Smiling big time : "Pete Carroll and JS after the Broncos traded 2 firsts and 2 seconds for the wrong Seattle quarterback" ... chuckling. Thanks, KenJoe, keep on keepin' on.
Would really like to have the Falcons win and be 5-2. They're doing well, but they're a pro team competing in a winnable division.
How we play against the Rams is really where we stand in the post Russell era as that's where he really had trouble, Seattle struggled.
One game over .500 at 7 weeks is a bit early to get excited, but this team cam compete, and have a team that's sustainable because no one's playing above their level.
Might be said the rookies can still improve, especially Mafe and Walker
I voted that Geno will be benched before the end of the season.
And that's because we will have such a dominant win some week that we will play Drew Lock in the 4th quarter. Not only that, but our playoff seed will also be crystalized by week 17, so Drew gets the start on week 18 so Geno gets a bye week. Unless we have the 1st seed (I'm not that optimistic *yet*), then Geno will start so he doesn't rust, but Lock will finish the game. A pre-post-season game, if you want.
Wonderful idea, but I believe allowing readers the chance to see the old answers before answering the new survey allowed for people to impact how they answered. Memory is a funny thing. It is definitely not reliable when it comes to the ego. The ego can gradually change how we view the past until we actually believe untruths about how we felt in the past.
Anyways, I took the survey before reading the past results. I was one of the few whose opinion of Geno has not changed substantially since last year. How I was so confident in Geno I cannot say for sure, but how he played last year is probably most of it. Plus I am almost always optimistic about our chances which has led to plenty of disappointment.
I stopped blaming our OC's and OL's two seasons ago. I had highly vague doubts about RW3 that have clarified since he has demonstrated his limitations this year in stark relief.
I've loved Pete for almost his entire tenure here. I just love his philosophy. I think it transfers to life. Choose happiness. Choose compassion.
Thanks for the look back Kenneth. It is remarkable how swiftly the rookies have impacted this season. This team is not the same without these picks, and affirms what I thought was the best offseason in a decade.
As someone who doubted Geno, here is my obligatory apology: sorry Geno, thanks for not writing back. Stoked that he's been exactly the kind of bridge QB we needed, what an awesome story. Before the season, I was just hoping he could be TJax, i.e. not awful but not good. That would allow the players to develop and our offense to keep us competitive. He's been far better than that.
Despite our astounding success this year, I'm not really wavering on where I put the team to start the year. I never really pegged us for bottom 5, I thought 7-10 or 8-9 were about right. I still feel comfortable with that, but would be over the moon if we did better and played well into January. I didn't quite expect the division to be this wide open, tbh.
I just want to say that the Seahawks are *meeting my expectations* although I have to say I was wrong about Geno. I was certain that Lock would be the guy leading the Seahawks to a 10-win season.
I hesitated over "Win the NFCW" or "Lose the NFCW but make the playoffs". Can the Seahawks actually win the NFCW? All of the teams have weaknesses but here is the thing for me: with 6 rookies starting for the Seahawks they are going to continue to improve as the season goes on. Our OL is already "getting it" and the play that convinced me of that was Walker's first TD vs San Diego. Find that play and look closely at how well it was blocked--on the left side too, btw. So I am ALL IN on the Seahawks winning the NFCW!
I think the Seahawks could win the division and even do well in the playoffs, but it's impossible to win a wild card slot. The NFCW is so weak that the second place team doesn't have a chance to get in the playoffs.
Yeah the D is going to keep getting better also. Tariq, Boye, and Coby are all going to be better than they are now with experience, as the season rolls on.
It has been a pattern with Seattle's D to start off slow and get better. This week vs Barkley and the Giants will be a test for sure.
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" - John Maynard Keynes.
Sidenote - If Keynes were still alive today it would be interesting to see if he'd change his mind about government intervention in the market after central banks have blown bubble after bubble, leading to today's current inflation.
Ooh... do we want to make this an economic theory discussion? Because Keynes would not be a fan of monetary policy increasing interest rates to fight an inflationary bubble that was caused largely by energy prices spiking and supply chain disruptions.
Increasing interest rates to fight inflation only works because it slows down the overall ecoomy and puts people out of work: people can't spend, and therefore inflation declines. This is no way to run an economy (or a society)!
I want to sue my universities (undergrad and grad) for the tuition I paid for the macro economic courses I took that preached monetary policy. The assumptions of monetary policy have been all proven to be WRONG. There is no demonstrable link between money supply and inflation among other things. Look up Stephanie Kelton's newsletter The Lens--it is terrific!
I tried to like your comment, but the system wouldn't let me. I agree wholeheartedly with your post. I have thought the same thing regarding the Economics classes I took. Almost everything we are still told is a sham.
No, I haven't. When the trillions of dollars the fed pumped into the economy to "save the banks" in 2008/09 did not result in a huge inflationary spike (as monetary theory predicted it would) I started looking around for an explanation. I found Marianna Manzucato and Stephanie Kelton. Kelton's book "The Deficit Myth" should be required reading for anyone expressing an opinion on the economy. There is just so much BAD Ecoomic theory out there that is "accepted wisdom" it drives me crazy! Modern Monetary Theory or MMT has far better explanations for what happens at the macro level in an economy, including the causes of inflation (and how to remedy it).
I'm sure you are better informed on the subject than I, but if deficit's are irrelevant than there is nothing stopping us from giving every citizen a monthly stipend and that would heat the economy up even more. And I believe it, though there must be some limit, though why and where I have no clue.
Debt is a different story. A large absolute debt is acceptable as long as it finances growth. Debt / GNP is a good indicator of that. A UBI is worth considering, if there could be a serious discussion about it. Alaska has version of that via its energy dividend.
The tl;dr: any country issuing their own currency has no problem with "debt"--it is a myth. BUT there is a hard cap on spending by the govt and that cap is the total amount of goods and services produced by the economy.
Smiling big time : "Pete Carroll and JS after the Broncos traded 2 firsts and 2 seconds for the wrong Seattle quarterback" ... chuckling. Thanks, KenJoe, keep on keepin' on.
Would really like to have the Falcons win and be 5-2. They're doing well, but they're a pro team competing in a winnable division.
How we play against the Rams is really where we stand in the post Russell era as that's where he really had trouble, Seattle struggled.
One game over .500 at 7 weeks is a bit early to get excited, but this team cam compete, and have a team that's sustainable because no one's playing above their level.
Might be said the rookies can still improve, especially Mafe and Walker
Pretty easy to reply yes I was wrong about Geno. If you had asked me that after the Niners game I would have said I was right about Geno.
I voted that Geno will be benched before the end of the season.
And that's because we will have such a dominant win some week that we will play Drew Lock in the 4th quarter. Not only that, but our playoff seed will also be crystalized by week 17, so Drew gets the start on week 18 so Geno gets a bye week. Unless we have the 1st seed (I'm not that optimistic *yet*), then Geno will start so he doesn't rust, but Lock will finish the game. A pre-post-season game, if you want.
Wonderful idea, but I believe allowing readers the chance to see the old answers before answering the new survey allowed for people to impact how they answered. Memory is a funny thing. It is definitely not reliable when it comes to the ego. The ego can gradually change how we view the past until we actually believe untruths about how we felt in the past.
Anyways, I took the survey before reading the past results. I was one of the few whose opinion of Geno has not changed substantially since last year. How I was so confident in Geno I cannot say for sure, but how he played last year is probably most of it. Plus I am almost always optimistic about our chances which has led to plenty of disappointment.
I stopped blaming our OC's and OL's two seasons ago. I had highly vague doubts about RW3 that have clarified since he has demonstrated his limitations this year in stark relief.
I've loved Pete for almost his entire tenure here. I just love his philosophy. I think it transfers to life. Choose happiness. Choose compassion.
Well said.
Thanks for the look back Kenneth. It is remarkable how swiftly the rookies have impacted this season. This team is not the same without these picks, and affirms what I thought was the best offseason in a decade.
As someone who doubted Geno, here is my obligatory apology: sorry Geno, thanks for not writing back. Stoked that he's been exactly the kind of bridge QB we needed, what an awesome story. Before the season, I was just hoping he could be TJax, i.e. not awful but not good. That would allow the players to develop and our offense to keep us competitive. He's been far better than that.
Despite our astounding success this year, I'm not really wavering on where I put the team to start the year. I never really pegged us for bottom 5, I thought 7-10 or 8-9 were about right. I still feel comfortable with that, but would be over the moon if we did better and played well into January. I didn't quite expect the division to be this wide open, tbh.
FWIW, Brock Huard thought that T-Jack was clearly better than Geno.
I also thought this was going to be a T-Jax kind of year
Looks more like a DangeRuss’s first year with SeaHawks
WHY NOT US ??????
boy was I wrong...wow!
I just want to say that the Seahawks are *meeting my expectations* although I have to say I was wrong about Geno. I was certain that Lock would be the guy leading the Seahawks to a 10-win season.
I hesitated over "Win the NFCW" or "Lose the NFCW but make the playoffs". Can the Seahawks actually win the NFCW? All of the teams have weaknesses but here is the thing for me: with 6 rookies starting for the Seahawks they are going to continue to improve as the season goes on. Our OL is already "getting it" and the play that convinced me of that was Walker's first TD vs San Diego. Find that play and look closely at how well it was blocked--on the left side too, btw. So I am ALL IN on the Seahawks winning the NFCW!
I think the Seahawks could win the division and even do well in the playoffs, but it's impossible to win a wild card slot. The NFCW is so weak that the second place team doesn't have a chance to get in the playoffs.
The entire NFC is weak. There are only 5 teams with a winning record at this point.
Ditto. The division is ripe for the taking.
Yeah the D is going to keep getting better also. Tariq, Boye, and Coby are all going to be better than they are now with experience, as the season rolls on.
It has been a pattern with Seattle's D to start off slow and get better. This week vs Barkley and the Giants will be a test for sure.
I like what I seen from them so much over the past couple weeks I'm using them as my defense for my big dollar fantasy league.
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" - John Maynard Keynes.
Sidenote - If Keynes were still alive today it would be interesting to see if he'd change his mind about government intervention in the market after central banks have blown bubble after bubble, leading to today's current inflation.
Ooh... do we want to make this an economic theory discussion? Because Keynes would not be a fan of monetary policy increasing interest rates to fight an inflationary bubble that was caused largely by energy prices spiking and supply chain disruptions.
Increasing interest rates to fight inflation only works because it slows down the overall ecoomy and puts people out of work: people can't spend, and therefore inflation declines. This is no way to run an economy (or a society)!
I want to sue my universities (undergrad and grad) for the tuition I paid for the macro economic courses I took that preached monetary policy. The assumptions of monetary policy have been all proven to be WRONG. There is no demonstrable link between money supply and inflation among other things. Look up Stephanie Kelton's newsletter The Lens--it is terrific!
I tried to like your comment, but the system wouldn't let me. I agree wholeheartedly with your post. I have thought the same thing regarding the Economics classes I took. Almost everything we are still told is a sham.
Have you read "Making Money"? Though satire, it clearly expresses what you are suggesting, and explains it to anyone who can read.
No, I haven't. When the trillions of dollars the fed pumped into the economy to "save the banks" in 2008/09 did not result in a huge inflationary spike (as monetary theory predicted it would) I started looking around for an explanation. I found Marianna Manzucato and Stephanie Kelton. Kelton's book "The Deficit Myth" should be required reading for anyone expressing an opinion on the economy. There is just so much BAD Ecoomic theory out there that is "accepted wisdom" it drives me crazy! Modern Monetary Theory or MMT has far better explanations for what happens at the macro level in an economy, including the causes of inflation (and how to remedy it).
I'm sure you are better informed on the subject than I, but if deficit's are irrelevant than there is nothing stopping us from giving every citizen a monthly stipend and that would heat the economy up even more. And I believe it, though there must be some limit, though why and where I have no clue.
Any given deficit is irrelevant.
Debt is a different story. A large absolute debt is acceptable as long as it finances growth. Debt / GNP is a good indicator of that. A UBI is worth considering, if there could be a serious discussion about it. Alaska has version of that via its energy dividend.
I don't want to take over the thread completely here :D.
If you are on Twitter you can check out my pinned thread:
https://twitter.com/dougthecoach
The tl;dr: any country issuing their own currency has no problem with "debt"--it is a myth. BUT there is a hard cap on spending by the govt and that cap is the total amount of goods and services produced by the economy.
And yes a monthly stipend is possible.