From Deseret News archives:
Bills special teams spark 34-10 win over Seattle
"I want to frame it," said Moorman, who threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to defensive end Ryan Denney on a fake field goal to register the NFL-best 158.3 rating.
Perfect, might also come close to describing how everyone else offense, defense and special teams played in helping Buffalo open the regular season with a dominating 34-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
"How about that?" Moorman said. "It's nice to come out of the gate with a decisive win. Hopefully, we made a statement today."
It's early, no doubt. But if the Bills' objective is to end an eight-year playoff drought this season, they got off to a very promising start in blowing out the four-time defending NFC West champions.
It was a victory that began and ended with Buffalo's special teams. Roscoe Parrish returned a punt 63 yards for a touchdown to put the Bills up 14-0 in the second quarter. Then there was kicker Rian Lindell, who recovered a fumble on a kickoff that set up Trent Edwards' 30-yard touchdown pass to Robert Royal 20 seconds after Denney scored.
"That's a good question," Denney said, of how he eluded the Seahawks after making sure to check in with the official. "I was thinking the whole time they were going to see me over there. ... Just a great play and it worked like we wanted it to."
The Seahawks, by comparison, looked completely unprepared.
"We got kicked around pretty good today," said Mike Holmgren, who opened his final season as the Seahawks' head coach. "It's one of those games we're going to learn a painful lesson. But we'll be better next week."
They couldn't have played much worse.
Matt Hasselbeck was rusty after missing most of the preseason with a back injury. He completed only one of his first eight attempts, and finished 17-of-41 for 190 yards, with a touchdown to Nate Burleson and an interception.
Then again, Hasselbeck didn't get much help from a banged-up receiving corps that was minus two starters Deion Branch (knee) and Bobby Engram (shoulder) and then lost Burleson, who left in the third quarter with a left knee injury.
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