Seattle Eagle said:
Not the result anyone wanted but the Eagles played surprisingly well, especially on defense. Fresno was a 37.5 point favorite in this one. At the very least the Eags showed that they're a team that you can't look past.
Man, losing sucks!
But I agree with what you wrote. If there's one thing I'm seeing from the team this year that was embarrassingly absent last year, it's the willingness to play HARD. If we can just get to playing WELL and HARD, we can pull it together this season. We played well at times yesterday, but early on, we looked a bit clueless. There's no reason to blame referees, but those two personal fouls penalties in OT were dubious at best... downright terrible at worst. Refs shouldn't be throwing mystery flags in an OT, let alone doing it twice for the most marginal of issues.
I guess we're where most expected, 0-2 heading into must-wins. The intangibles are in our favor. We haven't been rotten and we have a team that looks to be improving quite a lot. It'll be on the coaching staff to keep spirits up, because it's still all in front of us. Win the next two- and both are very winnable if we keep getting better- and that game against Idaho suddenly becomes a monster of huge importance.
