7 reasons to be patient, 8 reasons to be impatient with the Seahawks

DK Metcalf's lack of self-control continues to cost the Seahawks for no good reason, plus what Seattle needs to be impatient about: 9/11/2023

In evaluating his former team after the Seahawks’ 30-13 loss to the Rams in Week 1, K.J. Wright was confused by how Seattle’s defense was able to be so dominated on third downs and what caused the offense to gain three yards in the second half prior to a meaningless final play. Wright’s opinion is more intriguing to me than most because he played for Pete Carroll for 10 years, his time with the Seahawks overlapped with Clint Hurtt’s for four years, and he was teammates with several key players still on the team.

Not just Bobby Wagner, who he played next to for nine years, but also Geno Smith, Tyler Lockett, Quandre Diggs, and Jamal Adams, among others. He also spent two years in Seattle with DK Metcalf and you know what Wright wasn’t confused or surprised by?

Metcalf drawing a 15-yard penalty for taunting.

Those types of penalties, which Wright refers to as “decisions” instead of mistakes, have become as synonymous with DK Metcalf as winning the combine and it’s important to ask how much longer the Seahawks can afford to be patient with a player who hasn’t expressed any patience on the field when an opposing team knows they can get in his head.

DK Metcalf segment queued up already here (also link here):

Am I being too hard on DK Metcalf? Is K.J. Wright being unfair with DK Metcalf?

In this post, I’ll go over why there’s no more room for patience with Metcalf, how many/what kind of penalties he’s had in the last 4+ years, and the real reason why Metcalf has let people get in his head so consistently. There’s probably only one thing Metcalf can do to fix this problem, since there’s a lot of doubt about whether he can actually change.

Then I’ll discuss what Seahawks fans should be patient with and what issues are fair to be impatient about after Seattle’s embarrassing loss at home to the Rams. I have to admit to being way off in my evaluation of the Rams, they were far better than I anticipated, but I’m skeptical that they’ll play better games this season than they did on Sunday against the Seahawks, so we need to talk about the Seattle problems that don’t have obvious solutions right now…but also the ones that do.