The reason we lost this game is we punted 5 times and fumbled once. The defense forced 4 punts and 5 FGs. Rivera’s terrible clock management before the half, leaving enough time for an easy Seattle FG was also pretty stupid. Of course, the offense came up short for a 3 and out when it counted most to hand the ball back to Seattle.
It’s the modern NFL. Competent teams are going to score. Seattle was 4/14 on 3rd down. That’s a pretty respectable bend-don’t-break performance by the defense.
We have the receiving an RB talent. There’s no reason we didn’t put up 35 points yesterday.
Glad to see this take. People seem to have forgotten the first three quarters and focus on the last.
With that said, the offense showed up when it needed to and the defense did not. So I can understand why the criticism is there.
If we can have a game where both sides show up in all 4 quarters, we are legitimate contenders. But that may be a while…