The award given to the offensive and defensive players who best slip up the opposition.
If you watched the game and paid any attention at all, this week is really a no brainer on both sides of the ball.
Although there were several very good performances, most notably from Herndon, Scooby and that Bears guy, the awards this week go out to....drum roll please...
On Defense: Joe Tafoya. So Jeb's feet get Hucked up and we here are getting nervous about our depth, then in enters a guy, whom many Seahawks fans (mostly on other sites, that shall remain nameless) had nothing but desparing remarks about. Tafoya, did more than any other defensive player to be a disruptive force and he played as if he had something to prove, (and he did, he was playing for a job), and in my opinion, all but ensured himself a spot on this roster.
On Offense: Leonard Weaver. Can there be any doubts about this guy left? He has absolutely played brilliantly throughout this entire preseason, but he saved his best performance for yesterdays game. I really don't need to elaborate at all if you watched the game, he simply went above and beyond any expectations any one could have had for this 250lb. Fullback.
Take a bow Tafoya and Weaver you earned it!
And now for something completely different (I had to get in a Monty Python reference), a couple comments.
First, Hass once again looked in midseason form, and the work that he and Jerramy Stevens have put in together this offseason, really showed on that perfectly placed pass in the endzone. That pass could not have been thrown any better, and even better, Stevens flat out beat a safety in a footrace to the goaline. WHAT A PLAY!
So far this preseason I believe that we have had several questions answered, it appears that when our starting DT's are in the game, we shut down the run, this is HUGE. It also appears that our recieving corps is better than anyone could have anticipated, and Matt Hasselbeck may very well be on the verge of greatness.
Unfortunately, there is still one very big question mark that we are left with; why is it, that on third and long or fourth and long we cannot stop anyone?
All season last year, my biggest complaint was that we had an easier time stopping teams when it was third and short than when it was third and long, why oh why is that the case? It seems that there is some kind of mental let down that happens in these situations, that still hasn't been corrected. I really don't care that we lost the game, the final score in a preseason game is meaningless, what bothers me is the way we lost it. Just as much as the drops that have plagued us the last couple of seasons, this mental letdown in important situations, has ravaged this defense. In my mind, Ray Rhodes has some splainin' to do, this problem should have been rectified, and yet the symptoms of this illness linger.
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