It was a wild game and it was far closer than any Seattle fan would have guessed it would be. With the Seahawks trailing for most of the game, it looked like the Seahawks were prime for another disappointing loss. With six minutes remaining in the game, Leonard Weaver muscled the ball into the endzone to give the Seahawks a 5-point lead.

With the Seahawks leading and the Rams depending on Gus Frerotte to lead them to victory, most anybody would feel safe with a lead that required the Rams to drive the length of the field for a touchdown. Alas, I was still uneasy. It felt like one of those games.

One the ensuing possession, the Rams went three-and-out and were forced to punt. Now I started to feel good. All the Seahawks need were a few yards and a Josh Brown field goal. No problem, right? The Seattle offense moved the ball down the field with relative ease until they got around the Rams’ 33 yard line. Instead of sticking to their “pass first” offense, Seattle decided to had the ball off to Mo Morris three straight times. The net result of those three handoffs was a pitiful one yard gain. With Josh Brown facing a 52-yard field goal, that feeling of doubt started to creep back into my throat.

Brown missed wide right, but I couldn’t really blame him. I was blaming the play calling. At this point the momentum had shifted back towards the St. Louis Rams. The Rams didn’t waste any time moving it down the field, in part due to a 24-yard pass interference call on Deon Grant. On third-and-one, Frerotte gained two yards, setting the Rams up with first-and-goal at Seattle’s four yard line. Now I was really worried. I tried to think back to recent goal line stands the Seahawks had made but none came to mind. Especially agianst Steven Jackson. An incomplete pass on first down, a two yard gain on second, the Seahawks looked like they might keep them out of the endzone. The handoff to Steven on third down placed the ball on the one yard line after Jackson’s outstretched arms were just short of the goal line. I knew it would come down to this, fourth-and-one.

As Frerotte tried to pull away from the pulling guard, he inadvertently mishandled the snap. As Frerotte fell on the ball and Darryl Tapp landed on Frerotte to end the game, I couldn’t help but think back to last year’s Cowboys game. They had done it, they had lucked out. The big difference with yesterday’s game is that I believe that had Frerotte handed the ball off to Jackson, he still would have been stopped. In a way, the Seahawks were robbed of a defense-defining play. In the end, a victory is a victory and the Seahawks are leading the NFC West by two games. Because of that, I’m a content Seattle fan, at least for the week.