Sometimes the reasons for a victory or a defeat are complicated. Or, at least, sometimes, we want to make them complicated, especially at the beginning of the season when we are still trying to make sense of what it is we have before us.
Saturday was not that. This game was really simple. Seattle came out aggressively, and with a plan, and it executed. Then, the Sounders executed the Rapids, like a spaghetti western that opens with a shot panning to a blindfolded man in front of a firing squad.
Colorado, on the other hand, came out flat and looked shaky from the get-go.