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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaJZwYPe…
Anyway, luck of the draw (like a lot of luck down the stretch, regarding other team's implosions) favors Seattle this wee - with Green Bay coming in I predict a second straight Super Bowl berth for Seattle. If it were Dallas, I'd be a lot more skeptical on that point. (Where are the conspiracy theorists regarding the "football move" call? The ones insisting Dallas paid off the refs last week?)
Aaron Rodgers is gonna get crushed on Sunday. The Packers are as done as Peyton Manning's career. Seahawks 30, Packers 13.
Go Hawks!
Two things: The hopping the line technique has been around for a while, and typically is not used due to the possibility of penalty if it is not executed right. We are seeing it more and more these days though. I imagine a rule will be forthcoming to make it illegal, since the original rule to do away with the tactic was that you could not use a player to launch yourself up. But guys these days are a lot more spry.
Second, you need to read about how NFL contracts work if you are going to comment so assuredly on them. The outlook is not as good as you suggest, especially considering Wil$on is going to want his 20 million a year, and the QB market is garbage this year, more or less forcing Seattle to give him whatever he wants. Big DB contracts that were handed out are now escalating. For example Sherman's cap hit in 2014 was a paltry $3.6 million. In 2015 that becomes $12 million. Serious business. Certainly not abnormal though, but Seattle has been benefitting from dirt cheap QB play for a while now, and the general talent on the team will go down when he starts to get paid.
Andrew > Peyton.
nice job #11. great burn.
Norwood and Lockett better step it up.
But on to the salary cap. This where you clearly don't pay that much attention to the new era Seahawks. They churn through players like no ome's business. If fact only have of the starting players from 2012 are on this squad. Essentially the team is built around defense (no duh, right?), defense contracts tend to be pretty undervalued. And due to the way they use Wilson they really don't need to spend money on WRs (the most overvalued postion in football).
They'll be able to retain most of the team for 2015 while giving Wilson that monster contract. If you're really waiting for their downfall, it won't be due to salary cap issues. It'll be finding Lynch's replacement in 2016. RBs are his caliber are rare, I know you're a sucker for traditional stats but look into his weighted stats and the dude is truly above and beyond.
What you're seeing is Moneyball NFL addition. If you are interested in further reading about how clever they are with their pay roll and taking advantage of the market inefficiencies produced by the current CBA, I highly recommend checking out David Hsu. Neat stuff.
Hail Peyton! Greatest QB of all time.
There is really no debate to be had here, as I am simply stating the numbers and what they mean for the team, and any team. Seattle does not have a bad cap situation, but they also do not have unlimited money, as the post seems to suggest. When you have to go from paying one player half a million a year to twenty million a year (roughly 1/6th of what the cap will likely be then), other players will have to be cut or released to make way for cheaper replacements. NFL forces "moneyball" on everyone, that is what the salary cap is. Seattle is doing what every team does financially, the difference is talent evaluation and development/coaching.
I am not waiting for anyone's "downfall," I am not sure how to respond to that.
I have no idea what that offense will look like if Lynch leaves. Wilson gets a lot of attention, but without the constant threat of Lynch, those option plays and play action bootlegs no longer work. Lynch is the engine and without a runner like Lynch, the offense is going to suffer greatly. No one on their current roster can come close to the effect Lynch has.
I think he should retire now, with dignity intact.
He has also been playing injured for the last month or so, and suffered what for most people is a career ender a few years ago, so decline is expected.
Which is fine, sports are entertainment and people can enjoy it anyway they want but based on your evaluation methods I'd stay away from betting.
But I will say you claiming you don't wish for 'Cheat Carroll' to fail is as silly as SeatlleBlues denying his homophobia.
Here is a link for Seahawks fans so they can learn who Scot McCloughan is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot_McClou…
What "national sports media narrative" are you referring to?
What makes you think McCloughan gets no credit for helping to build the team? Because Joe Buck and ESPN don't talk about him? The (mostly inaccurate) storylines you've repeated about the Seahawks all season long have just be regurgitated from the national media, so don't pretend to know what people in Seattle are talking about.
Go Hawks!
As to your first question, because the Seattle media does not mention his name, and only bring up Carroll and Schneider when talking about how the team was built, including this very post. Also, no Seahawks fan I have ever spoken to knows who he is. Joe Buck sucks and everything ESPN says is wrong/clickbait.
Also, nut up, its a little trash talk, you know, that thing you do all the time here until someone gives it back and your panties wad up?
...oh, I'll just educate you: 9226 rushing yards and 64 rushing TDs in 7 seasons. Dude was a Hall of Fame semifinalist this year.
Go Hawks!
Maybe it's time to talk about Hump 2016 or the Block Party?
The Patriots are Seattle's only real competition this year.
@4 ScottL: Yeah--I remember Saturday's final score being 31-17, but we'll take it!
BTW, Mathieu du Denver: Fox is out! Someone must be blamed!
Manning had a tough second half of the season, that's probably on the coaches, from what I've read. It sounds like he was passing less because passing as much as he was being asked to do is ludicrous, and the passes he was making weren't markedly worse (this is from an analysis pre-Colts game, which I didn't see, so I can't speak to that). It seems like the Broncos decided that they just needed Manning to Manning, and they'd win a Super Bowl. Turns out you need more than just a good QB and receiving corp on offense.
All that said, it's tough when your team loses.
As far as the Broncos go, our team was built to win, and honestly should have won in 2012 and yes, even last year. Manning isn't blameless, but he didn't make the kind of risk-adverse decisions at pivotal moments that led to things like Baltimore's game tying score two years ago and the early snap that started (and set the tone) for last years Super Bowl whomping. You can't be given a Lambourghini of a team and blame the engine when you're the one steering it into a ditch over and over.
http://www.joshmcdanielssucks.com/2013/0…
The early snap happened right as the crowd noise reached deafening pitch because, hey, people get excited about the Super Boel when it finally starts, and obviously the center thought he heard something. The problem was that they were unprepared for playing it like a road game, and Fox admitted later that they had the option of practicing with canned crowd noise but didn't think they needed it.
http://www.denverpost.com/paige/ci_25154…
Cherry picking again DOUG, and I still am waiting to hear about all those false story lines I have been spewing. Why can't you ever back up anything you say?
Stupid comments, none of them accurate.
Go Hawks!
Wilson, like any young quarterback not named Luck, is a mediocre passer, especially from the pocket, which is why the Seattle coaching staff runs the offense it does. It is about limiting his exposure, and it works well. It highlights his strengths and minimizes his weaknesses, but the weaknesses are still there. I am sure he will improve.
I said Sherman gets too much credit, not all of it, and I said that lack of depth is an institutional failure because you were blaming a drop off in play on injuries, and that is a depth issue. Not like depth is something only Seattle has to deal with, and like all teams, it is a failure of the organization as a whole.
I know you can not handle it when other people do not think your team is perfect (like it is your mommy or something), and that is why people laugh and call you a homer.
Why does Sherman get all the credit when…
There is no such thing as luck, and ever…
These false storylines are totally out of the ESPN talking head script.
I do not even get ESPN at home, and there is no reason to ever go to their website becasue they are wrong about everything.
Don't fret, if you keep trying, you are bound to be right about something someday.
You call that "cherry picking" but I don't think you know what that phrase means.
Go Hawks!
By no objective measure is Russell Wilson a "mediocre passer". That is a storyline told on a national level that has no basis in reality.
Nope, they must be dirty...somehow.
@ 57, I can't even be bothered to read your comment, because I know it won't be worth my while.
@ 58, I've seen mediocre passers toss some real beauties. Tim Tebow actually had some downfield range, for example, and there's his famous OT winner in that Denver-Pittsburgh playoff game from a few years back.
I confess to picking the Cowboys as the upset last weekend. Interesting to see if Seattle is patient or goes wild with safety blitzes and sees if Rodgers and Jordy Nelson can beat them. Hopefully, Pete the gambler is kept away from the sideline. The worst part of the Peyton Manning/Andrew Luck storyline is Jim Irsay taking the credit.
http://www.seahawks.com/news/articles/ar…
So where are all the experts criticizing Wilson?
@ 69, where in that puff piece from the Seahawks official site is the quote that supports your assertion? I couldn't find it.
Go Hawks!
You know that you forgot your Amen on a few of your posts. The Football Gods won't be pleased.
@65: I doubt Seattle is going to blitz the safeties much against Rodgers, I imagine they will stay in a single high look much of the night forcing Rodgers to look to the sidelines and underneath stuff. Seattle's defense is great at limiting YAC, and I think that is how they will play it.
Last time they played Green Bay (beat them by 20), they were in cover-1 and cover-3 basically all night, and it obviously worked out very well for them.
If I am Green Bay, I am looking to pound the ball right up the gut with Lacy on spread formations and look for recievers on shallow crossing routes. Seattle is going to force them to dink and dunk. Big DBs like Seattle has typically have trouble getting their hips and feet moving/turned as quickly as smaller guys, and that is how you can create seperation against them. Guys like Welker and Amendola have made a career off of it.
Those were your points (I even provided links!), but you seem to be backing away from them now...just like the national media is.
Go Hawks!
I think right now in Wilson's development he is mediocre purely as a passer because of some issues with his mechanics, and vision, which Seattle's offense minimizes based on how they use him. More to QB than throwing the ball though. He has a very efficient release, and all the tools to improve these things, and still has work to do like all young QBs. This obsession you have with him being perfect and belligerence with anyone suggesting otherwise is bizarre and creepy.
Pay attention.
Anyway, I have grown bored with explaining these things to you over and over, if you want to talk about football, that is fine, but I am done with this.
Is that Gruden or Jaworski?
@82- Actually I had an impassioned plea against doxxing people just because you don't like them. I'm sorry you misunderstood that, I only restated a couple zillion times. Sorry I didn't join your witchhunt. I also pointed out that "People of Wal*Mart" is an awful thing to do to a stranger but for some reason we're OK with making fun of obese mentally ill people but horrified by people masturbating to sexuallized teenagers (except of course for in music videos, commercials, Woody Allen's family, Roman Polanski's past, etc....) Was that too much nuance? Was I just supposed to be gleeful that some Reddit guy lost his job? Like two weeks later a gay teenager killed himself because someone found his habits repulsive and doxxed him. What's bad for the goose is bad for the gander.
If that seems like an impassioned defense of reddit creeps I'm sorry you're such a bad reader.
@ 84, obviously I was speaking of championships. Don't be daft.
I mean, saying they haven't won a championship as an indictment on a team when they've been in the hunt every year is kind of dumb.
Obviously they are still a very successful team, but part of their playoff sucess is due to being in a division with the Jets, Bills, and Dolphins, all teams that were more or less very below average during those years, and really have only been forming into solid teams over the last couple years, meaning NE basically got to the playoffs comparatively easily for a long time. Obviously having perhaps the best QB of all time and an amazing coaching staff does wonders as well.
Personally I think the league changes too much each year to ascribe it to the cheating specifically, but the timeline is a bit embarrassing for the organization, and everyone knows it.