Game Thread: Week 7: Bird Fight - Seahawks @ Falcons 10:00 pst/1:00 est - Fox

[flyerhawk]

No Woolen. No Jenkins. No Tre Brown. No Right Tackle.

Murphy looks like he returning which is good.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Murphy returning is probably what gives us any chance in this game. The DL has been horrible against the run and with the secondary playing off everyone by 5-10 yards it doesn't matter if we filled the secondary with the likes of the talent of Lott, Sherman, Sanders, and Fulcher...

 

[Anointed One]

Love the title to the thread... Hopefully after the game, Seattle doesn't have the Bird Flu from vomiting all over the joint...

Secondary definitely looks like it's taking a bit of a hit... Hopefully with us healthy up front now - we can put some pressure on the QB so our DB's will have an easier job staying in coverage for a shorter amount of time...

One positive with us going to our 4th string RT, is that ATL only has 5 total sacks for the year so far... Hopefully we don't give their DL a season best day in terms of pressuring Geno... If our offense can take advantage of a poor ATL Pass rush, we'll have a good shot of pulling off the upset on the road..

One thing that stands out this game is how well ATL's backup QB, Penix knows Grubb and this offense... He probably knows it better than most Seahawk players on the roster... Grubbs will have to throw a few surprises in there... Specifically with hand signals., etc. because I'm sure Penix will be talking to the DC quite often during the game...

 

[Screamin12th]

Need to force Turn overs, Need to stop the run AND FOR ALL THAT IS HOLY can we blitz a little more? I get they want to get pressure with just 4 but lets put in some more Blitz packages. If what i heard is right the Hawks are below 28th in blitz count.

 

[Anointed One]

I was surprised to see the Seahawks were tied for 8th in the league in sacks. That’s without blitzing too often .

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Well SHOCKER, now Walker is questionable because of an 'illness'... lol.

As for the pressure/sacks, I really think it's an issue with the coverage. Seattle seems like they've entirely reverted to the Carroll soft zone play way off defenders crap they did under Carroll the last few years. Kind of all areas of our coverage is falling apart. Dodson seems to have forgotten how to play football... and I know he was a 1/2 a season wonder with the Bills, but the guy doesn't seem to cover or hit the gaps well.. and then every DB seems to be in zone playing off guys like 5-10 yards. PRESS EM UP. There was a catch by Kittle where there was like 3 Seahawks WAY deep playing off him.

I'd also like to see a stat line on passes over the middle of the field vs. outside against us... as usual we can't seem to do fuck all against covering the middle of the field or tight ends.

As for the run defense... Jesus... I think Murphy is back and Atlanta's OL is decent along with Robinson... so if Murphy is playing and we shut them down then maybe Murphy is just that big of a need on the DL right now lol. I still think we need more DTs as well. Hankins and Reed are old, and Williams is getting older too... and Jones has been a flat out bust.

That all said, please fire this strength and conditioning team. The injuries this team has over the last few seasons has been flat out criminal. And for the love of God keep Bradford out of there... we'll probably have to pass 50 times again because the Falcons will score 90 points, and Bradford can't pass block to save his life.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

10 am road game with an ass load of injuries.

Can't fuckin' wait!

 

[Screamin12th]

Hey guys Keep your chins up. I can't explain it but win or lose something good is going to happen today. I just got a feeling. I don't know what it is but something good is going to happen. Maybe we force 3+ turnover who knows but i can't shake this feeling something "GOOD" is going to happen today.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

I dunno what is it with these playcalls, but every time Geno goes up there for his little audible or whatever, the guy off the right side is just unblocked making a beeline for him.

Least we're using up some good clock on this drive.

 

[Judge Fudge]

Nice Drive so far....................

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

lol and of course a hold that wasn't even needed calls the TD back...

 

[HaroldSeattle]

Dang

 

[Destroydacre]

Another drive killed by penalty. Shit is so old.

 

[blstoker]

It was a good first drive, unfortunate a holding penalty leaves us with 3, but at least there were points.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

WTF was that route design? Literally all 3 WRs (JSN/Tyler/Metcalf) ran the exact same route bunched up together? WTH? Can you make it any easier on the D?

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Another drive killed by penalty. Shit is so old.

Yep, and it was a fairly cheap hold... it wasn't blatant. And Barner (who got called on it) and the guy he was holding weren't even impacting the play. The 'hold' happened after Walker was long gone. REALLY ticky tack penalty... I hate to see officials call that... partly because they seem to NEVER call it for us. Guarantee if the roles were reversed and that was Pitts and Bijan ran it in, it'd stand.

 

[Judge Fudge]

 

[Judge Fudge]

Thats the Defense i remember

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Thats the Defense i remember

You mean guys just running WIDE open down the field with nobody accounting for them while 4-5 guys are playing 20-30 yards down the field like there's 30 seconds left and we're up by 7?

 

[Judge Fudge]

You mean guys just running WIDE open down the field with nobody accounting for them while 4-5 guys are playing 20-30 yards down the field like there's 30 seconds left and we're up by 7?

Yep

And the "wood Body" Tackling