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So I took a deep breath, cranked up my recording of the game and went directly to the fourth quarter.
Here's the recap of what I saw:
Dallas 17 Sea 13- 11:13- Third down and one foot. Two TE set. Total collapse by the O line.
Rivera is blown up on the play. Kozier doubles the DT with Gurode, only to realize too late that the LB has shot the gap he vacated. Columbo misses badly and allows the DE to collapse that side of the line as he slants. Adams literally blocks no one. He slaps at the DE with his left hand and then goes out to block the safety, who he misses by a mile.
As an aside. We had FOUR offensive linemen on ONE DT with a TON of room for Romo to sneak. Why on earth he didn't do it is beyond me. Why not call two plays in the huddle. If the defense has the sneak defended, then run the other play. THIS would have been an easy first down if we ran the sneak.
We kick a FG when a TD would have put us up by 24-13. No guarantee we would have scored a td but this play was AWFUL.
Dallas 20 Sea 13- 9:39 Second and eight from their own 28. Seattle's Engram beats Glen for an 11 yard gain. We blitz. Five man rush. No pressure.
8:52 Next play. 1st and 10 from their own 39. No pass rush with a four man rush. Engram beats Newman for 35 yard gain.
8:18 Next play. 1st and 10 from the Dallas 30. PI on Newman. And kids, no matter what anyone says this was a PI. In fact, if I can, I'll get the freeze frame of Newman with his hand actually INSIDE of the right arm of the WR pulling on it. This after he put his hand on the WR twice before on the same play.
8:08 Next play. 1st and Goal. TREMENDOUS play by Ware as he tackles Alexander for a 7 yard loss.
7:40 2nd and goal. We leave the WR, split far left, uncovered. No one, as in NO ONE is covering him. Henry is waving for someone to get over there. (Ya think someone would have had the awareness to call a timeout??) He points several times before the WR is picked up before the snap. If Hassleback would have seen this, it was an EASY TD. So, we tried to give them this play. They just didn't take it.
Then Holmgren decided to return the favor by going for it on fourth down from the 2 yard line.
Dallas 20 Sea 13- From our own 2 yard line. THE SAFETY. I could make an argument that Glenn never controlled this ball and it was, in fact, an incompletion.
If this was a change of the play call by Romo, he did it without telling anyone because he snaps the ball before calling an audible. It almost looks like Barber was expecting the hand off.
Dallas 20 Sea 15- 6:17- First and 10, 50 yard line. FB drifts out of backfield. We got decent pressure. FB catches the ball in front of Ayodele and James for 12 yard gain.
5:12, same drive, 3rd and one from the Dallas 41. Roy comes screaming into the backfield and misses Alexander for what would have been a 3 yard loss resulting in a 4th and 4 play. First down for Seattle
4:30. Very next play. James is beat by 4 yards and is doing a sprint to catch up to the TE. Roy is way late and beat also. Seattle TD. ZERO pass rush from our THREE man rush. 8 in coverage and the TE was still WIDE OPEN.
Seattle 21 Dallas 20- Romo botches the snap.
Seattle gets the ball back on their one yard line. Dallas has eight in the box to stop the run. Ferguson penetrates right past the play. James is blocked into a different zip code. Roy overruns the play, dramatically.
Game over.
Winning teams step up at this time. This collapse at the end of the game, ironically, mirrors our collapse in December.
Here's the recap of what I saw:
Dallas 17 Sea 13- 11:13- Third down and one foot. Two TE set. Total collapse by the O line.
Rivera is blown up on the play. Kozier doubles the DT with Gurode, only to realize too late that the LB has shot the gap he vacated. Columbo misses badly and allows the DE to collapse that side of the line as he slants. Adams literally blocks no one. He slaps at the DE with his left hand and then goes out to block the safety, who he misses by a mile.
As an aside. We had FOUR offensive linemen on ONE DT with a TON of room for Romo to sneak. Why on earth he didn't do it is beyond me. Why not call two plays in the huddle. If the defense has the sneak defended, then run the other play. THIS would have been an easy first down if we ran the sneak.
We kick a FG when a TD would have put us up by 24-13. No guarantee we would have scored a td but this play was AWFUL.
Dallas 20 Sea 13- 9:39 Second and eight from their own 28. Seattle's Engram beats Glen for an 11 yard gain. We blitz. Five man rush. No pressure.
8:52 Next play. 1st and 10 from their own 39. No pass rush with a four man rush. Engram beats Newman for 35 yard gain.
8:18 Next play. 1st and 10 from the Dallas 30. PI on Newman. And kids, no matter what anyone says this was a PI. In fact, if I can, I'll get the freeze frame of Newman with his hand actually INSIDE of the right arm of the WR pulling on it. This after he put his hand on the WR twice before on the same play.
8:08 Next play. 1st and Goal. TREMENDOUS play by Ware as he tackles Alexander for a 7 yard loss.
7:40 2nd and goal. We leave the WR, split far left, uncovered. No one, as in NO ONE is covering him. Henry is waving for someone to get over there. (Ya think someone would have had the awareness to call a timeout??) He points several times before the WR is picked up before the snap. If Hassleback would have seen this, it was an EASY TD. So, we tried to give them this play. They just didn't take it.
Then Holmgren decided to return the favor by going for it on fourth down from the 2 yard line.
Dallas 20 Sea 13- From our own 2 yard line. THE SAFETY. I could make an argument that Glenn never controlled this ball and it was, in fact, an incompletion.
If this was a change of the play call by Romo, he did it without telling anyone because he snaps the ball before calling an audible. It almost looks like Barber was expecting the hand off.
Dallas 20 Sea 15- 6:17- First and 10, 50 yard line. FB drifts out of backfield. We got decent pressure. FB catches the ball in front of Ayodele and James for 12 yard gain.
5:12, same drive, 3rd and one from the Dallas 41. Roy comes screaming into the backfield and misses Alexander for what would have been a 3 yard loss resulting in a 4th and 4 play. First down for Seattle
4:30. Very next play. James is beat by 4 yards and is doing a sprint to catch up to the TE. Roy is way late and beat also. Seattle TD. ZERO pass rush from our THREE man rush. 8 in coverage and the TE was still WIDE OPEN.
Seattle 21 Dallas 20- Romo botches the snap.
Seattle gets the ball back on their one yard line. Dallas has eight in the box to stop the run. Ferguson penetrates right past the play. James is blocked into a different zip code. Roy overruns the play, dramatically.
Game over.
Winning teams step up at this time. This collapse at the end of the game, ironically, mirrors our collapse in December.
