Mr Steeler
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Chances of repeating are pretty slim these days but the Seahawks certainly have the best shot at it of any team in the past decade
Chances of repeating are pretty slim these days but the Seahawks certainly have the best shot at it of any team in the past decade
Seattle won the SB with last years line. This years line should be a slight upgrade at the least.
They need to just start with being the first team in a decade to even make the playoffs the year after winning it all.
I watched the Bears game again this morning.
Seattle looks like it's in midseason form and on another level than any other NFL team right now. Baring a injury apocalypse, we look primed for another SB run.
Yes it's preseason, but the Chargers and Bears had all their starters out there for the first halfs and the Seahawks pulled their pants down on both sides of the ball. The Bears O was ranked in the top 10 last year. Seahawks absolutely manhandled them.
It's the NFL and lots of FB to play to get to the playoffs, but still, Seahawks are looking like favs from the NFC.
They lost some of their rotational depth particularly on the line with Red Bryant and Clemons gone. Red was a beast in run stoppage and many wonder who can pick up that role. The real question mark is the rule changes for contact past 5y and how that might hinder what the LOB did so well last year.
It's a fallacy that the SB winner has the toughest schedule. It is true the Seahawks have a very challenging schedule, but it has nearly nothing to do with them being champs.
The formula only adjusts TWO GAMES based on how you finished in your own division which has zero to do with being SB champs. It's not a difficult formula to understand. Every team plays every other team in their division twice (6 games) and plays every team in one other division in their own conference once and this rotates every year (4 games) every other team in your same division also plays that division. And every year you play one of the 4 divisions in the other conference (4 games) and again every team in your same division also plays those. That's 14 games all decided purely on rotation and every damned team in your division also plays them. The last two are playing the team with the same position in their division the prior season from the two divisions you aren't playing that year.
So Seattle gets the Packers and Panthers while the 9'ers get Chicago and the Saints. Is it that much of an easier road?
I'd argue your schedule might be harder since you play every NFCW team this year and the NFCW rolling over the NFCE isn't nearly as tough.
I can't speak for the Chargers because I didn't watch the game. Your offense manhandled the Bears defense, that is obvious. But the Bears should have scored a few TDs on your D. Gotta eliminate the drops especially when they do for 1st down and TDs.
Agree completely. You also have to factor in the fact that teams change from year to year. What may appear to be a tough opponent at this time won't necessarily be one within a few months (& vice versa). No doubt some surprise teams (& disappointments) will surface during the season.
The bigger factor for a SB champ is that everyone is gunning for you every week - perhaps that won't be a big deal for Seattle - we will see.
Weird how the first teams shutout was all chicagos fault! Lol
But seriously, cutty didnt look like he wanted to be there. Part of this defense is they are so physical other players get psyched out of playing their game and try to do things differently. Also seattles speed on d, a play that you normally have 5 yards on you gain 2 cause of the speed. There isnt a faster d in the league.
But tell yourself what you gotta to cope, i get it.
I watched the Bears game again this morning.
Seattle looks like it's in midseason form and on another level than any other NFL team right now. Baring a injury apocalypse, we look primed for another SB run.
Yes it's preseason, but the Chargers and Bears had all their starters out there for the first halfs and the Seahawks pulled their pants down on both sides of the ball. The Bears O was ranked in the top 10 last year. Seahawks absolutely manhandled them.
It's the NFL and lots of FB to play to get to the playoffs, but still, Seahawks are looking like favs from the NFC.
LOL Pretty sure Denver held its own against them only a couple of weeks ago. Obviously doesn't mean much, but that ^ is some homer BS.
You do realize that game was at home and Seattle only lost it because a guy not likely to make the team dropped the go ahead TD pass from another guy not likely to see a down this year right?
Maybe I missed something, but I don't recall your first string tearing up Seattle's defense in that game AT HOME. And that was with NO starting LB's and Kam not playing that game.
You go ahead and hang onto that thought you did good things in a first preseason game against hardly any starters at home in a game you barely won. I'm totally fine with that.
Yup. Drops aren't always on the offense. Sometimes they happen because the DBs reroute receivers, and by the time they get the ball out, they're out of position, or their timing is off (QB or receiver). If Seattle let them run their routes clean and on time, they dont drop those passes.
Jeffery dropped a TD on the first drive. Sure the guy made a nice play to knock it away when Jeffrey tried to regrip it, but if he catches it cleanly, it is a TD. He had the guy beat and made several more difficult plays with the defenders hand on the ball last year. The Marshall drop on 3rd down the next drive was a tight window so I guess you could say the D had "something" to do with it. The 4th drive we had 2 TDs called back.
Quit acting like good offense can't beat good defense and that every team always plays their A game vs Seattle's defense. Your team is beatable. The other team just needs to execute more than they normally do.
LOL Pretty sure Denver held its own against them only a couple of weeks ago. Obviously doesn't mean much, but that ^ is some homer BS.
LOL at Broncos fans who were claiming that game was "The Mile-High Redemption" and the final score somehow proved the superbowl was a fluke. If I remember correctly, something like 15+ of our projected starters didn't even play in that game, while the Broncos marched out a bunch of theirs. Our starting Oline in the game was a rookie and 4 backups.
And so what did the Broncos starters accomplish playing @home against our 2nd and 3rd stringers in the 1st half? 7 points.
Sorry Broncos. Even if you went out and bought yourselves some improvements on Defense via FA, it still doesn't remotely compare to ours. Just like last year, you'll get blinded by all the TDs Payton is throwing against all those AFC teams who have shitty Ds and thinking your #1. But at least a painful reminder of reality comes Sept 21. As your counting the TDs the rest of the season against cupcake after cupcake, you'll still have to gaze back at the Sept 21 result.
These two teams meet again in the SB this season, the result will be similar. The Seahawks D has your number. They eat the statue of Omaha for breakfast. Even with the new Manning gets a ring at any cost pass interference rules the NFL is pushing this season.