W4 Washington Struggle Cheeses past Seattle

[deadmeow]

Both teams kept trading scores in the first half. Washington struggle cheesed on a 4th down to tie it at 21 all late in the 1st half.

Seattle drove down to the Washington 5 yardline. However Wash had all 3 timeouts with 45 seconds, and Seattle called 2 running plays to milk out as much clock as possible.

After a big loss, and missed 3rd down, Seattle calls out the field goal team, but Washington calls a timeout. Seattle reconsiders, because of the angle, and a Cross pass on 4th down is narrowly missed. Remains 21 all at half.

In the 2nd half both teams started trading scores, however, Seattle fell behind, when Shawn Alexander failed to convert a 3rd down, by immediately running out of bounds(automatically) after catching a screen pass. 4th down conversion at mid field failed.

Washington scored on their next possession and took a 35-21 lead. Seattle answered and made it 35-28. Washington winning by 7 in field goal range, chose to go for it on 4th down, instead of kicking, and managed another struggle cheese TD, and led 42-28. Seattle had played great defense, hitting the streaking WR and popping the ball on, on about 4 plays during that drive.

Seattle now with about 1:00 needed a score and onside kick. A quick strike down field put Seattle at mid field. The next play was complete for a huge gain, down to the Washington 2 yard line, but when hit, the man fumbled and Washington dove on the ball in the end zone, and escaped with a struggle cheese win over the hapless Seahawks.

Washington 42 Seattle 28

[RealCanes91]

THE TRUTH

LOL @ Jeff's post.

How is it "struggle cheese" when I score a td on every possesion, didnt get stopped once, and forced you into 8 4th downs?

You were the one who struggled.

It was 14-14 late in the 2nd as Seattle tried to milk clock all game and keep the score low. Seattle tried to get cute at the goaline and run out the half but Sean Taylor got a sack then on 3rd down a tackle for loss on Shawn Alexander as Jeff's cheese strategy of "pitch and run around forever" didnt work. Jeff went for it instead of kicking and threw the ball out of the back of the endzone where no one could get it.

14-14 half.

Washington got ball and on the 2nd play Portis caught a 75 yd TD, 21-14 Wash. Seattle would tie it 21-21, and Washington would go ahead 28-21.

Start 4th, Seattle faces 4th and 12 at the 50. They try throwing a screen pass to Alexander BEHIND THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE (on 4th and 12), but since they were so close to the sideline the pass was a terrible blunder and Alexander caught it and was forced out by his momentum. Seeing as he was 15 yds from the 1st down anyways he wouldnt have even come close to getting it before being tackled by 3 Wash defenders who were between the 1st down line and him.

Good call there, Jeffy. Usually when you need 12 yards you want to throw the ball..GASP..at least 12 yards!

Washington scored with ease to make it 35-21. Seattle responded and cut it to 35-28.

Wash drives to the 50 with 3 min left, and then Seattle almost gets lucky. 1st down: Portis drops a 50 yard td pass that bonks off his shoulder pads with no defenders in sight. 2nd down: Cooley catches a pass down to the 10, but then it comes out after a weak hit. 3rd down: Moss catches a pass down to the 5 but also cant hang onto it. 3 straight tds dropped. 4th down Washington goes. They werent in FG range contrary to what Jeff says, and since their receivers were running wide open and Jeff had no answers, why not go? The worst that happens is Jeff stops me, scores to tie it, and then I get ball last and I win. So I go for it, and sure enough Cooley is running WIIIIIDE OPEN and I throw it to him for a 50 yard TD on 4th down.

Wash 42-28. Seattle gets ball one final time and after a long completion they fumbled and Wash recovered, and time expired a play later.

Washington had ball 6 times and scored 6 tds, hardly a "struggle".

6-0

[deadmeow]

I had to stop reading after my imaginary "Eight 4th downs" hahahha. I had two, and so did you. I was stopped by the clock at the end of the first half after getting to the 5, and a goaline fumble at the end of the 2nd half.

The only time you "stopped" me, was when I threw the NEAR HB SCREEN pass, to the HB, and he automatically went out of bounds, instead of picking up an easy first.

STRUGGLE CHEESE

Good teams in Madden91 score on every possession, or all but one. Madden91 San Fran, Houston, Denver, Cinc, LA, all those teams have a 15 WR and a TITLE, and thats how games work with high powered 15 WR offenses. Its nothing new, you didn't invent scoring every possession.

The only exception came when playing a top notch defense like KC or Minn. You can glance at all the scores in the archives and see what I am talking about. It comes down to forcing a fumble, or getting an interception, since it is too easy to convert 4th downs with a high powered 15 WR offense.