And the Skins hating continues...

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by dgack

Everyone's hung up on the 120 yards, but the game stats tell a different story... we outgained them on the ground, 95-75.

The only real difference in offenses is, that Williams left the middle open all game long, to prevent the depleted corners from getting burned by a quick Galloway strike. And with the exception of the break on the dropped/reffed Shepherd TD, it worked, all game long.

On the other side of the ball, we were playing classic conservative Gibbs football with a lead. Of course they Tampa put up some yards, they had to be aggressive, and that's evidenced by the almost twice as many passes thrown.

The real reason these writers are having a field day with the 120 yards is because they're trying to portray the Skins as this broken down van rolling up to the start line, racing against a Ferrari. We've got no offense, and Seattle's starting O is basically the entire Pro Bowl roster. What a story!

This is nothing but good for us. It's bulletin board material for our defense who are going to come out angry, and it puts all this pressure on Seattle to come out and just smoke us because we don't deserve to be on the same field as them. And that has a way of backfiring on you.

Great point about our defensive gameplan. We were short our best corner, lost a D-line anchor, and surrendered our starting free safety to idiocy. Of course something was going to be open to the Bucs. We chose 7 yard routes over the middle - not a bad choice, given the outcome.