WOW! A lot of stats...got so lost in the weeds I'm still missing. That many stats is too much like Baseball for my comfort. I'm more of an X's and O's dude myself...understanding that even simple visuals like X's and O's can be confusing as the same drawn up play will work like clockwork or fall apart as the ability of each X or O to execute the plan may vary greatly. Still, I can see what's SUPPOSED to happen. I suspect Tic-Tac-Toe was a gateway drug for me. If I understand the emplications of all those names and numbers, the Hawks are heaed for a Division Championship...if I don't...we'll get a really early day one draft pick next year. A win-win right?
As far as stats go, I thought this article was pretty tame. Touchdowns, interceptions, passing yards. It's just split by down by situations and football is a situational game.
In my opinion, here is what I would attribute the offensive change to:
1) Kubiak (Sea Hawk Run! posted a great video on Running the ball. Something Grubb did not do!).
1B) Kubiak affect on O-Line plus O-line growth and Zabel
2) JSN
3) Health
Sam Darnold has done a good job of grabbing the QB torch and keeping it held high. The Seahawks haven't had bad QB play since Tarvaris Jackson! That is great news. But I see SD as a continuation of Geno not a revelation. The big news is that he is younger, and I do think he can get better still (He has lost two games in the final drive!).
For me, I just think it is a huge win for the Seahawks that SD is playing well. The risk in the offseason was taking a ride on the QB roulette wheel while the team around the QB is in year 4 of the rebuild and should be looking accelerate into the SB window. A bad QB would have halted that progress in its tracks.
Hoping for health, continued growth, and a strong finish to the season! Then we will see SD face his demons of big-time pressure football under a microscope. I think he will do just fine and looking forward to hopefully a good playoff run.
The offense was rebuilt from hiring Kubiak in January. I don't know what you mean by a 4-year window. It was an easier transition for Sam Darnold to be on the Seahawks in 2025 than it would have been for Geno Smith, which is why the two sides agreed to part ways.
I considered this year 4 of the rebuild that started when we traded RW and piled up draft picks. (Seahawks would never call it a "rebuild" but that is what happened).
Now those draft picks are in their "senior" year and coming together nicely which has been building over the last 4 years. I think the entire roster has pretty much been turned over at this point. It's coming together, and it is time to hit the gas pedal and try to win the whole thing, IMO.
Just think the relationship ran its course. He said he never felt apart of the team. Mike Mac has talked about that being a weakness of his he tried to improve in year 2.
In the end, think it’s all fine. Worked out well for the Hawks with SD and I think Mike Mac has improved.
No, I don't think the Seahawks have done any rebuilding since they hired Pete Carroll initially. But of course, this is a matter of semantics unless a team really rips the team down from top to bottom. Trading Russell Wilson to make the team better wouldn't go down as a rebuild in my book and I've been saying the same thing since 2022.
I always viewed the trading the “Franchise” QB for (I think) 5 draft picks as the start of the rebuild. Two tackles drafted in 2022 as building blocks.
Most NFL teams go through cycles, we are just coming out of the building portion, IMO.
The team is now significantly younger and I don’t think has a player from the 2021 roster on it.
In keeping with this theme, the OL has drastically improved its pass protection over last year. The Seahawks have currently allowed 60 total pressures by OL with 5 sacks, 11 QB hits, and 44 QB hurries, with 9 OL penalties. Going into week 9 last year, they had allowed 12 sacks, 15 QB hits, and 85 QB hurries for 112 total pressures, and 26 OL penalties. Stats from PFF Premium.
Good to get some added info there. Pressures are a marriage of OL and QB and coaching and non-OL blockers like RBs and TEs...Pretty obvious that the Seahawks have better players protecting the QB this year and I think Darnold's been good about not holding onto the ball too long or running into pressure.
I only included pressures/penalties credited to OL. Walker also has a sack allowed, I think, and the other 3 of Darnold's 9 sacks are likely credited to him (coverage sacks)
Nice, good to know that distinction. I've heard coach All-22 say that pressures are often really a credit to coaching staff and scheme. A pressure could even be something the OL allows to happen.
Not once have I heard anyone anywhere say anything to the effect "I sure do miss DK and or Geno, I wish we had him or them back ". Lol 😆. Remeber when almost everyone was losing their minds and thought we were just tanking and rebuilding....ha! Thanks SSJ for the breakdown. My only concern is that the Seahawks will be a good, yet untested, team rolling into the playoffs. Rams and Colts provide a little better insight but still...
Coaches have a lot of experience. Macdonald went to the playoffs a lot as a Harbaugh underling. Kubiak went to a lot of playoffs and the Super Bowl in 2023. Aden Durde helped the Cowboys win a lot of games. Leslie Frazier's been around forever. John Benton's been around forever. Teams can't expect to win playoff games later, they need to do it whenever they get the chance because it may not come around again. Are the Eagles a more dangerous team because of experience or an easier team to plan for because of experience?
Ultimately I don't think we can boil down anybody's playoffs to a single factor of why they got eliminated other than this: Eagles, Packers, Lions, Bucs, Rams, Seahawks, 49ers...the best teams are in the NFC. Only one gets out.
I’m confident that Geno would have much better stats this year with the new offense than he did last year with Grubb. I was disappointed that we lost him, and didn’t know much about Darnold, so I stayed neutral and kept an open mind.
After seven games, it’s clear that Darnold is an upgrade. Both QBs operate at a high level and can pass accurately down the field. Where Darnold excels is his pinpoint accuracy in tight windows (and JSN’s reliability in those situations as the #1 receiver.) Now add Darnold’s zen-like focus. I think he learned the value of unflappability from his time with Purdy.
I don’t know that Darnold would have played better than Geno on this team last year. I felt that Geno excelled at escaping the interior pass rush and playing on instinct. If his time to pass was long, it was because his protection failed so quickly that he had to bail. Where Geno did poorly was when his first reads weren’t open and his protection was good. He’d have time to overthink things and likely force an interception. Sam’s decision making seems to come from a quieter place.
I’m glad I kept an open mind on Sam. He’s dang good. If I have a fear, it’s that the ability to make tight window throws can go to the passer’s head. The day that they are slightly off and confidently passing with no margin for error is a bad day.
Let’s hope Sam gets more comfortable with other targets, so he has all the options available to him.
And best wishes to Geno. I hope he and his new offense improve.
With an OC who seems as bad as Grubb was for the NFL, it's hard to say. I'm glad we don't have to find out. The Seahawks are better off this season either way.
The passing offense is so much better his year, and that’s all the team did last year was pass.
SSJ nails it in that the Hawks need to work on finding receivers other than JUST JSN on third downs. Come playoff time, teams will likely take away your first and second options. And the Hawks need to be ready. And yes Jim Mora, I’m talking playoffs.
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The fellow who made it is a Seahawks fan. I saw it yesterday. I am not a stats guy, but I do appreciate other people presenting stats in a way that is understandable and make sense.
I am hopeful and I believe that hope is justified, in that the Hawks offense will improve in the 2nd half of the season much like the defense improved last year. So many new players and coaches learning to work together. I do feel there is still a possibility we see a trade that might improve the team in a marginal way. I just think JS has his line drawn on how far he will go to get a player. I’ve heard it said that sometimes you have to over pay to get a player if you want to improve. That can often lead to disastrous consequences. I’m a fan of his restraint. RG is the only position on the Hawks that is terribly below the bar. But how many RGs are on the market and what is the sticker price? How is Will Fries working out for the Vikings? Awesome restraint, John!
I'm still not convinced that Christian Haynes isn't the guy for RG, like so many seem to be. He was the early leader in the RG competition, then AB started to take over. There were also reports during that time of the pectoral injury that he missed some time for, but we still saw him playing some at LG and he seemed to disappear from the RG competition.
Towards the end of the preseason, we saw more pectoral injury reports, and then he goes on IR now through 8 weeks in the regular season. I don't buy the narrative that they "stashed" him on IR. I tend to think that if he was placed on IR for 8 weeks+, then we are looking at a legitimate injury that started some time around the second week of training camp, which kept him from continuing in the competition for starting RG.
It may have taken them some time to figure out the extent of his injury, but it obviously kept him from even practicing until this week when he has been eligible to return for a few weeks now. All while AB has been stinking it up at RG.
My calculus will change if he is cleared to return and they still keep him on the sidelines, but until then, he has been sidelined/limited since early August with an injury in my eyes.
I don't recall if there was a time when Christian Haynes was ever leading a competition at right guard. In OTAs and minicamp, him and Bradford were treated as equals, at best, and the Seahawks were toying with Haynes as a center.
Maybe "leading" was the wrong term. There was a time where Haynes being a starter on the Seahawks OL was generally seen as likely to happen, although there was no word from the team in that regard. When that changed was at the same time his pectoral injury was also being reported.
I thought it would happen, I think I even wrote a newsletter about it myself. But then camp started and it went straight downhill. Maybe from injury, who knows.
I might be mistaken, but the time Haynes was seen as a starter extended from the moment he was drafted, until the moment he actually played some football on a field.
You could be right, but from what I saw he has to continue to develop. He has yet to appear ready to start, and granted, AB does not look ready either. But I trust we have our 5 best out there at the moment.
If he was playing/practicing injured, it seems likely that he would not appear ready to start. Everyone seems to keep discounting/diminishing the injury.
You could be right, but I went to 2 of the open VMAC practices, and there was no talk of being hurt at the start of preseason, and he was taken out of the RG competition pretty early on. He was moved to center, and then taken out of that and was working as Zabel’s back up when the injury upped up and he was no longer practicing. It looked like AB beat him before the injury. But again, that’s just based on what I saw and heard in the preseason. It’s possible he was suffering even before preseason. I’m not necessarily discounting it, just saying it was not even a topic up until much later in preseason. He is young, and hopefully he and AB will play better in the future.
Macdonald first mentioned the pec injury on August 3, so the Sunday before the first preseason game (Aug 7). So, he was hurt some time before that. Probably during the second week of training camp, which began on July 22. During the first week of training camp, many seemed very high on Haynes. During the second week, he started to have issues. The general timing matches, and there are no official injury reports during the offseason program, so that's about as good as we can get for an injury like this.
During the offseason I was pushing hard for Schneider to go get a guard like Fries, because I was convinced he'd NEVER go high enough in the draft to get a quality guard. But he surprised me, got Zabel, so I immediately changed horses and now agree with you, I'm very glad we didn't sign an expensive guard.
I just always go with the idea that JS knows better than I do, so I change my tune in a heartbeat once he makes the call. He could make the wrong call, he has made the wrong call, but that goes with the job. It’s never a sure thing one way of another. He’s better than most, and probably much better than who would replace him.
I agree Danno, as my grandson would say “lots and lots” of changes on offense. I would love to see some of the 4th quarter passing atttempst be replaced with successful run attempts.
I’d love to see the running game have more success as well. But as long as the commitment to it keeps us facing the highest stacked heavy boxes, that will lead to continued success in the passing game. I can’t wait for Sunday night!
the O line may have been a two year development plan from the beginning. As you and other have noted KK had a crazy amount of procedural penalties in NO so maybe slow walking it a bit in 2025???
I think we’re one round 2 IOL pick away from the next level. In the meantime the pass protection is decent and the run game has been effective in forging defenses to respect it, even if it has not succeeded as I’d hoped.
For me, the stats confirm how I feel about this years team. Entering a game with expected despair and anxiety, has been replaced with excitement and hope. Very fun this year! Thank you SJoe!
Yeah it just feels like when you eliminate a lot of those negative plays, i.e. turnovers and sacks, and everything else stays roughly the same, the aura of the team gets a lot more positive.
“The Seahawks kind of need another third down threat.”
They need another receiver besides JSN who doesn’t depend on scheme to get open. Arguably their top need.
Ya. Is it just a google search or something? Just curious.
You can search for tweets on twitter. If you want to search for tweets in a specific time frame, you can use the advanced search function.
Thanks Ken. Not a Twitter user and often wondered how people pull up and reference old tweets.
I gave up twitter for Bluesky. So far I find it less belligerent.
Then you are among the sane people left in the world.
WOW! A lot of stats...got so lost in the weeds I'm still missing. That many stats is too much like Baseball for my comfort. I'm more of an X's and O's dude myself...understanding that even simple visuals like X's and O's can be confusing as the same drawn up play will work like clockwork or fall apart as the ability of each X or O to execute the plan may vary greatly. Still, I can see what's SUPPOSED to happen. I suspect Tic-Tac-Toe was a gateway drug for me. If I understand the emplications of all those names and numbers, the Hawks are heaed for a Division Championship...if I don't...we'll get a really early day one draft pick next year. A win-win right?
As far as stats go, I thought this article was pretty tame. Touchdowns, interceptions, passing yards. It's just split by down by situations and football is a situational game.
I think you understand the implications fine!
In my opinion, here is what I would attribute the offensive change to:
1) Kubiak (Sea Hawk Run! posted a great video on Running the ball. Something Grubb did not do!).
1B) Kubiak affect on O-Line plus O-line growth and Zabel
2) JSN
3) Health
Sam Darnold has done a good job of grabbing the QB torch and keeping it held high. The Seahawks haven't had bad QB play since Tarvaris Jackson! That is great news. But I see SD as a continuation of Geno not a revelation. The big news is that he is younger, and I do think he can get better still (He has lost two games in the final drive!).
For me, I just think it is a huge win for the Seahawks that SD is playing well. The risk in the offseason was taking a ride on the QB roulette wheel while the team around the QB is in year 4 of the rebuild and should be looking accelerate into the SB window. A bad QB would have halted that progress in its tracks.
Hoping for health, continued growth, and a strong finish to the season! Then we will see SD face his demons of big-time pressure football under a microscope. I think he will do just fine and looking forward to hopefully a good playoff run.
The offense was rebuilt from hiring Kubiak in January. I don't know what you mean by a 4-year window. It was an easier transition for Sam Darnold to be on the Seahawks in 2025 than it would have been for Geno Smith, which is why the two sides agreed to part ways.
I considered this year 4 of the rebuild that started when we traded RW and piled up draft picks. (Seahawks would never call it a "rebuild" but that is what happened).
Now those draft picks are in their "senior" year and coming together nicely which has been building over the last 4 years. I think the entire roster has pretty much been turned over at this point. It's coming together, and it is time to hit the gas pedal and try to win the whole thing, IMO.
If Geno is in it for a SB, he must now be spewing he departed. Obviously, he didn’t think the ‘rebuild’ was working.
Yeah … add DK to that list too.
Just think the relationship ran its course. He said he never felt apart of the team. Mike Mac has talked about that being a weakness of his he tried to improve in year 2.
In the end, think it’s all fine. Worked out well for the Hawks with SD and I think Mike Mac has improved.
No, I don't think the Seahawks have done any rebuilding since they hired Pete Carroll initially. But of course, this is a matter of semantics unless a team really rips the team down from top to bottom. Trading Russell Wilson to make the team better wouldn't go down as a rebuild in my book and I've been saying the same thing since 2022.
Well … just the way I see it then I guess.
I always viewed the trading the “Franchise” QB for (I think) 5 draft picks as the start of the rebuild. Two tackles drafted in 2022 as building blocks.
Most NFL teams go through cycles, we are just coming out of the building portion, IMO.
The team is now significantly younger and I don’t think has a player from the 2021 roster on it.
In keeping with this theme, the OL has drastically improved its pass protection over last year. The Seahawks have currently allowed 60 total pressures by OL with 5 sacks, 11 QB hits, and 44 QB hurries, with 9 OL penalties. Going into week 9 last year, they had allowed 12 sacks, 15 QB hits, and 85 QB hurries for 112 total pressures, and 26 OL penalties. Stats from PFF Premium.
Good to get some added info there. Pressures are a marriage of OL and QB and coaching and non-OL blockers like RBs and TEs...Pretty obvious that the Seahawks have better players protecting the QB this year and I think Darnold's been good about not holding onto the ball too long or running into pressure.
I only included pressures/penalties credited to OL. Walker also has a sack allowed, I think, and the other 3 of Darnold's 9 sacks are likely credited to him (coverage sacks)
Nice, good to know that distinction. I've heard coach All-22 say that pressures are often really a credit to coaching staff and scheme. A pressure could even be something the OL allows to happen.
So that's what Stone Forsythe was doing...
Not once have I heard anyone anywhere say anything to the effect "I sure do miss DK and or Geno, I wish we had him or them back ". Lol 😆. Remeber when almost everyone was losing their minds and thought we were just tanking and rebuilding....ha! Thanks SSJ for the breakdown. My only concern is that the Seahawks will be a good, yet untested, team rolling into the playoffs. Rams and Colts provide a little better insight but still...
Coaches have a lot of experience. Macdonald went to the playoffs a lot as a Harbaugh underling. Kubiak went to a lot of playoffs and the Super Bowl in 2023. Aden Durde helped the Cowboys win a lot of games. Leslie Frazier's been around forever. John Benton's been around forever. Teams can't expect to win playoff games later, they need to do it whenever they get the chance because it may not come around again. Are the Eagles a more dangerous team because of experience or an easier team to plan for because of experience?
Ultimately I don't think we can boil down anybody's playoffs to a single factor of why they got eliminated other than this: Eagles, Packers, Lions, Bucs, Rams, Seahawks, 49ers...the best teams are in the NFC. Only one gets out.
Where do you get those old Twitter posts from?
Like how do I find them?
Watching moons v chiefs...I'm not saying the moons are building a culture of cheap shoting sons a bitchery, but we better be on guard.
I’m confident that Geno would have much better stats this year with the new offense than he did last year with Grubb. I was disappointed that we lost him, and didn’t know much about Darnold, so I stayed neutral and kept an open mind.
After seven games, it’s clear that Darnold is an upgrade. Both QBs operate at a high level and can pass accurately down the field. Where Darnold excels is his pinpoint accuracy in tight windows (and JSN’s reliability in those situations as the #1 receiver.) Now add Darnold’s zen-like focus. I think he learned the value of unflappability from his time with Purdy.
I don’t know that Darnold would have played better than Geno on this team last year. I felt that Geno excelled at escaping the interior pass rush and playing on instinct. If his time to pass was long, it was because his protection failed so quickly that he had to bail. Where Geno did poorly was when his first reads weren’t open and his protection was good. He’d have time to overthink things and likely force an interception. Sam’s decision making seems to come from a quieter place.
I’m glad I kept an open mind on Sam. He’s dang good. If I have a fear, it’s that the ability to make tight window throws can go to the passer’s head. The day that they are slightly off and confidently passing with no margin for error is a bad day.
Let’s hope Sam gets more comfortable with other targets, so he has all the options available to him.
And best wishes to Geno. I hope he and his new offense improve.
With an OC who seems as bad as Grubb was for the NFL, it's hard to say. I'm glad we don't have to find out. The Seahawks are better off this season either way.
The passing offense is so much better his year, and that’s all the team did last year was pass.
SSJ nails it in that the Hawks need to work on finding receivers other than JUST JSN on third downs. Come playoff time, teams will likely take away your first and second options. And the Hawks need to be ready. And yes Jim Mora, I’m talking playoffs.
WATCH. THIS. VIDEO.
https://youtu.be/pPXZlK9puqw?si=_x7c9WNFyNc0zHC0
It asks if running matters. The Seahawks are the central team. It’s really well done. And the answer might surprise you.
(I have no stake in it. It’s just on topic for the Joes.)
Outstanding! Knowing humor aids education and employing it are very rare. Such use of the Internet is a game changer both for people born to Teach and those looking to learn. From Home, no less. In our spare time. Our Founding Fathers dreamed proper governance would lead to all enjoying the highest of educations as the root pursuit of Man. We may just now be tapping into this possibility. Make Grades not War!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
This is incredible.
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.
The fellow who made it is a Seahawks fan. I saw it yesterday. I am not a stats guy, but I do appreciate other people presenting stats in a way that is understandable and make sense.
I am hopeful and I believe that hope is justified, in that the Hawks offense will improve in the 2nd half of the season much like the defense improved last year. So many new players and coaches learning to work together. I do feel there is still a possibility we see a trade that might improve the team in a marginal way. I just think JS has his line drawn on how far he will go to get a player. I’ve heard it said that sometimes you have to over pay to get a player if you want to improve. That can often lead to disastrous consequences. I’m a fan of his restraint. RG is the only position on the Hawks that is terribly below the bar. But how many RGs are on the market and what is the sticker price? How is Will Fries working out for the Vikings? Awesome restraint, John!
I'm still not convinced that Christian Haynes isn't the guy for RG, like so many seem to be. He was the early leader in the RG competition, then AB started to take over. There were also reports during that time of the pectoral injury that he missed some time for, but we still saw him playing some at LG and he seemed to disappear from the RG competition.
Towards the end of the preseason, we saw more pectoral injury reports, and then he goes on IR now through 8 weeks in the regular season. I don't buy the narrative that they "stashed" him on IR. I tend to think that if he was placed on IR for 8 weeks+, then we are looking at a legitimate injury that started some time around the second week of training camp, which kept him from continuing in the competition for starting RG.
It may have taken them some time to figure out the extent of his injury, but it obviously kept him from even practicing until this week when he has been eligible to return for a few weeks now. All while AB has been stinking it up at RG.
My calculus will change if he is cleared to return and they still keep him on the sidelines, but until then, he has been sidelined/limited since early August with an injury in my eyes.
I don't recall if there was a time when Christian Haynes was ever leading a competition at right guard. In OTAs and minicamp, him and Bradford were treated as equals, at best, and the Seahawks were toying with Haynes as a center.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seahawks/comments/1l8fnzs/bob_condottas_minicamp_personnel_notes_christian/
Maybe "leading" was the wrong term. There was a time where Haynes being a starter on the Seahawks OL was generally seen as likely to happen, although there was no word from the team in that regard. When that changed was at the same time his pectoral injury was also being reported.
I thought it would happen, I think I even wrote a newsletter about it myself. But then camp started and it went straight downhill. Maybe from injury, who knows.
I might be mistaken, but the time Haynes was seen as a starter extended from the moment he was drafted, until the moment he actually played some football on a field.
I'm talking about the 2025 RG competition.
You could be right, but from what I saw he has to continue to develop. He has yet to appear ready to start, and granted, AB does not look ready either. But I trust we have our 5 best out there at the moment.
If he was playing/practicing injured, it seems likely that he would not appear ready to start. Everyone seems to keep discounting/diminishing the injury.
You could be right, but I went to 2 of the open VMAC practices, and there was no talk of being hurt at the start of preseason, and he was taken out of the RG competition pretty early on. He was moved to center, and then taken out of that and was working as Zabel’s back up when the injury upped up and he was no longer practicing. It looked like AB beat him before the injury. But again, that’s just based on what I saw and heard in the preseason. It’s possible he was suffering even before preseason. I’m not necessarily discounting it, just saying it was not even a topic up until much later in preseason. He is young, and hopefully he and AB will play better in the future.
Macdonald first mentioned the pec injury on August 3, so the Sunday before the first preseason game (Aug 7). So, he was hurt some time before that. Probably during the second week of training camp, which began on July 22. During the first week of training camp, many seemed very high on Haynes. During the second week, he started to have issues. The general timing matches, and there are no official injury reports during the offseason program, so that's about as good as we can get for an injury like this.
You could be right. I hope for the Seahawks sake someone takes a bug step up in performance at RG.
During the offseason I was pushing hard for Schneider to go get a guard like Fries, because I was convinced he'd NEVER go high enough in the draft to get a quality guard. But he surprised me, got Zabel, so I immediately changed horses and now agree with you, I'm very glad we didn't sign an expensive guard.
That is true. If we had known that the team would draft Zabel, it would have changed the narrative about the need to sign Fries.
I just always go with the idea that JS knows better than I do, so I change my tune in a heartbeat once he makes the call. He could make the wrong call, he has made the wrong call, but that goes with the job. It’s never a sure thing one way of another. He’s better than most, and probably much better than who would replace him.
I agree Danno, as my grandson would say “lots and lots” of changes on offense. I would love to see some of the 4th quarter passing atttempst be replaced with successful run attempts.
I’d love to see the running game have more success as well. But as long as the commitment to it keeps us facing the highest stacked heavy boxes, that will lead to continued success in the passing game. I can’t wait for Sunday night!
the O line may have been a two year development plan from the beginning. As you and other have noted KK had a crazy amount of procedural penalties in NO so maybe slow walking it a bit in 2025???
I think we’re one round 2 IOL pick away from the next level. In the meantime the pass protection is decent and the run game has been effective in forging defenses to respect it, even if it has not succeeded as I’d hoped.
For me, the stats confirm how I feel about this years team. Entering a game with expected despair and anxiety, has been replaced with excitement and hope. Very fun this year! Thank you SJoe!
Yeah it just feels like when you eliminate a lot of those negative plays, i.e. turnovers and sacks, and everything else stays roughly the same, the aura of the team gets a lot more positive.