To the fine folks who tabbed Barkley as many d-season CPOY over Geno:
What the lock are you thinking?!!!
Saquon played at a top level for 2 years, was out with a blown ACL for a season, had a “meh” season last year, and it doing really well this year. It’s a pretty good comeback, but not completely unexpected.
Geno played almost ok for the better part of 2 years, then spent 7 years in the “wilderness” as a backup, and when given the starting nod as Hawks QB, was doubted by EVERYBODY! Geno’s been playing like a borderline MVP candidate AT THE HARDEST POSITION IN PRO SPORTS!
The ONLY reason I see Barkley getting any of those votes over Geno is because Barkley is playing in NYC, presumed capital of the known universe.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
What a win would mean (in addition to all the great things you highlighted): Although football is way more than just a QB, it would mean that Geno Smith has beaten Tom Brady -- gotta count for something, just ask Matthew Stafford. It would also mean that the Seahawks have again dispatched a team that unanimously was supposed to be better than them (I too thought the Bucs would be way better than the Hawks). And it would mean that I REALLY owe an apology to Jody, Pete, John and Geno. A big one.
Nov 10, 2022·edited Nov 10, 2022Liked by Seaside Joe
I read that Cullen Gillaspia will be out for awhile after injuring his knee. It always locking sucks to loose anyone due to injury and I hope Cullen can come back and be his best Bellore. But, can we please promote Donkor from the practice squad to take his place for just this one game?!?! How cool would it be to have our own German playing in Germany?!?! Would Donkor running onto the field turn the crowd in our favor? Imagine a Donkor forced fumble on special teams! This is my pre-vision-board vision!
Expecting (hoping) for a bad season after the trade had a list of emotional reasons behind it for many. Wilson was gone, so a losing season would put Carroll & Schnieder in line for brutal criticisms (especially if Denver had a great season) unless fans could decide in advance to let this season be one to sacrifice. I'd guess that's also why Russell being booed by Denver fans, and having a horrible season so far has been satisfying to a segment of Seahawk fans. It was something of a self-preservation move to avoid being laughed at for faltering post trade. Geno didn't help by his 3 games last season or his pre-season performance, nor did Pete with his "we're not giving anything away" stand to make sure the team was a pleasant surprise rather than the dramatic decline fans were anticipating.
I'm still afraid to get too comfortable in the wins ahead, but I think that has more to do with last season than the current one.
I can honestly say I wanted the Seahawks to win as many games as possible, because winning begets winning. I can also clearly avow that I never thought Seattle would be 6 and 3 or close to that.
As far as which team may travel better, I think the Seahawks have shown that they have travel down to a science. We will have to travel 3 more time zones. Having played and toured Great Britain in rugby on a number of occasions,a tour is 6 games or more, going is much easier than coming home. One thing that helps greatly is to practice hard the day of landing or the next day depending upon arrival time. I wouldn't doubt the Seahawks have a facility ready to go, and they will practice close to if not the exact same time as kickoff on Sunday. A hard practice does make you feel better, it puts your metabolism and your cercadi clock into closer to the correct time. In mine/our case it was running off the beer consumed during an 8.5 hour flight, Germany being closer to ten hours . Speaking of flight times, this is an oddity Seattle's flight is only a half hour longer than Tampa Bay coming from the most southern region of America.
If we can beat the Bucs and improve to 7 and 3 the 12s will believe that the playoffs are a reality. Most importantly the Hawks already believe they will be a playoff team that can make some noise.
Anyone who thinks Pete, " always compete " Carrol would tank is outside their minds! My biggest worry is injuries ruining team cohesiveness. I remember one year when all the injuries happened to DBs. By mid season street free agents were starting. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Unless the injury bug hits, I can see the Hawks in the playoffs, especially since the Rams and the 9ers are way under performing..
I'll tell you what concerns me about this trip. Relative jetlag, which will be worse for Seattle given our west coast time zone.
The rookies may be young enough to suffer no significant impact but I could see it being a challenge for the older guys.
If the Bucks play the way they've played all season so far, and Seattle continues to play well, it should be a win. But should is the ultimate famous last word in sports.
If we come out of this game 7-3 with no major injuries, I'm calling it now: Seattle Seahawks, your Super Bowl LVII (pretty sure, I hate Roman numerals) champions! Injuries are always the wildcard in this sport, and losing someone like... I'm not even going to go there naming names... could change everything. But the same holds true for the rest of the league. This is a good team! And they are playing like a team! I've seen some Eagles games, Chiefs, Bills, etc. games, and right now I'm glad we have the Chiefs scheduled at least. I want to see how we do against the NFL's best! Eagles squeaked by a couple of average teams and I've seen all of the other "great" teams lose to teams like the Bears, Dolphins and Jets that seemed like they should be terrible at the time. But that's the cool thing about the NFL: you can't always tell.
I want Seahawks (obviously), Chargers and Cards to win next week. Two 3 win teams and one 4 win team would be really awesome while we're sitting at 7 on the season just halfway past the halfway point*. Make it happen, football gods!
*I'm still irrationally upset that it's now a 17 game season! Math is hard for me, and 16 is a number my brain can work with.
As for Twitter, I could write an article of 10,000 words on it, why it works, things in common with the people who tweet daily, the toxicity, and even the good that can be found there as soon as you remove anyone who posts or retweets politics, even if (and especially when) you agree with them. It's not a place for heartfelt dialogue. It's a place that when I asked sincerely why someone who had just posted a jpeg of Pete Carrol and some stats that didn't add up in my mind that the game might have passed him by, comments like "SWOOSH! THAT'S IT, THAT'S THE TWEET!" got the most likes and I never got a straight answer. When there is a near zero chance you are ever going to encounter the human on the other side of another keyboard, "dunking" in front of your "friends" seems like a cool idea. And my goodness of COURSE Ari would pay the measly $8 bucks for a verified account on Twitter. I'd wager he's requested that blue checkmark for years. It's so weird to me how many people whose names I know pretty well don't have one, while so many "randos," as the kids say, have one. All this will do it make it easier for the trolls who like to post fake NFL news to seem even more legitimate. Well, that and make Twitter more revenue.
Vikings are having a winning season but I am not seeing anyone mention whether they would be a strong contender for getting to the SB. They don’t show up on anything--not sure if they are even scheduled for a prime time slot in the future.
Just an interesting (to me) story about the Seahawks & traveling abroad. The year the Hawks went to London for a game my daughter traveled through London. When she went through customs, the agent saw she was traveling from Seattle and told her he had been the agent who cleared the teams through customs the week before. He said the Seahawks were the friendliest, most enjoyable group to arrive, and the Raiders were anything but. There's so much for the 12s to be proud of with Pete's teams.
I'm a 42 long, and if it isn't that or bigger, I don't want it. But it is cool. Maybe it doesn't fit you?
I've never paid attention to twitter. When nuclear war was almost unleashed on twitter I heard about it, but otherwise I wish it would just go away. People SHOULD have to verify their identity on twitter before they can participate in any activity on twitter. But I feel that way about every internet site.
Excuse me while I make a small, meaningless rant.
To the fine folks who tabbed Barkley as many d-season CPOY over Geno:
What the lock are you thinking?!!!
Saquon played at a top level for 2 years, was out with a blown ACL for a season, had a “meh” season last year, and it doing really well this year. It’s a pretty good comeback, but not completely unexpected.
Geno played almost ok for the better part of 2 years, then spent 7 years in the “wilderness” as a backup, and when given the starting nod as Hawks QB, was doubted by EVERYBODY! Geno’s been playing like a borderline MVP candidate AT THE HARDEST POSITION IN PRO SPORTS!
The ONLY reason I see Barkley getting any of those votes over Geno is because Barkley is playing in NYC, presumed capital of the known universe.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
We won't have to hear insufferable commentary about Brady havimg won in four countries. To me, that's the biggest.
What a win would mean (in addition to all the great things you highlighted): Although football is way more than just a QB, it would mean that Geno Smith has beaten Tom Brady -- gotta count for something, just ask Matthew Stafford. It would also mean that the Seahawks have again dispatched a team that unanimously was supposed to be better than them (I too thought the Bucs would be way better than the Hawks). And it would mean that I REALLY owe an apology to Jody, Pete, John and Geno. A big one.
I read that Cullen Gillaspia will be out for awhile after injuring his knee. It always locking sucks to loose anyone due to injury and I hope Cullen can come back and be his best Bellore. But, can we please promote Donkor from the practice squad to take his place for just this one game?!?! How cool would it be to have our own German playing in Germany?!?! Would Donkor running onto the field turn the crowd in our favor? Imagine a Donkor forced fumble on special teams! This is my pre-vision-board vision!
I apologize for my excessive punctuation!!!
Expecting (hoping) for a bad season after the trade had a list of emotional reasons behind it for many. Wilson was gone, so a losing season would put Carroll & Schnieder in line for brutal criticisms (especially if Denver had a great season) unless fans could decide in advance to let this season be one to sacrifice. I'd guess that's also why Russell being booed by Denver fans, and having a horrible season so far has been satisfying to a segment of Seahawk fans. It was something of a self-preservation move to avoid being laughed at for faltering post trade. Geno didn't help by his 3 games last season or his pre-season performance, nor did Pete with his "we're not giving anything away" stand to make sure the team was a pleasant surprise rather than the dramatic decline fans were anticipating.
I'm still afraid to get too comfortable in the wins ahead, but I think that has more to do with last season than the current one.
I can honestly say I wanted the Seahawks to win as many games as possible, because winning begets winning. I can also clearly avow that I never thought Seattle would be 6 and 3 or close to that.
As far as which team may travel better, I think the Seahawks have shown that they have travel down to a science. We will have to travel 3 more time zones. Having played and toured Great Britain in rugby on a number of occasions,a tour is 6 games or more, going is much easier than coming home. One thing that helps greatly is to practice hard the day of landing or the next day depending upon arrival time. I wouldn't doubt the Seahawks have a facility ready to go, and they will practice close to if not the exact same time as kickoff on Sunday. A hard practice does make you feel better, it puts your metabolism and your cercadi clock into closer to the correct time. In mine/our case it was running off the beer consumed during an 8.5 hour flight, Germany being closer to ten hours . Speaking of flight times, this is an oddity Seattle's flight is only a half hour longer than Tampa Bay coming from the most southern region of America.
If we can beat the Bucs and improve to 7 and 3 the 12s will believe that the playoffs are a reality. Most importantly the Hawks already believe they will be a playoff team that can make some noise.
Anyone who thinks Pete, " always compete " Carrol would tank is outside their minds! My biggest worry is injuries ruining team cohesiveness. I remember one year when all the injuries happened to DBs. By mid season street free agents were starting. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Unless the injury bug hits, I can see the Hawks in the playoffs, especially since the Rams and the 9ers are way under performing..
According to a visual on Reddit, a win would mean Seattle is the only team to have a winning record against Tom Brady.
But that could probably go in a similar category to the awards comment you made.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seahawks/comments/yp9ofx/chance_to_become_the_only_team_with_a_winning/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Matthew Stafford entered the concussion protocol today. Likelihood of the Rams losing climbs even higher.
I'll tell you what concerns me about this trip. Relative jetlag, which will be worse for Seattle given our west coast time zone.
The rookies may be young enough to suffer no significant impact but I could see it being a challenge for the older guys.
If the Bucks play the way they've played all season so far, and Seattle continues to play well, it should be a win. But should is the ultimate famous last word in sports.
Pulling for a win, though. Definitely.
If we come out of this game 7-3 with no major injuries, I'm calling it now: Seattle Seahawks, your Super Bowl LVII (pretty sure, I hate Roman numerals) champions! Injuries are always the wildcard in this sport, and losing someone like... I'm not even going to go there naming names... could change everything. But the same holds true for the rest of the league. This is a good team! And they are playing like a team! I've seen some Eagles games, Chiefs, Bills, etc. games, and right now I'm glad we have the Chiefs scheduled at least. I want to see how we do against the NFL's best! Eagles squeaked by a couple of average teams and I've seen all of the other "great" teams lose to teams like the Bears, Dolphins and Jets that seemed like they should be terrible at the time. But that's the cool thing about the NFL: you can't always tell.
I want Seahawks (obviously), Chargers and Cards to win next week. Two 3 win teams and one 4 win team would be really awesome while we're sitting at 7 on the season just halfway past the halfway point*. Make it happen, football gods!
*I'm still irrationally upset that it's now a 17 game season! Math is hard for me, and 16 is a number my brain can work with.
As for Twitter, I could write an article of 10,000 words on it, why it works, things in common with the people who tweet daily, the toxicity, and even the good that can be found there as soon as you remove anyone who posts or retweets politics, even if (and especially when) you agree with them. It's not a place for heartfelt dialogue. It's a place that when I asked sincerely why someone who had just posted a jpeg of Pete Carrol and some stats that didn't add up in my mind that the game might have passed him by, comments like "SWOOSH! THAT'S IT, THAT'S THE TWEET!" got the most likes and I never got a straight answer. When there is a near zero chance you are ever going to encounter the human on the other side of another keyboard, "dunking" in front of your "friends" seems like a cool idea. And my goodness of COURSE Ari would pay the measly $8 bucks for a verified account on Twitter. I'd wager he's requested that blue checkmark for years. It's so weird to me how many people whose names I know pretty well don't have one, while so many "randos," as the kids say, have one. All this will do it make it easier for the trolls who like to post fake NFL news to seem even more legitimate. Well, that and make Twitter more revenue.
I'm rambling now. Gehen MeerFalkens!
I just want Geno, in his post-game victory interview, to point to his wrist and flash the V for Victory sign.
Vikings are having a winning season but I am not seeing anyone mention whether they would be a strong contender for getting to the SB. They don’t show up on anything--not sure if they are even scheduled for a prime time slot in the future.
Just an interesting (to me) story about the Seahawks & traveling abroad. The year the Hawks went to London for a game my daughter traveled through London. When she went through customs, the agent saw she was traveling from Seattle and told her he had been the agent who cleared the teams through customs the week before. He said the Seahawks were the friendliest, most enjoyable group to arrive, and the Raiders were anything but. There's so much for the 12s to be proud of with Pete's teams.
I'm a 42 long, and if it isn't that or bigger, I don't want it. But it is cool. Maybe it doesn't fit you?
I've never paid attention to twitter. When nuclear war was almost unleashed on twitter I heard about it, but otherwise I wish it would just go away. People SHOULD have to verify their identity on twitter before they can participate in any activity on twitter. But I feel that way about every internet site.
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