No one saw 43-8...but plenty of people saw two or three score wins for the Seahawks, and were shouted down by the "experts" who thought a season of warmup games agaisnt chump defenses was sufficient to beat the Seahawks defense without changing anything up.

A certain Broncos fan that I fished with last week laughed out loud when it was suggested that Peyton Manning will be throwing interceptions if he gets pushed around, and that he will get pushed around because our defense will not allow him to throw the ball in under two seconds all game.

That is, however, exactly how it happened.

The safety on the first play of the game? No one ever sees any safeties coming, and that one was farther out than any other...that's for sure.

Percy Harvin returning a kick for a TD? The Broncos sure saw it coming...they tried to kick it away from him and he still got it and ran it back. The vantage point of the kick during the game was from behind the kicker, and as soon as we saw it was going to be a short kick that bounces to keep Harvin from returning it I was already jumping up and down yelling "Make them pay, Percy!"...and then he did.

Other than Manning being lucky that Clemons tipped that 4th and 2 pass so that he didn't throw another Pick6, the next luckiest thing that happened to the Broncos is that we stopped ourselves on offense a couple of times with penalties, or one or both of those field goals could have been TD's, too. The spot that Carrol challenged in the first half should have probably been a first down, it sure looked like Russell reached the ball several inches farther than they marked it, even after moving it nearly three feet from the terrible spot they first gave him.

This game could have just as easily been 47 or 51 to 8.

Fish on...

Todd