Apollo
02-03-2014, 06:17 AM
I think if it wasn't for that first botched snap for a safety the game could have been very different. I also think if our players had the mental strength and constitution to put that behind them, then the game could have been very different. I think psychology and mental strength makes up 50% of life, and therefore 50% of sports, maybe even more. What happened to the Broncos was the equivalent of going for a dream job interview and tripping on your way into the office and landing face first in front of your potential employer. After that happens you immediately think, 'This isn't going to be my day'. It's the same as going to dinner first time with the most beautiful woman you've ever seen, and moments after sitting down at the table, you knock your glass of red wine over your beige pants (No this hasn't happened to me :D) . In such a situation you think, 'How am I going to recover this?', 'This is an awful start, what am I going to do?' and so forth. Your mindset is immediately focused on the most negative.
I think you could see that in this in the game. After that botched snap our players looked deflated, as if they'd just lost the game in OT to a field goal. And on the reverse, the Seahawks players celebrated that snap as if they'd already won. Mentally our players had it in their heads that the gods were against them after that moment, and I think it's what cost them. I don't believe for a second the Seahawks are a better team, I think we have just as much talent as them, but the team we saw last night was not the team of the regular season. It was a time who let a blip and the occasion catch-up with them. They conduct themselves like winners, you could see that in their body language', they conducted themselves as a team that knew they were going to get beat.
If we'd scored a TD on our first drive, held Seattle to a 3 and out, and then had that botched snap for a safety happened on the drive after, I really don't think the game would be such a blowout. We'd have the confidence of a score behind us, and know we have the ability to keep going.
In short, the players are mentally weak.
Just my opinion.
I think you could see that in this in the game. After that botched snap our players looked deflated, as if they'd just lost the game in OT to a field goal. And on the reverse, the Seahawks players celebrated that snap as if they'd already won. Mentally our players had it in their heads that the gods were against them after that moment, and I think it's what cost them. I don't believe for a second the Seahawks are a better team, I think we have just as much talent as them, but the team we saw last night was not the team of the regular season. It was a time who let a blip and the occasion catch-up with them. They conduct themselves like winners, you could see that in their body language', they conducted themselves as a team that knew they were going to get beat.
If we'd scored a TD on our first drive, held Seattle to a 3 and out, and then had that botched snap for a safety happened on the drive after, I really don't think the game would be such a blowout. We'd have the confidence of a score behind us, and know we have the ability to keep going.
In short, the players are mentally weak.
Just my opinion.