Field Gulls
Nothing like ruining a great celebration by having a last-minute misfire in a shootout loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38-35 at Lumen Field. This was supposed to be a party, with the 50th Season celebration game in front of Seahawks Legends of the past. Seattle was even donning the fan-favorite throwback jerseys for the occasion.
It looked like the Seattle Seahawks would pull it out and give everyone something to cheer about.
Up until the last drive of the first half, Seattle was tripping over themselves. They righted the ship, however, and had consecutive scoring drives to close the first half and open the second to go ahead 14-13. Then, the rest of the game was a whirlwind of ties and lead changes with almost no defense being played. The Seahawks went for it on 4th and 2, and Sam Darnold found Tory Horton to put Seattle up 35-28 with 3:18 remaining. That should’ve been enough to feel confident, but the Seahawks “defense” wasn’t up to the task all day, giving up a touchdown drive in two minutes. Seattle’s offense had one more shot, but Darnold’s pass deflected off a helmet for an interception, setting Tampa Bay up in field goal range. That was all she wrote, with the Buccaneers winning on a walk-off field goal by Chase McLaughlin.
Seahawks Droppings
I would call out how bad the defense was at defending over the middle, but that would assume that there were defenders in the middle of the field. How many times were there wide open Buccaneer receivers running across the middle with no resistance? It was just a godawful, putrid performance by the Seahawks defense today.
