The 800lb Gorilla Speaks-
I expected a season-ticket holder to get this thread started, but it may be a little too-early for them. Coming from the perspective of a fan of a 3-19 football team from the past two-years, I know a little something about different levels of losing. My personal rating would place this on the level 3 out of level 5 (losing to the Raiders during MNF).This was a game in early October, really September on the road with an offense that hasn't played a consistent 60 minutes yet this season. You did some decent things early by dictating the pace of your offense and having the Defense react, but let the game get away and allowed the Lovie to dicate the rest of the game with the pace of his D. These are the critical errors you can't make against well-coached teams on the road in The League. Is this the end of the high-level Seattle run? Well, if they continue to go on the road and believe they can just put the jersey's on and they'll magically put up 28pts before halftime. They have to remember that they still have something to prove to the nation, and last night didn't help their argument.
Is there anything we can take from last night's game? Can this loss be placed solely on the shoulders of a few coaches/players? Is Seattle going to be able to win on the road in big games this year or a potential rematch with Chi-town in January?
I'd like a little Goose breakdown of what Chicago did on Defense for the rest of us laymen (I think I have an idea, but I'd like the expert to chime in). What can we do on Defense and Offense during the bye week to get prepped for the remaining 75% of the season.
Remember hometown fans, Seattle had too many holes to go 16-0, the benefit that I see is that they have a milepost in which to improve upon in the next 12 games, in order to be prepared for their next big challenge.It still burns a little. Ok, a lot.
posted by Jimbo at 10:13 AM
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Well, like at football game, turnovers can kill you. And when you throw 2 INT's in consecutive series... leading to 10 pts against an offense that really isn't very good, but is decent when playing with a lead (sticking with the run, passing only when Desmond Clark comes in)... well, you'll go behind 14 pts versus a defense that is the best in the league.
I still think come the playoffs Seattle will take it to Chicago if the Bears can get past their NFC semifinal matchup... but Hasselbeck needs to cut down on the dumb throws. Of course, it's the Bears DEF playing at home in Soldier Field. And it's a Seahawks team playing without their "stud" MVP runningback. Both factors will be different come January with Shaun running in Sodo.
well...that being said 2.0...I'm not sure I see the Monsters of the Midway losing more than 2 or 3 games (barring Grossman staying healthy the entire see...big 'if')...so that means the Hawks only have room to lose one maybe two more games if they want to host a playoff game vs. the Bears in the January...
I understand that is a lot of speculation with 12 games remaining...but, that is the worst result of this game...the tie-breaker and pressure Seattle now has on itself to utilize the 12th Man...
I agree that I'm still not that impressed with Grossman, but he does manage the offense well...and stayed away from making the big turnover last night...I think it's important to get him on the road during the playoffs and force him to win the game for the Bears...although each week that offense looks like it's gaining confidence and big 'MO
I'll give some breakdown tomorrow after I watch some of the tivo'd game.
nice...I can see Goose dimming the lights and bringing out the white board to give the Gosslings a break down of the Cover 2 done right in the film room...
disappointed. i didn't bother with the 4th quarter last night. i'm a realist.
disappointed. i didn't bother with the 4th quarter last night. i'm a realist.
neither did the Seahawks...
I saw a lot of things I have problems with. I think I saw a stat in the 3rd quarter: Trufant, thrown at 4 times and allowed 4 completions. Trufant and Herdon looked terrible.
I think there was a lot asked of the defense. It seemed for a while that the average starting field position for the Bears was about the Hawks 35. Now, they limited the Bears to a few field goals, but eventually they broke. At the spots the defense was at they bent a few times but eventually they broke.
Also this was a bad game for the O-line. Matty H should not be sacked 5 times and he should have a few more seconds to find an open man.
Burrelson hasn't done anything. All he is getting paid to do is catch balls and he can't do that. I think this game was an eye opener for the Hawks just to show that teams are going to bring your best and you need to show up every down for the whole game!
Also it didn't help to have the game on national tv for everyone to see. It made the Hawks look like they were lost without Alexander. The truth is, they would have played this bad with Alexander. Just a season ticket holders observation.
might be the best comment/post you've ever given Dude...and you're right...Track-mark Trufant definitely opened the eyes of O-Cordinators league wide...if he was out of position he was getting burned...bad night for coaching and personel
the deflation of the bubble is deafining...
What's a 7 letter word for the "Black Gazelle"?.... I'm working on the PI's sports crossword.....
How about .... Ballack for $500...
Well, well, well. I knew I could count on The Lodge for a breakdown by the time I got in this morning....I'm only sorry that I couldn't bring it to you first.
I arrived back in the homeland last night at about 10 pm and I was without internet access for the entire day yesterday.....probably for the best.
Looks like I picked a bad game to go to, huh? Well, every team plays a bad game. It's just too bad that it happened on SNF in front of the entire nation of Seahawk skeptics. It wouldn't feel quite the same if the score had been 34-30...but the simple fact is that we didn't even make the trip. Going in, we all talked about not making mistakes....and once that first INT was thrown, I knew it could be the beginning of the end.
I have to agree on Burleson. This guy has all the potential in the world and he is bringing nothing to the table. I'm not sure that he is ready for the big stage that the Hawks are playing on these days. It looked like Mike Holmgren was actually going to take a run at him and take him down at one point when he dropped one pass on Sunday night. Absolutely ridiculous. And Trufant? HA! Effin' Coug. I think he has gotten a bit complacent in recent times by the way the Seattle fans have embraced the "local boy". The fact is, everyone seems to be able to handle the "Truf" lately....and it's pissin' a brutha off!
I'll end this comment here because many of you may not see it. I'll make a brief post tonight with some photos from the trip. Chi-town is absolutely amazing. Well worth the trip...and that is saying something considering the beating of the week that we endured. Hands down, Wrigley is Baseball Mecca.....and Soldier field is pretty damn sweet as well. The people in Chicago that we TALKED to were all really, really cool and respectful....but man, we were outnumbered by about 64,950.....so we took our lumps.
We'll be back fellas. It's not the end of the world. It's just like some Seatown bandwagoners to throw their hands up in the air and say that the season is over before it has begun....all I say to you is 'keep the faith bitches!'.
The Gospel from the raining #1 Lodge Seahawk fan...I second your comment about Chi-Town, the greatest sports town in America...hands down...not even debatable...looking forward to making a trip back there when the Dawgs head back to South Bend...
Interesting that Holmgren gave the players the week off...it's almost a Phil Jackson type move, I just hope it means they come out in St. Louis and post 21 in the first quarter...I'm not sure I agree with the move, but hey, the Walrus knows his team better than I...here's to CTown and Dude continuing to drive the Wagon...hopefully it's still full by the time they get back to the Qwest...
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