Is the Green Bay vs. Seattle game one of the biggest meltdowns in NFL history?

Originally posted by crabman82:
any team who trades 3's for 7's deserves to lose. even a 12 point lead isnt much because the other team only needs a td and something to happen to get the ball back. then they can take the lead. they also should have never got fooled on the fake fg. it was such a short fg attempt that you're better off protecting more against the fake and stopping a first down than a chance at trying to block it.

If I am being fair, that sounds a lot like us too, we can never score in the red zone. But, I do agree, McCarthy should have gone for at least one 4th down on the 1-yard line. I am sure someone could have just jumped over the line of scrimmage, speaking of which I kind of miss Anthony Dixon for that exact reason, the dude used to sacrifice his body for us.

Better than Walsh, Montana? Please, you're comparing apples to oranges.... Nothing would make me feel better than to see Seattle get buried by Brady in the Superbowl... There is no way in Hell Brady and Belichick lose another Super Bowl.

Originally posted by vermonator:
Better than Walsh, Montana? Please, you're comparing apples to oranges.... Nothing would make me feel better than to see Seattle get buried by Brady in the Superbowl... There is no way in Hell Brady and Belichick lose another Super Bowl.

Dude, after that "hand of god" BS we saw yesterday, I don't think the Seahawks are losing anything.

Biggest, ever. Worse even than 9ers Dallas '72, when Preston Riley couldn't handle an on-side kick.

There was just as much on the line in the Bills Oilers game (playoff game). What made this comeback more unlikely is it was engineered by the backup Frank Reich. And the Oilers had a HOF QB that had one of the best halves ever in a playoff game the first half (19-22 for 220 yds and 4 TD's). This choke job was unprecedented. Yesterdays game pales in comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_%28American_football%29

the better team did not win yesterday. Green bay outplayed them, and then seattle just got lucky. It happens...i really dont want seattle to win another superbowl but at this point it looks like they are just destined...they play hard and the crazy crap that no one can explain all happens for them right now

The reactions in Green Bay now are massive :

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-am/0ap3000000460730/Most-devastating-loss-in-Packers-history?icampaign=nflcom-cs-homepage-videoswap_generic_nfl

I'd have to say so...as much as that though, I thought McCarthy was just too conservative early. When you have the ball as close to your opponents goal line you have to find a way to put it in the end zone. When they settled for FG's I said I hoped it wouldn't come back to haunt 'em, but it really did. When you have a chance to bury a team, you just have to do it, someway, somehow. I thought McCarthy's play calling wasn't very creative in those situations. Reminded me of Roman's.

All about the So Called Special Teams in this game.

Listening to Ted Robinson this morning on KNBR this morning, found out the fake FG came on a 4th and 10! A 4th and 10 with a 16 point lead with 6 minutes left in 3rd quarter. Inexcusable! That should have been a no brainer to keep the first team defense on the field just to prevent what happened.

Then, Brandon "Buckner" Bostic blowing a simple assignment to block while Jordy Nelson waits for the perfect bounce with open arms. Sick.

I don't think it was as much a meltdown as it was ungodly luck for SEA. Everything that could go wrong in the last three minutes for GB did go wrong. The fake FG for a Touchdown, the two point conversion, the on sides kick, a dropped pass that would have given GB a first down. This all happened in three minutes. Look how many things had to happen for SEA for them to win. There may have been more that I haven't listed. All those breaks just can't happen in so short a time. It's unnatural.

Originally posted by Bluesbro:
There was just as much on the line in the Bills Oilers game (playoff game). What made this comeback more unlikely is it was engineered by the backup Frank Reich. And the Oilers had a HOF QB that had one of the best halves ever in a playoff game the first half (19-22 for 220 yds and 4 TD's). This choke job was unprecedented. Yesterdays game pales in comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_%28American_football%29

That's true, but the crazy way GB lost this game in just a span of 5 minutes is weirder than anything I can ever remember seeing in sports. There have been far more impressive comebacks, but perhaps none more improbable in such a big game.

Originally posted by vaden:

Originally posted by Bluesbro:

There was just as much on the line in the Bills Oilers game (playoff game). What made this comeback more unlikely is it was engineered by the backup Frank Reich. And the Oilers had a HOF QB that had one of the best halves ever in a playoff game the first half (19-22 for 220 yds and 4 TD's). This choke job was unprecedented. Yesterdays game pales in comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_%28American_football%29

That's true, but the crazy way GB lost this game in just a span of 5 minutes is weirder than anything I can ever remember seeing in sports. There have been far more impressive comebacks, but perhaps none more improbable in such a big game.

That 2 point conversion....wtf

Originally posted by elguapo:

Originally posted by trooper49:
It was a game for the ages. That's for sure. I don't think it was a huge meltdown though. SEA was never down by morethan two scores. It came down to the final 5 minutes and SEA offense made the plays that had to be made and GB offense didnt make the plays when they had to be made.

A potato post..
.."I don't think it was a huge meltdown"
"Seattle was never down by more than 2 scores"

Biggest biased Seattle can I've seen, in denial. This was in fact one of the biggest meltdowns ever. And yeah Seattle was down 2 tds WITH 2 2 point conversions that are certainly not gimmies.

Gb dominated without going for fourth and a half a yard at the goal line
Without returning an easy int and sliding instead
Without Recovering an easy onside kick to Ice the game
Without stopping a fake fg
Without Rogers healthy which certainly affected his throws and accuracy
And so on and so on

As soon as I saw him slide after the pic...i just knew something really bad was going to happen. I could not believe that. It looked to me that he had some blockers and could have gotten into easy FG territory. Maybe he thought there was a lot less than 5 minutes left. So f**king stupid either way. Makes me sick. That should have been returned as far as possible, run three times, kick thge FG...and f**k YOU seaturds...season over.

Originally posted by trooper49:
I don't think it was as much a meltdown as it was ungodly luck for SEA. Everything that could go wrong in the last three minutes for GB did go wrong. The fake FG for a Touchdown, the two point conversion, the on sides kick, a dropped pass that would have given GB a first down. This all happened in three minutes. Look how many things had to happen for SEA for them to win. There may have been more that I haven't listed. All those breaks just can't happen in so short a time. It's unnatural.

No. This was the worst meltdown I've ever seen. GB gacked themselves. From the coaches to the every damn player on the packers. How do you not target sherman at all? My god, he had 1 good arm!
Dude intercepts wilson and has 10-15 open yards in front of him and he slides! 20 yards and your in FG range!
Wilson lofts a skyscraper hail mary for a 2 pt conversion and no one from the packers comes an inch from knocking it down. That fake FG was what everyone expected, except the packers.
No, this was choke job. Plain and simple.

Originally posted by maximusdecimus:

Originally posted by trooper49:

I don't think it was as much a meltdown as it was ungodly luck for SEA. Everything that could go wrong in the last three minutes for GB did go wrong. The fake FG for a Touchdown, the two point conversion, the on sides kick, a dropped pass that would have given GB a first down. This all happened in three minutes. Look how many things had to happen for SEA for them to win. There may have been more that I haven't listed. All those breaks just can't happen in so short a time. It's unnatural.

No. This was the worst meltdown I've ever seen. GB gacked themselves. From the coaches to the every damn player on the packers. How do you not target sherman at all? My god, he had 1 good arm!
Dude intercepts wilson and has 10-15 open yards in front of him and he slides! 20 yards and your in FG range!
Wilson lofts a skyscraper hail mary for a 2 pt conversion and no one from the packers comes an inch from knocking it down. That fake FG was what everyone expected, except the packers.
No, this was choke job. Plain and simple.

It was a choke job, no doubt about that. I'm not saying it wasn't. But SEA wins games like this all the time. With incredibly lucky breaks. It's just the shear volume of lucky breaks that SEA gets, time and time again.