venerdì 28 novembre 2014

NFL: San Francisco 49ers 3 Seattle Seahawks 19 recap and considerations

Levi's Stadium the home of the 49ers who host the Seahawks in a game that have a huge importance for both team plus of that it's also a huge rivarly game, one of the biggest rivarly in sport right now, 2 physical team who play tough and have the same objective.
The 1st 2 drives by both offenses resulted in nothing thanks to 2 very good defense who studied well their opponents, great job by both defensive coordinators to call the right play and this gave no choice to the offenses. Seattle's defense stop the 3rd SF's drive with a Sherman interception on a bad pass by Kaepernick who tried to hit Lloyd on a curl route but he missed completely the timing and it resulted in very good chance for the Hawks. Wilson found Baldwin on a crossing route for a gain of 24 yards that took Seattle right on SF's 10 yard line then they scored on a blow coverage on Turbin who received a swing pass out of the shotgun for the 1st TD of the game. Seattle's defense continue to play great and Wilson invented a magic under pressure to let TE Moeaki receive a soft pass after the pocket collapse for a great gain of 63 yards right to the SF 1 yard line but they didn't capitalyzed that great play failing to enter in the endzone due to a great goaline stand by the 9ers defense who has been so good inside to force Wilson to pass 2 times with bad results, Haushka made a 20 FG to give them a 10 point lead. Again Seattle's defense stop SF's offense and shown that they didn't find the key to open Seahawks defense to big plays able to keep the èass rushers away from Kaep, Turbin received again on similar pass who gave him the TD earlier and he got another big play but once again 9ers defense played great the shor yardage situations and limited Seattle to just another FG. SF's special teams went so closed to block Ryan's punt because he lost the handle of the football, all this happened near to the Seattle's endzone but somehow he has been able to regain the possession and kick away the ball, the 9ers tried to return the ball but Ricardo Lockette forced the fumble and let his teamates gain the possession of the football. 9ers defense continue to play outstanding and even thanks to a silly penalty on Lynch they stop Seahawks offense again. At the end of the 1st half Keap stats and all SF's offense one have been embarassing for a team who want to compete for the SB, they have been shutout at home in the first half and they've never been able to be dangerous.
The 2nd half started with the Seahawks in possession of the ball and they mached down the field this time running the bal with both Lynch and Turbin using their size, Seattle once again fall short of the endzone due to a penalty (a doubtful one for a pick in the endzone who canceled a Seahawks TD pass), by the way they scored other 3 points with an Haushka FG. The 9ers found their 1st 3 points of the game with a Dawson's 40 yards FG but they didn't arrive to kick it because of their offense but because Seahawks defense committed too many penalties who facilitated  Kaepernick's work so much. Seattle re-estabilished their 16 point lead in the following drive with a 47 yards Haushka's FG.
Seattle's defense seemed to have unlimited energies and rotating players in their front 7 they kept up yhe pressure on Kaep who missed another time the target and got pick off again by Sherman on Seattle's 31 yard line. Sherman 2nd interception of the game has been the K.O. play because after that Seattle run the ball well and chew the mojority of the time.
The 49ers have been booed with good reasons by their own fans, their offense is not even close to be a playoffs one and with all the potential they have made this situation even more disappointing. The absences on the defensive side have been fill in with good success especially by rokiie MLB Borland who is having a surprising season.
The Seahawks looked totally different to the ones wholost in KC few weeks ago, their defense returned to play great after a very very slow start of the season, everything or at least the most part of their success on defense depends of the pressure that they can put with the front 7 even to let their very good CBs be awesome CBs, all of this avoid to give opposite QBs to have the necessary time to wait their WRs get free from the pressure coverage 1 on 1 outside. On offense Seattle continue to improve, Wilson is more accurate and he takes better decisions with the huge help of the powerful Marshawn Lynch who tired every defense out to give the possibility to Wilson to scramble and be effective even on rushing the football. My MVP trophy goes to the entire Seahawks defense and in particulary to Rishard Sherman who confermed himself a 9ers killer.


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