WizardHawk
Release the Kraken - Fuck the Canucks
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I've already said anything can happen. Only thing I've pointed out is why some of the stats favor Seattle. I think if this game is played 10 times all at the clink Seattle wins at least 8 of them with half being blowouts. Would that be different if it was in Dallas? Well no shit. It has zero relevancy to this game.I don't feel good about this game. For starters, the game is in Seattle and Seattle doesn't lose there. That's the main issue. Then there's the fact that McClain might not play and Bruce Carter probably won't play. Without them, our front 7 is horrible and we would have nobody like Carter that could spy Wilson. Then there's the fact that we are still without our 2nd round pick DE, Anthony Spencer is still not 100%, and Melton is not 100%. Though our defense has been improved this year, it has plenty of room to grow, but all of these injuries are making it hard for the unit to completely mesh. I don't like our chances of stopping Seattle.
Seattle will be playing with a super thin secondary that has been suspect at times and is without their stud TE who is normally a huge factor in run blocking. Every team has injuries. The great ones find ways to deal with them.
Just let me point out that Seattle has faced four opponents that can't run the football. The Chargers are 27th in rushing yards per game, the Redskins are 21st, the Broncos are 29th, and the Packers are 25th. So I really don't understand why Seattle fans keep bringing up their #1 run defense. They haven't faced any rushing attack that is in the top half of the league. The Cowboys will be far and away the best rushing attack they have faced. Now this doesn't mean that Seattle can't shut down Dallas' run game. I actually expect it to happen because I expect Seattle to take our running game away by scoring offensively on our defense. And that will indeed put tons of pressure on Romo in a tough environment. I agree with you there. I just don't agree that you can harp on Seattle's run defense yet. We really don't know if it is as good as their ranking because they have only really faced passing teams. Which also would explain why they are 22nd against the pass. We all know their secondary is their strength defensively and that ranking is a product of the passing attacks they've faced.
No, Seattle did shut down every run game so far and they are lower on passing because their secondary is super thin with a guy starting that didn't have a team at the start of the season. Shutting down GB's running game entirely and forcing every team they have played to be entirely one dimensional is just a fact.
No doubt Seattle has faced great competition to start this season with the exception of the Redskins. The only thing Seattle fans really need to worry about is the difficulty of repeating in the NFL and getting most team's best shot, which comes with the territory of being champions.
This is the NFL. You should expect team's best shots each week. To suggest otherwise is to say teams often don't give their best effort. It's fan speak and no one inside the game would give it any credibility. As to worrying about repeating? Has zero to do with this week's game. Every game matters and stands on it's own. The post season will work itself out. All anyone is concerned with this week is this game. Nothing else.
I don't know why any Cowboy fan would hang their hat on that unless this game were being played in Dallas and not the best homefield advantage in the NFL. I agree, all teams are different at home than on the road, but not to the extreme like Seattle and New Orleans. Their splits are vastly different home/away. As far as the officiating this past Monday, I don't believe those were bad calls. Seattle committed a penalty on every one of those TDs that were called back, so they should not have counted. They won the game. No sense in worrying about how much worse the score should have looked. Style points are only needed in college football, not the NFL.
A head bob on a silent snap count in shotgun is a valid call to you?Then why did Unger not do a single thing differently the rest of the game and wasn't called for it again? He did the exact same thing at least a dozen times. Harvin's false start was entirely wrong. At worst you might argue he was in illegal motion, but even then he followed the letter of the law he just wasn't smooth about it. And carpenter's penalty? Really man, every offensive player has been taught to keep your man down since the dawning of the game. It's just not a penalty. He didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
Refs blow things. It's normal. I only suggest that if you just take any one of those back the game isn't as close as it was so the effort was good enough to be a total blowout.
Dallas has a dangerous offense and an average at best defense. Seattle has already beaten one offense that is better than Dallas, one more that is at least around the same danger factor, and lost to one under very unique circumstances (120 degrees measured on the field) and that game was still close to the end.
My only worry most games is that we come out of it injury free. I have no other concerns about this game at all.
