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Three first half things that hurt more than the Sherman interception

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Sure, Dick Sherman's pick deflating, but these were way way worse, In descending order:

3. JStew fumble. This was coming, I could see it after the first screen play where the chopped away the juggling catch into out of bounds. It was at a time where we were eating up the clock, and making Wilson's lobbing, lucky ass on the pine. It hurt, badly. That could have been at least a field goal.

2. Cotchery dropping the easy pass on the 3rd down of the first series. The opening drive should set a stern tone for the game, and making mistakes against a team as lucky as the Seahawks never ends well. Yes they are a good team, but I swear to god lucky as hell. That catch could have at least set us up for helping out my number one thing that hurt the most.

1. Brenton Bersins unconfident fielding of punts. We were consistently starting from our own 11 yard line, with a strong worry that the ball would be fumbled that close to the endzone at any minute. This really hurt how well we could move down the field, and how well our offense could get started.

In my personal opinion, had all three of these things had never happened, the outcome of the game could have been completely different or at least much closer.

IIRC, all three of these things may have happened in the first quarter, let alone half.

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Rivera's clock management to close the first half was a pretty big momentum shift.

I was so pissed.

You go for it on 4th and 2 - get the first down - run a bad play - let 8 seconds (close to 25%) run off the clock.

Why go for it on 4th if you're not going to try and score? They still had two TOs.

Terrible

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Benjamin's catch where he didn't get both feet in happened in the first half, right?

Man, what a game changer that would have been.  Obviously I'm not going to hold that against Benji, making that catch and getting both feet in over Sherman would have been unbelievable.  However, had he just gotten that one foot in, we are talking about a 14-14 game at halftime and us with the momentum.  That could have changed so much.

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I was so pissed.

You go for it on 4th and 2 - get the first down - run a bad play - let 8 seconds (close to 25%) run off the clock.

Why go for it on 4th if you're not going to try and score? They still had two TOs.

Terrible

 

I'm with you man. It was absolutely infuriating. Everyone sees it but him apparently, which makes it borderline insanity.

 

I've been a Rivera supporter, I've said all along I wanted him to succeed here.

 

But I just unfortunately do not see him ever developing into the coach that we need on that front. He is woefully out of his element.

 

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How about laying up for the field goal?

We drove down beautifully. Yes the almost earl int was unfortunate but it was 37 seconds and 4 yards from the firat down, 24 yard line. We had 2 timeouts.

We ran 15 seconds off the clock and ran a DRAW to Tolbert. Sure if Tolberts old fat ass doesn't get trucked a yard shy by Chancellor its a mute point but we probably still kick the field goal.

A touchdown there would have really set the tone for the 2nd half.

Im saying that contributed greatly to losing.

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