Brunell

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Key stat for today, Brunell was 11-for-15 for 138 yards on 3rd downs. I don't care who you are, that's big.

No way I can dispute that, I have alway's maintained the key to a great QB is his ability to make a play on third down and keep the drive moving, I would say Brunell was outstanding today in that department.

The problem he has is he waits to long to make his throws, he has recievers open and he's still holding the ball, I noticed on the replay early in the game when he hit Cooley about 25 yards downfield, Cooley was wide open as soon as he made his break but Brunell waited allowing the defense to catch up, so instead of a real big gain and possible TD, we just had a 25 yd gain, right after that the analist started to make those same statements.

He also made a poor throw to [ I believe it was Patten ] on a deep ball late in the game when he had badly burned the corner, but instead of throwing it towards the middle of the field away from the saftey, he threw it directly to the reciever which alowed the saftey to come over and bust up the pass, all he had to do was lead the reciver away from the saftey and it's an easy TD, it's things like that, that keep teams in games, Seattle shouldn't have been remotly close late in the game.