Sunday 13th October 2019

Browns 28 Seahawks 32 

A game that began with a 20 mph wind blowing off Lake Erie was dangerously close to simply being blown off course most of the day.

But as has become the custom for the Seahawks this season, quarterback Russell Wilson remained a rock of stability when all around him often seemed total chaos.

After the Browns took the lead following a bizarre sequence of penalties, replay reviews and questionable officials’ calls, Wilson led a nine-play, 79-yard drive that proved to be the winning points in a 32-28 win over the Browns.

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Chris Carson scored from a yard out with 3:30 left to put Seattle back up after the Browns had taken a 28-25 lead with 9:02 remaining.

Baker Mayfield then threw his third interception of the game on the next series a pass behind receiver Dontrell Hilliard that instead went to K.J. Wright — and the Seahawks completed a comeback from 13 points down in the first half.

In fact, there were times early when it was the Seahawks who seemed on the verge of getting blown out as the Browns took an early 20-7 lead and had 302 yards at halftime.

But Seattle then took advantage of Cleveland mistakes to score 18 unanswered points and take the lead heading into the fourth quarter.

The Browns retook it on a 3-yard run by Nick Chubb that came on a series after the Browns had been stopped at the goal line — and after a strange set of events in which the Browns threw a challenge flag to see if they’d scored a touchdown as they appeared to be running for a touchdown.

But a short Seattle punt gave the Browns the ball right back and Chubb’s TD had the crowd rocking.

That just maybe made what happened next harder to take for the long-suffering Browns fans, who watched Wilson march Seattle down the field for the winning score.

Wilson’s two touchdowns give him 14 for the year, and he still does not have an interception this season. Wilson also ran for a 16-yard TD in the first quarter.

It was the 30th time in 130 regular season or playoff games that Wilson led a fourth-quarter or overtime comeback to give Seattle a win, and already the third in five games this season.

Seattle is now 5-1 for only the third time in its history (2003 and 2013 the others) and has a chance to take over first place in the NFC West if the Rams beat the 49ers later Sunday afternoon.

The Seahawks were fortunate to be behind just 20-18 at halftime, as the Browns gained 302 yards and were forced to punt just once on seven possessions — and that due mostly to a dropped pass.

But while the Seattle defense wasn’t stout, it was at least opportunistic with two interceptions stopping Cleveland drives in Seahawks territory — one by Tre Flowers at the 39 when Mayfield threw the ball right to him, and another by Tedric Thompson in the end zone, where he dived to corral a pass that had been tipped by Shaquill Griffin.

Before Thompson’s pick, Cleveland appeared poised to take at least a 23-12 lead but possibly 27-12 late in the first half.

Instead, the Seahawks took over at their own 12 and used their hurry-up offense to quickly drive the length of the field for a TD with 27 seconds left on a 17-yard pass from Wilson to Jaron Brown.

Cleveland blitzed on the play and Wilson was hit as he threw by linebacker Joe Schobert. But his pass hit Brown right in stride in the right corner of the end zone.

A run by C.J. Prosise on the two-point play was stopped.

The game began disastrously for Seattle, when Cleveland’s Hilliard returned the opening kickoff 74 yards to set up a quick Browns touchdown. Seattle responded with its own quick score on a 16-yard run by Wilson.

The Browns then had two long drives of 69 and 92 yards to take a 20-7 lead early in the second quarter, with the game appearing on the verge of being an unlikely rout for the home team. Seattle then blocked a punt to set up a field goal and had the two interceptions and it was somehow a two-point game at the break.

And when it was over, Seattle had its fourth win this season by four points or less one win for each of the turnovers committed by the Browns on the day.

 

 

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Saturday 12th October 2019

 

 

 

Friday 11th October 2019

After The Goldrush

Neil Young

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming,
And the archer split the tree.

There was a fanfare blowing to the sun
That was floating on the breeze.

Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.

I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky.

There was a band playing in my head,
And I felt like getting high.

I was thinking about what a friend had said.
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a friend had said.
I was hoping it was a lie.

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun.
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones.

All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.

Flying Mother Nature’s silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature’s silver seed to a new home.

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Bob Dylan

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

And what will you do now, my blue-eyed son?
And what will you do now, my darling young one?
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten
Where black is the colour and none is the number
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking
But I’ll know my song well before I start singing

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

 

Thursday 10th October 2019

 

 

Wednesday 9th October 2019

 

 

Tuesday 8th October 2019

Monday 7th October 2019