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This edition of the Moonlight Graham award is late due to the holiday...no not Columbus Day...the first observance of the twice annual "Seahawks Kick Ram Ass" Holiday!

My only disappointments of the game are that Tory "Big Lame" Holt caught a TD pass against us, and that the failing health of Mad Martz will hang over this victory as a potential excuse. However, I loved EVERYTHING else about the game, which provided many great moments, and with so many of our starters out, or knocked out, many good choices for this award.

I'd love to give it to Joe Jurevicius, as dude stepped up HUGE when needed, with a career day in admittedly the hardest place of any for him to play. From the day he signed, I figured Joe and Matt would become close, and then after learning that he too lost a son, there seems to be an eerie similarity between he and the departed Trent Dilfer, Matt's previous confidante. However, JJ already received every accolade and honorable mention available for his performance on Sunday, and unfortunately, guys with Super Bowl rings are ineligeable for Moonlight Graham Awards!

If I hadn't seen the game, my boy Kelly Herndon might be a good candidate for this week's MGA, as he tied Lofa Tatupu for the team lead with 9 tackles. However, as anyone who did see the game would tell you, that's now knows as an "Antrel Rolle" stat, which means that Herndon picked up all those tackles because his guy was open all day, or he was caught out of position. Now if he had CAUGHT that sure interception in the endzone (like his fellow 9-tackle performer did) it may have been a different story.

I really wanted to give the award to Jerheme Urban this week, because a dude who had his bags packed and was ready to leave town on the very day he gets called back up by the Seahawks seems to embody everything about the Moonlight Graham Award. However, even though he did make a key downfield block on Shaun Alexander's second TD scamper, you got to catch the balls thrown your way and get into the official stat sheet for the game to walk home with contributor iron.

No, the co-winners of this week's Moonlight Graham award are none other than Jordan Babineaux and J.P. Darche, because these are two guys who NOBODY would be talking about, if it weren't for the forced fumble and recovery on the final punt, which allowed us to ice the game.

Let's face it, as Seahawks fans, we've seen it too many times before. The offense plays well enough for the game to be a blowout, but it's not. Then the offense gets too conservative, and has to give the ball back to the opponent, and ANYTIME left on the clock seems to be too much time to preserve the victory. And then even when the defense may step up and force a fumble or snag an interception, something bad seems to happen, like a 47 yard field goal doinking off the left upright. And that's even BEFORE taking into account that we were playing THE RAMS...IN ST. LOSER...where they have a 40-9 home winning record.

But not this week. Not this game. And not this Year!

Babineaux raced down and in making the tackle, forced the pivotal fumble, and then long snapper J.P. Darche had the presence of mind to drop on the ball and cover it up. Two first downs later we all were treated to the glorious site of seeing our offense taking the knee to salt away the victory, instead of scrambling in an all out red-alert in attempt to drive the length of the field with no timeouts in hopes of scoring to tie! (as it seems we're always trying to do in these big road games)

So enjoy your time in the moonlight this week Jordan and J.P., and tell the rest of your mates on Special Teams, that they too could be basking in the glow of an MGA, except for giving up that opening game kick return!