Happy Holidays

First of all want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, happy holiday season and a Happy New Year.

The Seattle Seahawks winning on Christmas Eve would have assured them the second best record in the NFC for the playoffs. It would have given them a bye in the first round and home field advantage against everyone except the Dallas Cowboys however they lost 34-31 on a field goal at the end against the Arizona Cardinals. The thing is the Cardinals are not going to the playoffs however they were playing a division rival so they didn’t care about upsetting the Seahawks. In fact they showed the Seahawks that they are a difficult team to beat. It looked like near the end the Seahawks could win the game but the problem is the defense had a poor game and could not stop the Cardinals who had less than two minutes to go when they got the ball after a Seahawk touchdown that tied the game 31-31.

The Seahawks scored a touchdown with just under three minutes to go to make the score 31-25. The defense did a good job at that point in stopping the Cardinals without taking much time off the clock. Actually it was the only time of the game it seemed that they could stop the Cardinals. After scoring another touchdown to even the score the Seahawks could not make the extra point to go ahead by one point. It looked like the game could go into overtime like the first game the Seahawks played the Cardinals in Arizona that ended in a 6-6 tie.

The Seahawks defense was not the only thing that did not go well on Christmas Eve for the team the Seahawks lost Tyler Lockett to a broken leg near the end of the first half that looked like a touchdown as well unfortunately it was ruled the ball on the two yard line. You would have thought the Seahawks could get the ball in however they did not on four tries. You wonder if the game would have been won right there however earlier the Seahawks missed a field goal to. Also Jon Ryan had a punt blocked as well. The ball was snapped high so the major reason for the block besides a lineman on the side came in untouched. So you see the defense had a bad day along with special teams and the offense line sure had their challenges to. The Seahawks not only lost Lockett for the season they lost Thomas Rawls in the game to. Not sure whether he will be back next week against the 49ers.

The Seahawks did have some good news Earl Thomas announced on Twitter that he was returning next year and not retiring. Most of us expect so however hearing the news was good. He had a hard time watching the game on the sideline just like the rest of us. If you listen to Thomas he thinks the game helped the Seahawks for when they get into the playoffs. We will see won’t we?

Now that the game is over we can enjoy whatever we do on this Christmas day whether it is spent with family or going skiing or other activities. Again Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.