Well…I’m probably interpreting much of this article wrong, but to ME it comes across as a huge dump on Pete Carroll. And that just rubs me the wrong way.
I get the argument that it was time to change coaches. After a while, players tune out the same message. And yes, the defense was less than the sum of its parts.
But…
In my opinion, Pete Carroll has been the single most important Seahawk in team history. No player or other coach did as much as he did to make the Seahawks successful. And I’ll always think nothing but great things about him as a CB person and a coach.
I also understand that many others have different opinions. And that’s ok.
One point from the article I want to address is the off hand comment that some players wanted to see Pete fired. All that I’ve read is that some players wanted a change in their position coaches. I’ve seen nothing that says any players wanted Pete out.
I love SSJ and all the great content. It’s the best bargain in sports journalism. But this article just rubbed me the wrong way. Probably more an issue of ME than SSJ.
The offensive list isn’t much better, except for Metcalf and Lockett. The 2016-2017 drafts set the team back for the rest of the decade. (Russell pretty much carried them.) It’s why my confidence in Schneider is limited.
I took some time this weekend to do some post draft analysis of my own. The truth is, there is so much we won’t see as fans outside of the building - with Pete or MM. what I do think resonates with both of these coaches is that they care about their players and for that I am proud to call both of them Hawks coaches and it was still definitely time for a changing of the guard.
In terms of the draft I kept thinking about two things (FWIW from a novice spectator). One, I wonder how much the “system” these kids play in in college impacts their evaluation and “rate” to the point where maybe some draft grades kind of miss the point of difficulty? Is an average CB worth more if they played more variety or more challenging systems in college vs. someone who was observably more successful but in simpler, more talented teams/systems? Second, and kind in the same vein, if you have a kid whose instincts and drive are high, but their physical talents don’t jump off the page, AND you believe in your ability to teach them, wouldn’t you want to take that kid? If someone sees the game in a way that outweighs his physical talents, wouldn’t you bank on that guy? I would.
With regards to Pete, I'm not going to spend a lot of characters re-typing what I've typed before, other than to say, love the guy. I think he lost his way a bit in the last 5-6 years, and he didn't hire the quality of coaches he needed to succeed. Nuff said.
One thing that has stayed with me was something Dave Wyman said on a Seattle Sports broadcast. He said that when he watched tape of games from last year, he couldn't even tell what they were even trying to do. Here's a former NFL LB watching Seattle's defense, and he can't tell what they're doing. His conclusion......the players don't know either. One thing I am 99% certain about for this coming season is that the players will know their assignments. Mike Mac has already mentioned it a couple of times. They will get to clarity on defense. When they see x, they will know their assignment is y.
Further, they will know HOW he expects them to play out their assignment. You will execute your assignment and simultaneously make life generally miserable for the opposition. You will psychologically and physically frustrate the absolute crap out of them. They will not look forward to the next meeting with you.
If the coaching staff does nothing else, I will look at next season as a win if two things are accomplished. One, the players know their assignments. I know, it'll never be a 100% thing, but you know what I mean. We will not see a theme emerge (like we did last year on offense AND defense) where players seemed to be on different pages of the playbook. Two, they play with high effort and violence. If they fail, it will be because of technique or physical limitations. It won't be because they aren't putting their all into the play. Players will finish blocks. They will stay in the fight for the entire game.
Remember last year after a game when Clint Hurtt and Pete both lamented that they had drilled something in practice, only to see a player allow that very thing to succeed against them. First, I didn't like that they both gave a 'can't blame me' answer to that question. Second, how clear can it have been to the player? What were the reads you gave them? Had you been allowing them to play out of structure all season? Did the defensive call expose you to that very offensive play? Was the player in a no win situation defensively? Anyway, that's when I knew that we were screwed. If you practice a play, and the player still isn't clear on his assignment, then either you're not teaching it very well, you have players who aren't playing within the structure of the defense, or your defense is crap. Either way, it's a hot mess. Clint was not a good defensive coordinator.
Schneider is a great GM because he can put his finger on what ails us. We have a Team full of exceptional talent, but why are we not seeing it? He goes into the locker room after a game and asks. The Guys are tried, beat up and willing to speak their mind. Was today's win due to luck? Why? Confusion. Schemes were off. The problem? Coaching. Effort falls off as the season progresses. Every set progresses to 3rd down and passes out of bounds become the rule. Arghhh. Pete no longer has his mojo. I suspect Russ Wilson was speaking Truth to power and after the second year of his departure, JS agreed. Why? He wanted what everybody wants- another Super Bowl. Get them believing that is within reach and we will see our latent Talent rise to Blue Chip levels, which did not happen last year. Lucky wins will become few and far between. THEN the entire League comes gunning for you. Who would want that? True Football Players. There are no pussies on the field in this Game. It all comes down to resolve and tenacity. How do you get then keep that? By playing as One. I suspect Mack came here because he see's a group of guys ready to go there and the Talent to achieve it. Are the Gods of Football with us? Was THE BEST much-needed defense player available at 16? Are the Seahawks his Dream Team? The stars have aligned, folks.
Ironically I think we'll see the first true 'competition' in training camp this year since 2014. Across the board, at all positions. The best players play, not the best contracts. Huge battles coming in the trenches, and among the DB's as well.
Gotta say i'm very confused by the first gif and whether i've missed something in your writing?
FFC can live forever as a great for those four movies, three of which changed the landscape of cinema. He also gets points in my book for helping give us the career of Sofia Coppola who's a terrific director and unique female voice in relatively mainstream hollywood.
Back to football, and good coaches do not always make good Head coaches. Equally good head coaches can go bad. Pete was great and lost his touch. I don't think he could reinvent his technique as an HC as is required to be consistently successful. The best long term HC's adapt and change, Pete was always Pete. Love him for that, but meant he very much passed his expiration date. But boy, when he was good he was great! Forever happy I got experience those years.
The bottom line on D (according to most) is you have to have a good D-line! It makes the rest of the D better! (Kind of like the O-line ,except the QB). Starting fresh with a new coach and some new philosophies and a couple of new players on the D-line I believe they will be better. How much is yet to be seen. The biggest ? mark I think is the Linebackers. So we shall see, but I see them moving up to a mid-range D. Plus the O-line has to better, (health staying good) especially with all the incoming players to choose from and a new coach there. All that being said I envision a better team, and a playoff berth.. Go Hawks!
Also, I wanted to add that as I watch the AFI top 100 list, I’m starting my own. This is going to take a while because I completely forget about a top 20 like This is Spinal Tap until it comes up somewhere and I realize that this is kind of a big endeavor. My personal list will not feature long depressing epics that were monumental for their time, but what I enjoyed watching the most. Couldn’t help but notice that AFI’s list doesn’t have a single documentary. While Mrs Turtleman and I plan to find, rent, buy and watch them all, we are often underwhelmed considering every US film is under consideration.
Pete was a hell of a coach and until someone else wins a Super Bowl for the Seahawks, is the best we’ve ever had. I loved him. I loved his positivity, enthusiasm and mostly his laid back yet completely energetic nature. I didn’t want him to get fired this year. I will still argue that 2 winning seasons into a rebuild after trading your franchise quarterback was premature. I had the feels during his post game presser. I love that guy and I feel that he had the team going (quickly) in the right direction. So here we are.
And I don’t have any warm emotions for Mike Mac. I want him to win the Super Bowl every year because he now coaches my team, but I just don’t have an affinity towards him outside of admiring the Ravens and Michigan defenses. I am almost positive that will all change and quickly if this team over performs expectations.
I don’t know how much motivation matters with older professional athletes and maybe the ability to answer questions in ways only Pete could is less important than task focus. I do think Mike MacDonald is inheriting a pretty damn good team and situation. If he’s a great coach, this team can be a contender to make playoff noise. I’m aware that the Rams and Cardinals are getting better and SF still sits atop our division. But with good scheming this Seahawks team should be able to hang with anyone. And we will probably see more additions still coming. Maybe Quandre or another solid vet…
I grew up playing sports 90s to early 2000s. Every coach I ever saw or encountered were cut in the Bobby Knight/Bill Belichick mode unless it was low level sports where every kid has to play.
It may have changed anyways ... But I don't see how Pete Carroll's rise to success didn't have profound impacts on the coaching ranks through every sport.
Now when I watch young, high-level sports there has been an influx of positive coaches. I think that is a great thing.
Whether coaches directly attribute their coaching style to Pete or not, is irrelevant. The fact that a guy like Kalen DeBoer even has the chance to coach at UW is because positive coaching style is now widely accepted.
There’s nothing unusual about Coppola’s career. If it weren’t for The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and the best of his short stories, Hemingway would have a cult following at best. I’ve read and love William Faulkner, but even I will admit that he might well be forgotten if his bibliography was absent The Sound And The Fury; Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; Go Down, Moses; and The Portable Faulkner. Even the greatest have a peak.
As far as the present goes … I thought it was huge to go and get a coach that brings a tangible defense to the table. MM plays a modern style defense with simulated pressures. Which means you dont necessarily need a Bosa brother to get to the QB.
Will it work and how fast?
we need to look no further than the UW Huskies to see an example of what coaching can do in a short time period.
Could Clint Hurtt and the Vic Fangio style defense be similar to Jimmy Lake and Jon Donovan at UW? Very possible as no Vic Fangio defenses work unless coached by Vic himself. UW took mostly the same players (added Penix) and produced one of the best offenses in college.
That’s the hope for the defense and I don’t think it’s crazy. MMs defense appears more complex than it maybe (this is from the video Joe sent out) and from MM comments.
I certainly think it is possible to have a huge chance in defensive production in 2024 without much player change.
Pete Carroll is a CEO type head coach. I always get a little chuckle when saying it’s Pete Carroll defense. In a sense, yes it is his defense just as much as it’s the CEOs financial documents that the CFO prepares.
Pete Carrol came to power through the defensive side of the ball but hadn’t been a defensive coordinator since 1996.
Hr should be blamed for not adjusting to modern defense but he did try to move into a Vic Fangio defense. Unfortunately, all the Vic Fangio style defenses don’t work (outside of Vic himself). So it backfired and deserves blame.
But if Pete gets the blame for the defense you also have to credit him for the offense. This can clearly be seen moving from RW to Geno. What happened? The pass rate increased. Geno is a significantly better and more accurate pocket passer than Russ. So he allowed pass rates to increase to match the player. Conversely he rejected many, many people’s attempts to throw more with RW. Which proved to be very wrong in Denver.
At the end of the day, Pete’s tenure over the Seahawks led to (I think) third most wins in the NFL over that time period? Just incredible. And that was without a generational talent at QB.
Lack of playoff success? Maybe. But remember, huge amount of variance in 1 football game.
I get the feeling like Pete is at peace not coaching right now. He deserves it. His impact goes far beyond the walls in Renton.
As usual this draft can't be evaluated in the 1st year, but I do believe they got two excellent. plug and play players in round 1 and 3 in positions of great need ,DT and O G. Some of the rest may or may not work out. What's new? What I hope happens is that we finally forget the bend but don't break D and get a faster attacking scheme that produces more turnovers and gives the offense more plays.
Watching other teams eat up time of possession is boring.
If they make the playoffs this year, great. If not, with a full draft next year, it looks like a SB will be much closer.
"give the offense more plays." Hell yeah! What will if feel like to see the Seahawks win time of possession? That alone make us a better team offensively and defensively!
Haven’t checked actual stats but 1 - rush stats seemed to also go down when Ucheena went down. 2 - personal observation was that most of biggest issues with the rushing results were due to how horrible Taylor was. 3 - Brooks and BWagz were not attacking but playing more on their heals (unlike Knight our newest drafted LB). 4 - Adams is absolutely an atrocious tackler. Hitter yes decent. Tackler terrible. Again I contend we were a 5-2 defense and when the OLine got their blocks there was no one at the next level to come up and tackle. Saw Williams and/or Reed double teamed a lot getting worn out and with no big body relief thus and no attacking LB/S/Corner other than Spoon.
Well…I’m probably interpreting much of this article wrong, but to ME it comes across as a huge dump on Pete Carroll. And that just rubs me the wrong way.
I get the argument that it was time to change coaches. After a while, players tune out the same message. And yes, the defense was less than the sum of its parts.
But…
In my opinion, Pete Carroll has been the single most important Seahawk in team history. No player or other coach did as much as he did to make the Seahawks successful. And I’ll always think nothing but great things about him as a CB person and a coach.
I also understand that many others have different opinions. And that’s ok.
One point from the article I want to address is the off hand comment that some players wanted to see Pete fired. All that I’ve read is that some players wanted a change in their position coaches. I’ve seen nothing that says any players wanted Pete out.
I love SSJ and all the great content. It’s the best bargain in sports journalism. But this article just rubbed me the wrong way. Probably more an issue of ME than SSJ.
Seahawks defensive drafts from 2014-2020:
2014: Kevin-Pierre Louis, Cassius Marsh, Jimmy Staten, Eric Pinkens
2015: Frank Clark, Tye Smith, Kristjan Sokoli, Obum Gwacham, Ryan Murphy
2016: Jarren Reed, Quinton Jefferson
2017: Malik McDowell, Naz Jones, Lano Hill, Shaquill Griffin, Mike Tyson
2018: Rasheem Green, Tre Flowers, Shaquem Griffin, Jacob Martin
2019: Marquis Blair, Cody Barton, Ugo Amadi, Ben Burr-Kirven, Demarcus Christmas
2020: Jordyn Brooks, Darrell Taylor, Alton Robinson
I may have missed a couple. Even so, the coach hasn’t been born who can spin straw into gold.
Man, that's a disappointing list lol.
The offensive list isn’t much better, except for Metcalf and Lockett. The 2016-2017 drafts set the team back for the rest of the decade. (Russell pretty much carried them.) It’s why my confidence in Schneider is limited.
Let's hope 2022-2025 drafts make up for the "lost years". We should have a good amount of picks next year
I took some time this weekend to do some post draft analysis of my own. The truth is, there is so much we won’t see as fans outside of the building - with Pete or MM. what I do think resonates with both of these coaches is that they care about their players and for that I am proud to call both of them Hawks coaches and it was still definitely time for a changing of the guard.
In terms of the draft I kept thinking about two things (FWIW from a novice spectator). One, I wonder how much the “system” these kids play in in college impacts their evaluation and “rate” to the point where maybe some draft grades kind of miss the point of difficulty? Is an average CB worth more if they played more variety or more challenging systems in college vs. someone who was observably more successful but in simpler, more talented teams/systems? Second, and kind in the same vein, if you have a kid whose instincts and drive are high, but their physical talents don’t jump off the page, AND you believe in your ability to teach them, wouldn’t you want to take that kid? If someone sees the game in a way that outweighs his physical talents, wouldn’t you bank on that guy? I would.
First, loved the article. Very well written.
With regards to Pete, I'm not going to spend a lot of characters re-typing what I've typed before, other than to say, love the guy. I think he lost his way a bit in the last 5-6 years, and he didn't hire the quality of coaches he needed to succeed. Nuff said.
One thing that has stayed with me was something Dave Wyman said on a Seattle Sports broadcast. He said that when he watched tape of games from last year, he couldn't even tell what they were even trying to do. Here's a former NFL LB watching Seattle's defense, and he can't tell what they're doing. His conclusion......the players don't know either. One thing I am 99% certain about for this coming season is that the players will know their assignments. Mike Mac has already mentioned it a couple of times. They will get to clarity on defense. When they see x, they will know their assignment is y.
Further, they will know HOW he expects them to play out their assignment. You will execute your assignment and simultaneously make life generally miserable for the opposition. You will psychologically and physically frustrate the absolute crap out of them. They will not look forward to the next meeting with you.
If the coaching staff does nothing else, I will look at next season as a win if two things are accomplished. One, the players know their assignments. I know, it'll never be a 100% thing, but you know what I mean. We will not see a theme emerge (like we did last year on offense AND defense) where players seemed to be on different pages of the playbook. Two, they play with high effort and violence. If they fail, it will be because of technique or physical limitations. It won't be because they aren't putting their all into the play. Players will finish blocks. They will stay in the fight for the entire game.
Remember last year after a game when Clint Hurtt and Pete both lamented that they had drilled something in practice, only to see a player allow that very thing to succeed against them. First, I didn't like that they both gave a 'can't blame me' answer to that question. Second, how clear can it have been to the player? What were the reads you gave them? Had you been allowing them to play out of structure all season? Did the defensive call expose you to that very offensive play? Was the player in a no win situation defensively? Anyway, that's when I knew that we were screwed. If you practice a play, and the player still isn't clear on his assignment, then either you're not teaching it very well, you have players who aren't playing within the structure of the defense, or your defense is crap. Either way, it's a hot mess. Clint was not a good defensive coordinator.
Schneider is a great GM because he can put his finger on what ails us. We have a Team full of exceptional talent, but why are we not seeing it? He goes into the locker room after a game and asks. The Guys are tried, beat up and willing to speak their mind. Was today's win due to luck? Why? Confusion. Schemes were off. The problem? Coaching. Effort falls off as the season progresses. Every set progresses to 3rd down and passes out of bounds become the rule. Arghhh. Pete no longer has his mojo. I suspect Russ Wilson was speaking Truth to power and after the second year of his departure, JS agreed. Why? He wanted what everybody wants- another Super Bowl. Get them believing that is within reach and we will see our latent Talent rise to Blue Chip levels, which did not happen last year. Lucky wins will become few and far between. THEN the entire League comes gunning for you. Who would want that? True Football Players. There are no pussies on the field in this Game. It all comes down to resolve and tenacity. How do you get then keep that? By playing as One. I suspect Mack came here because he see's a group of guys ready to go there and the Talent to achieve it. Are the Gods of Football with us? Was THE BEST much-needed defense player available at 16? Are the Seahawks his Dream Team? The stars have aligned, folks.
Ironically I think we'll see the first true 'competition' in training camp this year since 2014. Across the board, at all positions. The best players play, not the best contracts. Huge battles coming in the trenches, and among the DB's as well.
That last line should be all CAPS. Big guy shoulda stayed a position coach.
Gotta say i'm very confused by the first gif and whether i've missed something in your writing?
FFC can live forever as a great for those four movies, three of which changed the landscape of cinema. He also gets points in my book for helping give us the career of Sofia Coppola who's a terrific director and unique female voice in relatively mainstream hollywood.
Back to football, and good coaches do not always make good Head coaches. Equally good head coaches can go bad. Pete was great and lost his touch. I don't think he could reinvent his technique as an HC as is required to be consistently successful. The best long term HC's adapt and change, Pete was always Pete. Love him for that, but meant he very much passed his expiration date. But boy, when he was good he was great! Forever happy I got experience those years.
ITS DIANE KEATON'S BROTHER! (One for the B99 fans)
Mrs Doubtfire? Or was that part of the joke I missed
Almost definitely Mrs Doubtfire, it's the shot as Sally Field comes through the front door during the birthday party.
I was thinking the same thing - that gif is from that not movie not Jack. One of my favorites as a kid and very nostalgic even today.
The bottom line on D (according to most) is you have to have a good D-line! It makes the rest of the D better! (Kind of like the O-line ,except the QB). Starting fresh with a new coach and some new philosophies and a couple of new players on the D-line I believe they will be better. How much is yet to be seen. The biggest ? mark I think is the Linebackers. So we shall see, but I see them moving up to a mid-range D. Plus the O-line has to better, (health staying good) especially with all the incoming players to choose from and a new coach there. All that being said I envision a better team, and a playoff berth.. Go Hawks!
That was a REALLY long way to go just for that punchline. But, I, for one, appreciate how intricately you weave your wordplay tapestry.
Also, I wanted to add that as I watch the AFI top 100 list, I’m starting my own. This is going to take a while because I completely forget about a top 20 like This is Spinal Tap until it comes up somewhere and I realize that this is kind of a big endeavor. My personal list will not feature long depressing epics that were monumental for their time, but what I enjoyed watching the most. Couldn’t help but notice that AFI’s list doesn’t have a single documentary. While Mrs Turtleman and I plan to find, rent, buy and watch them all, we are often underwhelmed considering every US film is under consideration.
Pete was a hell of a coach and until someone else wins a Super Bowl for the Seahawks, is the best we’ve ever had. I loved him. I loved his positivity, enthusiasm and mostly his laid back yet completely energetic nature. I didn’t want him to get fired this year. I will still argue that 2 winning seasons into a rebuild after trading your franchise quarterback was premature. I had the feels during his post game presser. I love that guy and I feel that he had the team going (quickly) in the right direction. So here we are.
And I don’t have any warm emotions for Mike Mac. I want him to win the Super Bowl every year because he now coaches my team, but I just don’t have an affinity towards him outside of admiring the Ravens and Michigan defenses. I am almost positive that will all change and quickly if this team over performs expectations.
I don’t know how much motivation matters with older professional athletes and maybe the ability to answer questions in ways only Pete could is less important than task focus. I do think Mike MacDonald is inheriting a pretty damn good team and situation. If he’s a great coach, this team can be a contender to make playoff noise. I’m aware that the Rams and Cardinals are getting better and SF still sits atop our division. But with good scheming this Seahawks team should be able to hang with anyone. And we will probably see more additions still coming. Maybe Quandre or another solid vet…
I agree and excellent comment.
I grew up playing sports 90s to early 2000s. Every coach I ever saw or encountered were cut in the Bobby Knight/Bill Belichick mode unless it was low level sports where every kid has to play.
It may have changed anyways ... But I don't see how Pete Carroll's rise to success didn't have profound impacts on the coaching ranks through every sport.
Now when I watch young, high-level sports there has been an influx of positive coaches. I think that is a great thing.
Whether coaches directly attribute their coaching style to Pete or not, is irrelevant. The fact that a guy like Kalen DeBoer even has the chance to coach at UW is because positive coaching style is now widely accepted.
There’s nothing unusual about Coppola’s career. If it weren’t for The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and the best of his short stories, Hemingway would have a cult following at best. I’ve read and love William Faulkner, but even I will admit that he might well be forgotten if his bibliography was absent The Sound And The Fury; Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; Go Down, Moses; and The Portable Faulkner. Even the greatest have a peak.
BTW, Scorsese has had a steadier career than Coppola, but to me only Raging Bull ranks with the best of Coppola.
As far as the present goes … I thought it was huge to go and get a coach that brings a tangible defense to the table. MM plays a modern style defense with simulated pressures. Which means you dont necessarily need a Bosa brother to get to the QB.
Will it work and how fast?
we need to look no further than the UW Huskies to see an example of what coaching can do in a short time period.
Could Clint Hurtt and the Vic Fangio style defense be similar to Jimmy Lake and Jon Donovan at UW? Very possible as no Vic Fangio defenses work unless coached by Vic himself. UW took mostly the same players (added Penix) and produced one of the best offenses in college.
That’s the hope for the defense and I don’t think it’s crazy. MMs defense appears more complex than it maybe (this is from the video Joe sent out) and from MM comments.
I certainly think it is possible to have a huge chance in defensive production in 2024 without much player change.
Pete Carroll is a CEO type head coach. I always get a little chuckle when saying it’s Pete Carroll defense. In a sense, yes it is his defense just as much as it’s the CEOs financial documents that the CFO prepares.
Pete Carrol came to power through the defensive side of the ball but hadn’t been a defensive coordinator since 1996.
Hr should be blamed for not adjusting to modern defense but he did try to move into a Vic Fangio defense. Unfortunately, all the Vic Fangio style defenses don’t work (outside of Vic himself). So it backfired and deserves blame.
But if Pete gets the blame for the defense you also have to credit him for the offense. This can clearly be seen moving from RW to Geno. What happened? The pass rate increased. Geno is a significantly better and more accurate pocket passer than Russ. So he allowed pass rates to increase to match the player. Conversely he rejected many, many people’s attempts to throw more with RW. Which proved to be very wrong in Denver.
At the end of the day, Pete’s tenure over the Seahawks led to (I think) third most wins in the NFL over that time period? Just incredible. And that was without a generational talent at QB.
Lack of playoff success? Maybe. But remember, huge amount of variance in 1 football game.
I get the feeling like Pete is at peace not coaching right now. He deserves it. His impact goes far beyond the walls in Renton.
Double rec on this, Mike McD. The Early Pete made watching the Seahawks very enjoyable.
As KenJoe shows in this newsletter Times change 'n leave some giants in their fields behind.
Gratitude to Pete for the fun times.
As usual this draft can't be evaluated in the 1st year, but I do believe they got two excellent. plug and play players in round 1 and 3 in positions of great need ,DT and O G. Some of the rest may or may not work out. What's new? What I hope happens is that we finally forget the bend but don't break D and get a faster attacking scheme that produces more turnovers and gives the offense more plays.
Watching other teams eat up time of possession is boring.
If they make the playoffs this year, great. If not, with a full draft next year, it looks like a SB will be much closer.
"give the offense more plays." Hell yeah! What will if feel like to see the Seahawks win time of possession? That alone make us a better team offensively and defensively!
Yes Sir, that would be definitely a lot more enjoyable to watch for us.
Haven’t checked actual stats but 1 - rush stats seemed to also go down when Ucheena went down. 2 - personal observation was that most of biggest issues with the rushing results were due to how horrible Taylor was. 3 - Brooks and BWagz were not attacking but playing more on their heals (unlike Knight our newest drafted LB). 4 - Adams is absolutely an atrocious tackler. Hitter yes decent. Tackler terrible. Again I contend we were a 5-2 defense and when the OLine got their blocks there was no one at the next level to come up and tackle. Saw Williams and/or Reed double teamed a lot getting worn out and with no big body relief thus and no attacking LB/S/Corner other than Spoon.
I'd rather watch Liar, Liar over The Godfather.