Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold....and WET

The Seahawks "Revenge Tour" ended on Sunday when they pounded the Rams 31-16. Shaun Alexander ran all over St. Louis for a total of 165 yards and another ho-hum 3 touchdowns. Can anyone stop this guy? I'm not calling him the next Jim Brown, Walter Payton or Barry Sanders. But watching him run this season, you just get the feeling that we're watching something really special unfold in front of our eyes.

Another question...was Mike Martz calling the Rams plays from his couch in his living room or something? In one of the more bizarre play-calling sequences I've ever seen, the Rams had a 4th and two on the Seahawks 6 yardline. First, they lined up the offence like they were going to go for it...a call that made some sense since they were so deep into Seattle territory. If they made it, they had either a new set of downs or even 6 points on the board. However, that wasn't what they seemed to be doing. Instead, they tried to make the Seahawks defense jump offsides. It was a pointless exercise since when the crowd is as loud as it was the defense are told to just watch the ball for when it's snapped. So the Rams were forced to take a timeout when their little ruse didn't work.

Then things got even stranger than that. For some reason, they decided to fake the field goal and have the kicker...yes, the KICKER...try to roll out to his left and throw a pass. Needless to say, that fell apart at the seams and the Seahawks slipped out of danger.

The Hawks defense was pretty solid all day. For the most part, they stopped Stephen "Ms." Jackson (if you're nasty) in his tracks just about everytime he touched the ball. Of course, as has been proven in the past, the Rams receivers were shaken everytime the Seattle corners played them tight. The only two dissapointments were Marcus Trufant (over-rated in my book. Which hurts me to say since he's a Tacoma boy) being burned for a touchdown by that wussy Tori Holt and the fact that, once again, the defensive brain-trust decided to go back into their stupid dime package at the end of the game. A strategy that almost backfired on them until one of the Rams receivers slipped and fell on an out-&-up route enabling Michael Boulware to make an easy pick inside the Seattle 5 yardline. Other than those two little gripes, the Seahawks looked good...VERY good.

As you know, I don't harp on refs too often. But I did have to wonder if the Back Judge had some cash riding on the game. In the 1st quarter, he allowed one of the Rams d-backs to tackle Bobby Engram as the pass was coming his way. The d-back never even turned around...he just wrapped his arms around Engram and dragged him down. Bobby probably would have caught it, but we'll never know since he had a St. Louis player laying on top of him when the pass flew by. Then, later on in the 3rd quarter, the Seahawks were called for pass interference when Kelly Herndon TURNED AROUND to play the ball and got his feet tangled up with the Rams wide-out. And it wasn't one of those ones where he turned around at the last second...he was looking back at the ball for a good ten yards! A legal play in the rule book (incidental contact), but apparently not to that one official. At least he didn't trip up the Hawks wide receivers like one of them did two years ago in St. Louis (lol).

In other news, Dan brought his new girlfriend along to the game. Her name is Mia and she's a definite upgrade over the last one (lol). She was quite friendly. The only real knock on her is that she's a devout Raiders fan (BOOOO). But don't let that cloud your judgement (haha). Every now and again throughout the game, she would sing me one of the songs she wrote about the Raiders. And I'm telling ya...there were quite a few of them. She told me that she had more, too (lol). She also gave me some helpful advice; "if you ever go to a Raiders game in Oakland, be sure that you bring a knife with you".

Note to self....stay away from Network Associates Coliseum on Raiders game day!!!!!