The Seahawks just finished what I assumed was going to be a brutal five-game stretch. They were 6-4 at the time, and I figured that if they went 3-2 in those games and beat the Rams, they'd be 10-6 and have a shot at a playoff slot. The five-game stretch WAS brutal, but for the 'Hawks opponents instead.
They have incentive to beat St Louis: not only would winning that game give them a great shot at the one seed, but the Rams beat them 28-26 in a game where they humiliated them twice on special teams, including the supreme embarrassment of tricking them into covering the wrong guy on a punt, leading to a 90-yard TD. I think they had this game circled on the calendar no matter what happened in the interim, and having the opportunity to lock up home field advantage is the icing on the cake.
If they can do that, I am hopeful that they can win a second straight title. Hope Marshawn has another 'quake or two left in him.
They have incentive to beat St Louis: not only would winning that game give them a great shot at the one seed, but the Rams beat them 28-26 in a game where they humiliated them twice on special teams, including the supreme embarrassment of tricking them into covering the wrong guy on a punt, leading to a 90-yard TD. I think they had this game circled on the calendar no matter what happened in the interim, and having the opportunity to lock up home field advantage is the icing on the cake.
If they can do that, I am hopeful that they can win a second straight title. Hope Marshawn has another 'quake or two left in him.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
