It’s all in the mindset, Seattle Seahawks receiver David Moore would have you believe.
“Every ball that goes up,” he said, “is either mine or nobody’s.”
But rather than rest on his words, Moore had an opportunity to prove that ideology on Sunday. With about three and a half minutes left in Sunday’s eventual 30-27 Seattle victory over the Carolina Panthers, the Seahawks faced a fourth-and-3 from the Panthers’ 35. An incompletion, and Carolina would get the ball back, up 7, with the liberty to run the game into the ground.
Really, an incompletion and the game was over.