boogiewithstu2007
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Ha! Ok, went right over my headThat was sarcasm
Ha! Ok, went right over my headThat was sarcasm
“The defense didn’t change too much, but I will point to one omission that we had this year, and that was not having (linebacker) K.J. Wright,” he said.
The Seahawks didn’t re-sign Wright last offseason despite him having spent 10 years with the franchise. He instead joined the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Seahawks relied mostly on Bobby Wagner and Jordyn Brooks at linebacker while using more defensive backs instead of a third linebacker.
Losing Wright, Tatupu said, made the Seahawks especially vulnerable against a play that never used to be an issue.
“You saw how the screen game attacked us. Screens never attacked us (when Wright was in Seattle),” he said. “They never got after us before and he was always the one either alerting it if it was (on the opposite side) of him or making the play in the backfield with a big hit. So that was alarming.”
Like hosts Bob Stelton and Dave Wyman, Tatupu also said he is over seeing the Seahawks drop their best pass rushers into coverage.
“I don’t ever want to see (defensive ends Carlos) Dunlap or Darrell Taylor in coverage again,” he said. “It’s not because they can’t do it, it’s because they’re so good at rushing the passer … It’s tough when you see them in the flats and it’s like, man, we should be sending him forward.”