Seaside Joe: Hot, Medium, Mild Post-game Seahawks reactions

Thoughts: Seahawks-49ers

Seaside Joe — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:00:21 GMT

As I wrote leading up to the game, the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers were both bringing something you don’t see much of in most Week 6 matchups: Stakes.

It’s so cliche to debate the merits of a “must-win game” in the first half of the season, so I won’t. Neither of these teams have been playing up to their standards recently, neither had won …

7 thoughts: Seahawks-Giants

Seaside Joe — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 01:13:41 GMT

Going into the week, there was a universally-held belief that the Seattle Seahawks are a better team than the New York Giants. Actually, I don’t imagine that anyone was ranking the Giants higher than the Seahawks on any list other than the “Haplessness Hierarchy”.

Most people probably still think the Seahawks are better than the Giants. But the race is …

Seahawks-Lions: Hot, Medium, Mild performances

Seaside Joe — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:49:04 GMT

I did not start getting excited for the Seahawks’ Monday Night Football game—an event that is about as rare as Christmas Day—until Monday morning. I had successfully moved Seattle’s 3-0 record into a short-term storage rental in the back left secion of my hippocampus so that I wouldn’t get overly excited for their perfect start, but after getting to see…

Seahawks-Dolphins: Hot, Medium, Mild performances

Seaside Joe — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:38:40 GMT

On two different occasions in the first quarter, commentator Trent Green accidentally referred to Miami’s quarterback as “Skylar Murray”. Which would have been the worst broadcast offense if the day if not for Kevin Harlan thrice saying ”Smith-Najinga”.

By the fourth quarter of this game, any play by the Dolphins that was going in the right direction sta…

Hot, Medium, Mild: Seahawks-Patriots

Seaside Joe — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:02:57 GMT

Seahawks fans used to have a lot of conversations about how hard it is to play on the east coast at 10 AM, but I didn’t see that mentioned going into Week 2’s game at New England. Maybe you did and I just didn’t come across those same mentions of how hard or unfair it is to play with a morning clock vs. an afternoon clock. My week went by without thinki…

Hot, Medium, Mild: Broncos, Week 1

Seaside Joe — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:45:47 GMT

How much does Week 1 matter? Well, if you reversed the outcome of the Seahawks first game of 2023, a 30-13 loss to the Rams at home, then Seattle would have made the playoffs. The Rams finished 10-7 and earned the final wild card berth, the Seahawks finished 9-8, it’s really that simple: The Seahawks would have had the better record and been the 7-seed.

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7 overreactions to Seahawks-Chargers preseason game

Seaside Joe — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 03:06:38 GMT

One way that Seaside Joe could differ from other Seahawks writers is that I want to tell you before I go over what happened in Seattle’s preseason game against the Chargers on Saturday that I do not care what much what the box score says. I’ll tell you what the stats are sometimes, I will even share a screenshot with you of the box score, but I don’t wa…

Seahawks-Cardinals final result, fan reactions to season finale

Seaside Joe — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:36:49 GMT

The Seattle Seahawks entered the season finale with a very simple and familiar goal, which was to beat the Arizona Cardinals. Anything out of their control regarding the NFC playoff picture was just that: Out of their control. The Seahawks had their opportunities earlier in the season to have control and maybe the powers that be (whoever they are) will …

Seahawks-Steelers: What Are Your Instant Reactions?

Seaside Joe — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:24:17 GMT

The Seattle Seahawks entered Week 17 against the Pittsburgh Steelers with a lot to gain and even more to lose. The Seahawks couldn’t worry about what any other team did in their games this week, they could only hope to beat the Steelers and let the rest play out as it will. Especially because if Seattle could just win their last two games, they knew the…

Seahawks-Titans: Game result, score, playoff picture

Seaside Joe — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:28:38 GMT

Geno Smith was under more pressure to play well and win this week than he’s been under since his debut game as the Seahawks new starter to open the 2022 season against the Broncos. Then, he had to follow a potential Hall of Fame career after the Russell Wilson trade. Now, he had to follow Drew Lock’s game-winning, playoff-saving touchdown pass to beat t…

Seahawks-Eagles score, instant reaction

Seaside Joe — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:41:02 GMT

Surprisingly, the Seahawks did not enter Monday night’s game in the Eagles in a technical “must-win” situation because of the calamity that is the NFC wild card race, which was a stocking stuffed by 7-7 teams after Sunday. So, Seattle could lose to Philly on Monday and luckily be about one game back of making the playoffs with three games to go, all aga…

Seahawks-49ers reaction

Seaside Joe — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 01:52:16 GMT

The year is 2023.

I know, it sounds like the opening title card to a science fiction movie, but I am opening with “the year is 2023” today just in case anyone else feels like the Seattle Seahawks got their calendars mixed up. The year is 2023 and the Seahawks are nearing the end of their second season since trading Russell Wilson, the moment in which many fans thought the franchise had accepted the need to rebuild.

But based on how the last two seasons have gone, it’s as if this season should have been last season and last season should have been this season.

While 2022 felt like progress in the second or third year of a rebuild, 2023 feels like starting over.

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I wrote before the game that the Seahawks needed a “Super Bowl” to beat the 49ers in Week 14. Did we get that and what did we see from Seattle that is both encouraging and discouraging?

Seahawks-Cowboys: As I Sea It

Seaside Joe — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:51:03 GMT

There are no spoilers in the first couple lines of an instant Seahawks game recap because I know that not every subscriber has necessarily seen the outcome yet, but I can at least tell you one group of people who lost on Thursday: Football fans. All of us.

No matter which team you root for, you have to admit that the refs were an embarrassment to the NFL. If the league allows games like that to continue on their primetime stage on a regular basis, slowing down the action with ticky-tack penalties and procedural mistakes that make the NFL’s referees seem too amateur to have an impact on a professional sports game, then they won’t have as many people watching in the future.

I stopped regularly watching college football for similar reasons, but I always considered myself a pretty casual observer. I won’t stop watching the NFL because I’m not a casual observer, but I can’t speak for the millions with Amazon Prime who tuned in expecting to see the Seahawks play the Cowboys and instead got consistently interrupted by the refs. Yes, Seattle and Dallas are the two most-penalized teams in the NFL. That’s not what that was on Thursday.

How many times did they either pick up a flag or announce a decision, only to return and say that actually the team declined the penalty? What happened when they re-spotted Jason Myers’ field goal attempt and then moved the ball from the center to the right hash, causing a delay of game on Seattle? Why did it seem that the broadcast was in constant disagreement with the calls on the field?

Personally, here at Seaside Joe, I’m never going to stand for the excuse that the Seahawks lost a game because of the refs. To me, that’s just a lack of accountability that will constantly push blame on a third party that Seattle has no control over. The Seahawks had 10 penalties for 130 yards and the Cowboys had nine penalties for 127 yards.

The story of the refs on Thursday should not be sidetracked by “fairness” or “bias” because that just gives the NFL an excuse to ignore it again. “Oh, Seahawks fans are just mad because Seattle lost.”

Bullshit.

I’m mad that the Seahawks lost AND ON A COMPLETELY SEPARATE NOTE I’m frustrated that a league that takes in billions of dollars per year from fans can’t hire, properly train, and assist about 50 people in the entire world to be able to do these jobs well so that viewers aren’t subject to a broadcast that is 50% focused on the referees!

It was unfair to both teams. It was unfair to all of the players. It was unfair to all of the coaches. And it was unfair to the fans who have to pay for Amazon, for Sunday Ticket, for ESPN, for NFL Network, for cable, for tickets to the game, for all the one million ways it takes to watch football games in 2023, to have to stop the game every other minute in order to explain their latest flag…and I would say about 25% or more of those were wrong?

It was a complete joke and I wish all I had to do tonight was write about why I’m pissed off by the outcome of the game. I had myself convinced that even if the Seahawks lost a game that was competitive I’d still be happy and that’s what happened. The Cowboys beat the Seahawks 41-35, but at least we got to watch until the final minute with something on the line.

Instead, I don’t know what to think because the whole game should be flushed down the toilet. As Tom Brady recently said, the NFL has “mediocrized” itself with defensive penalties. This was the worst possible time for the league to prove him right on a nationally-televised game.

Thanks for trying, Seattle. Thanks for nothing, NFL.

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Seahawks-Rams: As I Sea It

Seaside Joe — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 01:11:33 GMT

The term “must-win” gets abused throughout an NFL season, but the Seattle Seahawks certainly should have felt the pressure to escape SoFi Stadium with a victory on Sunday for several key reasons: a) The Seahawks had a chance to keep pace with the 49ers for the NFC West lead, b) Seattle’s been embarrassed by the Rams since Aaron Donald’s arrival and coul…

Seahawks-Moons: As I Sea It

Seaside Joe — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:08:31 GMT

It would be easier to list the teams that do not have divisive quarterback situations than the ones that do and what’s the most common denominator between NFL teams that have the least amount of controversy at quarterback? Practically all of the quarterbacks who rank lowest on the “Boo!” meter were drafted by the franchise that they currently start for …

Seahawks-Ravens: As I Sea It

Seaside Joe — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:20:51 GMT

On Saturday, I watched a documentary about Milli Vanilli, the nineties pop duo that went platinum and won a Grammy with songs like “Girl You Know It’s True” by fooling the world into believing that they were something that they were not. Talented.

On Sunday, I watched the Seattle Seahawks.

Far be it from me to claim that the Seahawks are untalented—or Mil…

As I Sea It: Seahawks-Browns

Seaside Joe — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:10:37 GMT

The Seattle Seahawks entered Week 8 with an opportunity and one that they needed to take advantage of with four of their next six games coming on the road. The San Francisco 49ers had lost the last two, so a win over the Cleveland Browns combined with a Niners loss to the Cincinnati Bengals would mean a taste of first place for the Seahawks entering Wee…

As I Sea It: Seahawks-Cardinals

Seaside Joe — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:14:07 GMT

The Seattle Seahawks have an intense schedule over the next eight weeks:

Browns (4-2), at Ravens (5-2), Moons (3-4), at Rams (3-4), 49ers (5-1), at Cowboys (4-2), at 49ers (5-1), Eagles (5-1)

Even if it is sort of stretching the meaning of the word “strength” in the term “strength of schedule” to mention the Moons or Rams, the Seahawks are not in a p…

What needs to be said after Seahawks-Bengals

Seaside Joe — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 22:07:21 GMT

In his first meaningful snaps with the Seattle Seahawks, after he had already been with the team for two and a half years, Geno Smith led the offense on a 98-yard touchdown drive against the Los Angeles Rams that culminated in a 23-yard score to DK Metcalf. The Seahawks only faced one third down (third-and-1 run by DeeJay Dallas) and Seattle didn’t have…

Seahawks-Giants: As I See It

Seaside Joe — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:33:28 GMT

Today is the one-year anniversary of the Seattle Seahawks beating the Detroit Lions 48-45, a game that featured a semi-historic offensive performance by a Pete Carroll team. Seattle’s victory over the Lions is probably the 2022 game that has carried over the most good memories of any win last season, even if Pete would like to forget that the Seahawks a…