Tedric Thompson was embarrassed. He went big and failed. He gave living representation to Henry David Thoreau’s assertion that “The mass of men are stupid bunglers!” But from the moment Thompson whiffed I felt a strong need to defend him. It seemed to me that Thompson had failed honestly in an unwise, even vainglorious attempt. While another Seahawk had born equal if not more responsibility for the failure, but had escaped blame. If that is true and why that might be true is the subject of this week’s post.
Let’s look at that drive. ESPN’s win probability model gave Seattle a 77.