: 3.9 YPC, 14% success rate
1 pass: 9 yards, 100% success rate
we waited till deep into the 4th qtr to open it up, should have started much sooner like 2nd qtr after 3 straight run, run, long pass son 3rd and out. Every scoring drive started with a pass. Also all the ones that ended in a FG ended just before with run, run, 3rd and long