There are 3 things that still bother me about that game. The first one goes right to the point of Parcells conservative ways.
1. When we take our first timeout in the second half and we have the ball on Seattle's 31 or 32 yd line with a 3rd and 1 facing us. And we were up by 7pts at that time I believe. Everyone knows that this is where we go to Barber and we had success with that most of the season. However if you remember the prior game against Detroit, Barber was getting stuffed on those short yardage situations. So..after the timeout I see Barber coming onto the field and I just knew this was the perfect time to cross the defense up and do a play-action pass and really take control of the game. Instead we hand off to Barber right up the middle and lose 2yds and end up punting.
2. Why did the officials change the spot of the ball on Witten's catch late in the game? If anyone can show me the replay that CLEARLY IS DEFINITIVE that it was wrong I would like to see it because I have still not seen it.
3. I had no problem going for the field goal after they changed the spot after Witten's catch. I thought that was the right call but I do subscribe to the consipiracy theory of the slippery ball being put into play for that field goal try. The replay shows the shiny ball and Holmgrens un-provoked defending of his people who handled the football and then his cheap shot remark about Tony not holding on to it makes me wonder if there really is something about that.
But Parcells was conservative and his over-reaction to Tony's fumbling bumbling ways in the previous game against Detroit may explain why he was that way in this game. However when we were up by 7 and facing a 3rd and 1...that was the time to go for it instead of being conservative.
I will never understand that call. The Sehawks were the defending NFC champs and Dallas had stumbled down the stretch of the season and we were the clear underdogs. You have let your team try to win instead of trying not to lose it in those circumstances!!!!!!!!
