Sunday, November 09, 2003
ABSOLUTE BULL$H!+
Okay. There's no way in hell the Seahawks should have lost that game. There's many directions in which to point the finger, not the only one of which is Darrell Jackson, but first...
Darrell Jackson. He muffed that last pass when Hass was doing a great job driving the Seahawks down the field with under two minutes left and after their three second-half timeouts were stupidly burned, including one just short of the two-minute warning in the 4th qtr. Jackson also dropped a pass earlier in the game.
Shawn Springs. I know I saw him get burned at least two or three times, but I can't name the instances in particular. Just trust me on this one, because a Seahawk bitch-fest is traveling through my mind right now. He's past his prime, and he better not be with the Seahawks next year.
Maurice Morris. Sure he had a couple decent kickoff returns, a couple nice runs...but to muff the opening kickoff? Absolutely frigging inexcusable. Sure, the Redskins only got three points off that turnover, but that's a horrible tone-setter for the game when you turn the ball over before you've even snapped it.
Damien Robinson. You've picked the damn ball. HOLD ON TO THE DAMN BALL!!! You're so deep into Redskin territory that you're probably going to get points anyway, so don't try to be fancy and get the TD there. The entire game turned on that damn play. The score right then was Hawks 14-3. Instead of Hawks 21-3, it was Hawks 14-10, almost as a direct result.
But I think possibly an even bigger play than the blown TD pick was...
The stupid-ass pass interference call later on that drive. On a THIRD-AND-7, Shawn Springs got the pick, but got nailed for pass interference, and that was basically the game. My first inclinations wanted me to blame the refs for this, so I'll stick with that for the moment and give Springs the benefit of the doubt until I get the chance to see the play again. [Just saw the photo link Jeremy posted...SHAWN SPRINGS SUCKS.]
One final thing I have to say about this bullcrap Seahawk loss though...
RAY RHODES IS OPEN TO CRITICISM. Hopefully all of you realize this. Sure, he was hailed as the cure-all to the woes of this defense and everything. I'm not saying there hasn't been improvement over last year, because there definitely has been improvement. But with this team, it seems like their play is great at times but horribly inopportune at others. There were multiple times in the game today where I thought the Seahawks D was gonna blow it on third down (and they did), and one of them was a 3rd-and-8 where Ramsay had somebody wide open. And oh yeah, how many times did you see Ramsay knocked on his ass today?? I think I MIGHT have seen that ONCE all day. This team puts no pressure on the quarterback, and I don't know how much the absence of Norman Hand has to do with that, but the guys on the field still have to pick it up.
In some ways, this is the same Seahawk team today that we've seen most of the year (maybe sans the Green Bay game). The only difference now is that the opposing teams seem like they're doing a lot better job of exposing the Seahawks weaknesses that were always there, but the Hawks could wriggle their way out of their mistakes. Now the mistakes are catching up to them.
And the sick thing is...instead of hearing about the 7-2 Seahawks and how they're in the drivers seat, we're gonna hear about Spurrier going for it on 4th-and-inches ALL FRIGGING WEEK from the national press. Daaaaammmmmmiiitttt!!!!
And Pat Ramsay wasn't sacked ONCE!!! He's led the league in being sacked!! That means THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE SUCKS!!! The Seahawks didn't sack him once today, which means THEIR DEFENSIVE LINE SUCKS!!!! Also, I saw a graphic where Matt Hasselbeck was 4th in the NFL in number of times being sacked.
There was also a graphic today in the game somewhere where they showed the average yardage-to-go that the teams had on third down. It basically said that the Redskins were getting a lot of 3rd-and-2s and 3rd-and-3s whereas the Seahawks were getting a steady stream of 3rd-and-8s. That tells us two things. The Hawks were probably running Shaun Alexander straight into the pile on first and second down, or running him in combination with an incomplete pass. The other thing it tells me is that THE HAWKS DEFENSE IS SUCKING ON FIRST AND SECOND DOWN TO THE POINT WHERE THEY DON'T EVEN GIVE THEMSELVES A CHANCE ON THIRD DOWN!!!!
The Seahawks and the Canucks are similar in at least one way this year...both teams suck on the road, but the Canucks usually win the games they should win on the road, and they seem to have less weaknesses, though that one weakness is the goalie. The Seahawks defense is tattered, and the offense never seems to use as many weapons as they should. Koren was barely catching any passes at all the last couple weeks, and that seems like something that should never be passed over. It always seems like something's missing, whether it's Koren, whether it's Mo Morris out of the backfield, or whether it's throwing short passes to Shaun Alexander, which seems like it would work.
Okay, my Seattle Seahawks bitchfest is over for the time being. Move along now, nothing to see here...
Darrell Jackson. He muffed that last pass when Hass was doing a great job driving the Seahawks down the field with under two minutes left and after their three second-half timeouts were stupidly burned, including one just short of the two-minute warning in the 4th qtr. Jackson also dropped a pass earlier in the game.
Shawn Springs. I know I saw him get burned at least two or three times, but I can't name the instances in particular. Just trust me on this one, because a Seahawk bitch-fest is traveling through my mind right now. He's past his prime, and he better not be with the Seahawks next year.
Maurice Morris. Sure he had a couple decent kickoff returns, a couple nice runs...but to muff the opening kickoff? Absolutely frigging inexcusable. Sure, the Redskins only got three points off that turnover, but that's a horrible tone-setter for the game when you turn the ball over before you've even snapped it.
Damien Robinson. You've picked the damn ball. HOLD ON TO THE DAMN BALL!!! You're so deep into Redskin territory that you're probably going to get points anyway, so don't try to be fancy and get the TD there. The entire game turned on that damn play. The score right then was Hawks 14-3. Instead of Hawks 21-3, it was Hawks 14-10, almost as a direct result.
But I think possibly an even bigger play than the blown TD pick was...
The stupid-ass pass interference call later on that drive. On a THIRD-AND-7, Shawn Springs got the pick, but got nailed for pass interference, and that was basically the game. My first inclinations wanted me to blame the refs for this, so I'll stick with that for the moment and give Springs the benefit of the doubt until I get the chance to see the play again. [Just saw the photo link Jeremy posted...SHAWN SPRINGS SUCKS.]
One final thing I have to say about this bullcrap Seahawk loss though...
RAY RHODES IS OPEN TO CRITICISM. Hopefully all of you realize this. Sure, he was hailed as the cure-all to the woes of this defense and everything. I'm not saying there hasn't been improvement over last year, because there definitely has been improvement. But with this team, it seems like their play is great at times but horribly inopportune at others. There were multiple times in the game today where I thought the Seahawks D was gonna blow it on third down (and they did), and one of them was a 3rd-and-8 where Ramsay had somebody wide open. And oh yeah, how many times did you see Ramsay knocked on his ass today?? I think I MIGHT have seen that ONCE all day. This team puts no pressure on the quarterback, and I don't know how much the absence of Norman Hand has to do with that, but the guys on the field still have to pick it up.
In some ways, this is the same Seahawk team today that we've seen most of the year (maybe sans the Green Bay game). The only difference now is that the opposing teams seem like they're doing a lot better job of exposing the Seahawks weaknesses that were always there, but the Hawks could wriggle their way out of their mistakes. Now the mistakes are catching up to them.
And the sick thing is...instead of hearing about the 7-2 Seahawks and how they're in the drivers seat, we're gonna hear about Spurrier going for it on 4th-and-inches ALL FRIGGING WEEK from the national press. Daaaaammmmmmiiitttt!!!!
And Pat Ramsay wasn't sacked ONCE!!! He's led the league in being sacked!! That means THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE SUCKS!!! The Seahawks didn't sack him once today, which means THEIR DEFENSIVE LINE SUCKS!!!! Also, I saw a graphic where Matt Hasselbeck was 4th in the NFL in number of times being sacked.
There was also a graphic today in the game somewhere where they showed the average yardage-to-go that the teams had on third down. It basically said that the Redskins were getting a lot of 3rd-and-2s and 3rd-and-3s whereas the Seahawks were getting a steady stream of 3rd-and-8s. That tells us two things. The Hawks were probably running Shaun Alexander straight into the pile on first and second down, or running him in combination with an incomplete pass. The other thing it tells me is that THE HAWKS DEFENSE IS SUCKING ON FIRST AND SECOND DOWN TO THE POINT WHERE THEY DON'T EVEN GIVE THEMSELVES A CHANCE ON THIRD DOWN!!!!
The Seahawks and the Canucks are similar in at least one way this year...both teams suck on the road, but the Canucks usually win the games they should win on the road, and they seem to have less weaknesses, though that one weakness is the goalie. The Seahawks defense is tattered, and the offense never seems to use as many weapons as they should. Koren was barely catching any passes at all the last couple weeks, and that seems like something that should never be passed over. It always seems like something's missing, whether it's Koren, whether it's Mo Morris out of the backfield, or whether it's throwing short passes to Shaun Alexander, which seems like it would work.
Okay, my Seattle Seahawks bitchfest is over for the time being. Move along now, nothing to see here...
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