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Hawks embarrassed, 'twas quite the folly...
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They donned those Lime greens, such gay apparel...
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Alright, that's as far as I'm taking that.
Let the hand wringing begin! Be sure to lubriderm!
Grubb sucks!
Oline sucks!
Geno sucks!
Howell sucks even more!
Fire Schneider now!
Does that about cover it?
The cold hard reality is that Seattle got smoked by a better team, in a better division, and they were out coached and out schemed by a veteran staff. I'm not on the "fire anyone" bandwagon, I am simply tipping my cap to a much better team.
To be clear, 2024 Seahawks are not ready for prime time, or, NR4PT as I like to say. They are a top-three team in a weakened -four team division and I think we just watched their playoff chances walk out the door, no, check that, playoff hopes have been sacked. It's okay, it's alright.
This team is just too schizophrenic - I thought they would be able to be the team that is better than the sum of their parts - while they have good parts, and the defense is showing signs of what could be, the offense continues to be a huge liability - also - despite having good parts.
Last night I decided Geno has to go. I've been a big advocate for him, believed he gives us the best chance to win, has such a beautiful arm, but the kid has 14 INT's this season - many of them at critical times - as we saw last night. The INT in the end zone wasn't a drive killer, it was a game killer.
I saw no path back from that, and to make it worse, Seattle settling for field goals just is not going to get it done in a heavy weight match-up.
Some atrocious penalties. That opening drive hit on Jordan Love was so far out of bounds, so bad, he deserves a fine if not suspension - and if the NFL doesn't do it, Mike Macdonald needs to - that was embarrassing and as unsportsmanlike as it gets. Huge costly penalties were only part of the meltdown.
But let's give credit where credit is due - GB is the real deal, they made fantastic plays, Love was absolutely dialed in, making all the throws against Seattle's rush Geno simply is not making. The GB defense looks very formidable, bull rushing at will with only four. That's just a better all-round team.
Our kick returner was a bright spot!
I don't understand the play calling, which is easy to say when plays aren't working, but I legit don't understand long developing pass plays against huge pressure - it defies logic. We have some big receivers, where are the shorter, quick routes? Nah, I'm not ringing the 'fire Grubb" bell, this may be his learning curve, he will get better - he will adapt - or he won't. First season in the NFL is hard, from what I hear), and I have seen a lot of clever concepts in his book, I am holding out hope he is growing into the position, these are the growing pains - hopefully.
I see no path to the playoffs at this point - and I'm not even that disappointed. I don't want to see this shit show embarrassed. Their only shot is a wild card and it looks like both WC's will be coming from the NFC north - Minnesota and GB - and that is officially the toughest division in the NFL this year. They'll likely get smoked by Minnesota, give up against the Bears, and finish their streaky season on a four game losing streak when the suddenly angry Rams do what they always do to us when it matters - kick our lame asses to the curb like we're the JV team. In some ways, we are.
Time to consider draft positioning as a priority. Seattle has not had top picks in forever - last year's donkey pick excluded. We need another solid draft, need to add to the LB room, need to add to the receiver room, need to add to the QB room, and yeah, need some oline help. I still think there is talent on the oline, it just isn't coming together yet - and there is absolutely some culpability to be had in Ryan Grubb and his play calling that doesn't seem to take line play into account.
I honestly thought Seattle would take it to GB, make this their coming out party, and I suppose it was, but for all the wrong reasons. It also showed how good GB is - and that that NFC North Division is as a whole.
I want to be pissed about this game - but I'm not. This team is not there yet, they still make incredibly dumb mistakes and have a young coaching staff still finding their way. I'm looking forward to seeing them evolve and where this team goes, but right now, they have too many holes, starting at the QB and LB positions, but they also have a lot of nice pieces in place for a foundation.
go hawks...
