Seahawks lose 24-7 To Bucs: The Matt Hasselbeck Show

The title fits perfectly with the play of the Seattle Seahawks today. Seahawks lose 24/7 all day long, and it's headlined by the "Matt Hasselbeck Show".

Over the last few weeks, Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has looked worse than any quarterback in Seahawks history with his inaccuracy, inconsistency and just downright horrendous play.

In the last three weeks including today's game against the Tampa Bay Bucs Hasselbeck is 101/115 for 701 yards, 4 TD's and 5 Int's (four today).

Now overall, other than the five interceptions you might think those stats look pretty good. Think again, with Hasselbeck overthrowing wide open receivers, not making smart decisions with the football and being very unstable throughout this entire season.

Today Hasselbeck accounted for all five of the Seattle Seahawks turnovers, that's completely unacceptable for any veteran quarterback, which includes Hasselbeck.

Hasselbeck threw four interceptions and lose one fumble.

However the offensive line does not get the blame for the lose. It's all on
Hasselbeck. The offensive line did not allow hurry, sack or hit until midway through the third quarter. Hasselbeck had at least five seconds on each throw he made and still airmailed the ball at least 10+ times.

For a "franchise quarterback" that's just unacceptable.

The Seahawks are in an obvious rebuilding process that is looking to take longer and longer with each passing week.

Let's take a look and see how the Seahawks lose to a 1-12 Tampa Bay Bucs team.

First quarter:

Second quarter:

SEA- 29 yard touchdown pass from Hasselbeck to Carlson (8 plays, 85 yards and 4:09 TOP)

TB- Barth 25 yard FG (5 plays, 15 yards and: 37 TOP)

Third quarter:

TB-Barth 45 yard FG (10 plays, 50 yards and 6:16 TOP)

TB- 22 yard touchdown pass from Freeman to Williams (1 play, 22 yards)

TB- 6 yard touchdown pass from Freeman to Ward (9 plays, 37 yards and 4:30 TOP)
Fourth quarter:

TB-Barth 39 yard FG

Final Score: Tampa Bay 24 Seahawks 7

Final Stats for both teams:

SEA- Matt Hasselbeck: 27/46 for 256 yards, 1 TD and 4 Int's

TB- Josh Freeman: 16/26 for 205 yards, 2 TD's and 1 Int.

SEA- Julius Jones+Justin Forsett: 21 carries for 125 yards

TB- Derrick Ward+Cadillac Williams: 31 carries for 133 yards

SEA- John Carlson: 7 receptions for 86 yards and a TD reception

SEA- TJ Houshmandzadeh: 7 receptions for 73 yards

TB- Kellen Winslow: 6 receptions for 93 yards

TB- Sammie Stroughter: 4 receptions for 46 yards

SEA- David Hawthorne: 10 tackles

TB- Barrett Ruud: 8 tackles

The Seattle Seahawks will be at Green Bay next week in what is sure to be another blow out. A major note for the Seahawks is their head coach calling out the entire team this past week and the entire team toned him out which is not a good sign for the man who has a choke hold on this franchise, CEO Tod Leiwke.

Mora will make more changes this week for sure. Hopefully benching Matt Hasselbeck for rookie Mike Teel will be one of those moves. Teel can open up the offense and really spread it around.

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Wyoming, Fresno State Kickoff the Bowl Season With a Bang

Tonight finally marked the start of the 2009 College Football Bowl season with Wyoming (6-6) facing Fresno State (8-4). The bowl season started off with the New Mexico, in its fourth season as a bowl game.

Wyoming squeaked into a bowl game getting just enough wins, six, to be bowl eligible. They finished fifth in the MWC with a 4-4 record and 6-6 overall.

Fresno State, on the other hand, had more than enough wins to become bowl eligible at 8-4 overall. The Bulldogs finished third in the WAC behind Boise State and Nevada with a 6-2 conference record.

Coming into the New Mexico Bowl Fresno State were the easy favorites to win but predictions don't always come true.

Ryan Matthews, the number one running back in the nation didn't get a chance to hoist the Heisman trophy in New York so he took what he could and that was the New Mexico Bowl bid.

On the other side of the field Wyoming was coming into the game with a talented freshman quarterback in Austyn Carta-Samuels from San Jose California.

Wyoming started the scoring off with an electric 68 yard run by Freshman running back Alvester Alexander to give Wyoming the early 7-0 lead in the first quarter.

Fresno State strikes back early in the second quarter with running back Ryan Matthews capping off a seven play, 51 yard drive with a four yard touchdown run to tie the game a 7-7.

Wyoming's Austyn Carta-Samuels had by far his best game in his short career and he capped off the 15 play, 95 yard drive with a 21 yard touchdown pass to Greg Bolling to give Wyoming the 14-7 lead.

However Fresno State quarterback Ryan Colburn wanted a piece of the QB pie and he finished off a 10 play, 65 yard drive with a 10 yard touchdown pass to Jamel Hamler tying the game at 14-14 heading into half time.

Coming out of halftime Fresno State fired out of the cannon with a 43 yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Chastin West to Jamel Hamler to make it 21-14 Fresno State.

Wyoming kicker Ian Watts nailed home a 40yd FG to trim the deficit to 21-17 late in the third quarter.

Fresno State Junior running back Ryan Matthews was at it again and capitalized off the Carta-Samuels interceptions with a five yard touchdown run to make it 28-17 Fresno State.

However Wyoming wouldn't just go down from there. The talented freshman QB Austyn Carta-Samuels rebounded from is INT and capped of a seven play, 72 yard drive with an 11 yard touchdown pass to David Leonard and converted on the two point conversation to make it 28-25 Fresno State.

By far the best job of clock management I've ever seen in College Football was capped off by Wyoming kicker Ian Watts who nailed threw a 37 yard field goal, capping off a 19 play, 54 yard drive that took almost eight minutes off the clock.

Fresno State played it safe, taking the knee and sending the game into OT.

In OT Fresno State failed four times to get a touchdown with the ball on the three inch yard line, and yes that's three inches, not three yards.

Wyoming couldn't capitalize on the great goal line stand as Ian Watts missed a 40yd FG with the ball right in the middle of the hash marks, and a clean hold. It was just a clear miss.

Now what's any freshman’s goal? To make the biggest play in the game that matters most in your teams season right. Yes, and that's exactly what Wyoming Freshman Austyn Carta-Samuels completed a 13 yard touchdown pass to David Leonard, Samuels third touchdown pass of the night.

Fresno State couldn't get anything going and failed on a fourth down play that sealed the game and gave Wyoming the 35-28 win in 2OT.

The star of the game was by far freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels who finished the game 17/31 for 201 yards, 3 TD's and 1 INT.

The Bowl win moved Wyoming to 7-6 on the season and dropped Fresno State to 8-5.

What an electric way to kickoff an exciting 2009 College Football Bowl season.