Sharkonabicycle
Bipedal Sea Dog
It's refreshing to see a fan of a team that loses blame the refs. Why don't more people do that?
I thought the officiating was okay.... but the NFL had this penciled in for the Bucs to win. Not just Seattle, but flying a West coast team over to London/Germany against an East coast team is fuckin' ridiculous. It's a day loss in comparison not to mention a 6:30 vs. 9:30AM start... unless you're a veteran pilot, your circadian rhythm does not adapt that quick.
NFL wanted their precious Brady merchandise to sell, and Seattle was supposed to be shit this year.. so yah... fuck over Seattle (which is a low market in Europe especially) to sell more Brady/Bucs merch. That's all it was. Yah, the Bucs got a little favorable bias from the refs but I didn't see anything egregious.
That all said, Seattle needs to get Cody Barton off the field asap. I'm fairly annoyed they didn't trade Denver's 2nd pick for Smith... I had the A grade and writeup prepped and everything.... Barton is way off on the angles he's taking, and the first person he comes in contact with either bowls him over or plows right through him. Yah he got a decent number of tackles, but it's always cleanup tackles with him... not making plays.
Regardless, play the game in Tampa or Seattle and willing to bet Seattle wins that game 8-9/10 over Tampa... timezone and travel fucked them over, and NFL knew exactly what they were doing.