primer:
we receive to open.
felix fumbles kick off
hold them to FG
we get ball back
blocked punt for TD
get the ball back, throw an int. another FG
13-0 we drive and get a TD. PHEW.
13-7 at the half
they get the ball and they march to start the half nice long drive and cap it with what i thought was a pretty nice offensive play. it was actually 31 personnel.
WR flanked left, 3 TE right. Wr drag, first TE drag inside towards WR, 2nd TE seam, 3rd TE wheel. Lee picks up and is locked in on TE drag. Spencer presses the seam route, has a guy in coverage behind him but i think he is watching the wheel develop
and by that time it's far too late, seam route is wide open for the TD catch. 20-7. huge play. we never could get it going after that
Jason has some just flatly bad drops... dez gets hit in the numbers early in the 1st Q and drops it... muffs but recovers the punt before halftime after we burned timeouts and forced the 3 and out we take a knee after not improving field position
Can't blame jason though. the secondary was laying wood on him all game, they got several very impressive and very legal hits in on him and miles on the sideline.
SO. late in the 3rd Q they start a possession. goes into the 4th Q at their like 30~ yard line.
A very very impactful play:
russel wilson (or someone) breaks contain and sean lee is in pursuit on the defensive right, working towards the offensive left sideline. Lee is watching the runner when Golden Tate levels him with an illegal blindside block (led with crown of helmet, and hit lee in the face and set him flying. Tate celebrated with sean lee on the ground. Lee got up smiling seeing the flag on the ground. Oh wait, Bruce Carter escorted Russel Wilson out of bounds a little too questionably. That'll be a 15 yard bonus for the Offense.
That was the straw that broke the camels back.
I read an analyst say that it was a trap... I felt the same way right after the game.
The odds of this sequence:
fumble opening KR (last time we did that was like 13 years ago)
Punt block TD (won't happen for the rest of the season)
INT
IN SEATTLE. IN THE FIRST QUARTER. astronomical, and devastating to (almost) ANY team. (other than red hot 2011 packer offense, cold blooded tom brady, etc)
that pretty much stuck the dagger in deep, and we never could get it out
Week 1 was a huge game. absolutely. Defending champs their house blah blah blah
Week 2... not super huge game. we know everything about how hard it is to play in SEA and how their secondary is hot... but we fell flat right out the gate. we tripped up on the starting line!
we gave the 12th man nitro glycerine by fumbling the kick off, getting a blocked punt, and then throwing an ugly INT. that crowd mas well have been huffing angel dust. they were more wild than the NYG crowd in week 1 (which was insane if you didn't notice)
Besides the fact that I think we overlooked all of seattles personnel across the board, i don't think we are a good match up for that team if we spot them 13 early points at home and get hit in the mouth and start bleeding on defense... they drove it down on us with marshawn and a couple nice plays by the rookie QB making it a 13 and then a 20 point game which forced us off of our offensive game plan.
Between our lock of a HOF TE and our "future top 5" receiver Dez Bryant both having quite underwhelming games.... combined with the ST gaffs..
we lost in week 2. It hurts. It reminds us how bitter defeat tastes. We have to move forward from this. I think this could be the worst game the cowboys will play all year.
So I think week 3 will be a more important game than week 2 because we are coming off the loss instead of coming off a win. More urgency in week 3 than in week 2. abso friggin lutely
We have something to prove at home. We are looking to prove we are the week 1 team that beat the giants, and that we are a DIFFERENT team from 2011