> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:53:25 -0800, Stephen Trapani
> nowhere.net> wrote:
>

>>Ed wrote:

>>> Stephen Trapani wrote:

>

>>>> These Seahawks can hang with the best team in the league; would have
>>>> beat them except for a fluke play.

>

>>>> This team is contending for the Superbowl this season. Anyone who
>>>> writes them off is a moron. Time to get back on board!!

>

>>>> Stephen

>

>>>> (what, I had to change "pussies" to "pansies" to get past some kind of
>>>> filter??????????)

>

>>> I'm not sure I know what "on board" means. But what I learned from this
>>> game was that the Seahawks are still making the kind of mistakes that
>>> lose games.

>

>>> Anything's possible, including a playoff run back to the SB. But anyone
>>> who can't see that this team has problems, or who thinks that talking
>>> about those problems is "writing them off", is the real moron.

>

>>But almost everyone was saying the Chargers were way better than the
>>Seahawks and that the Seahawks would get dominated by the Chargers. Why
>>didn't you learn that that wasn't true? The Seahawks basically dominated
>>the game, didn't you notice?

>
> Almost nobody here recalls when I declared last week that the Hawks
> would give their best performance of the season against the Chargers.
> I knew the defense especially would play with lots of wounded pride.
>
> True they came up short at the very end. But I knew the defense would
> play extra hard. Peterson and Tatupu played _great_ yesterday, and the
> secondary for the most part played lights out, but for that
> major-league lapse at the end, when we were running our Pervert
> Defense. The defense overall has nothing to be ashamed about.
>
> I can't say the same thing for Deion Branch...grrrrrrr the less I say
> about what we gave up in draft picks to acquire him, the lower my
> blood pressure will be...