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Monday, August 30, 2010

Sports Inexpert Opinion: The Seahawks

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:06 PM

Over here, the coach says that losing an exhibition game to the Vikings this weekend still contained "a lot of real positive things." What a nice coach! He doesn't want to make the Seahawks feel bad—that's sweet. Especially considering that they scored, then (probably because they were all excited) they immediately let the other team score, which I understand is not good American-football-playing but is completely understandable.

But, more to the point, over here, the Seattle Times' Danny O'Neil says (along with a lot of stuff I do not at all understand) of the Seahawks' preseason, "This running game is going nowhere fast... Doesn't matter who's running the ball for Seattle, it's going to be slow going."

And is it me, or are the Seahawks a little late to respond over here? There is a motherfucking snake in the cooler, and yet they (almost to a man) look like they're in slow motion.

The Seahawks: Prepare for the slowness.

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Hey, remember when you guys had writers who were knowledgeable about things like football?

Posted by Sadhawk on August 30, 2010 at 1:08 PM

Wow. This is why Slog should stay the fuck away from anything sports (other then commie-soccer) related.

If you're going to critique the Hawks - and god knows, they have some problems - at least do a good job of it and pretend you know what you're talking about.

Posted by John1781 on August 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM

This is like hearing my mom talk about football. Earl Thomas is not slow. Win Forever!

Posted by Huggie on August 30, 2010 at 1:12 PM

You guys should cover the Sounders.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on August 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM

I heard a sports report a week or so ago that most teams running games are more and more becoming a thing of the past. The talking heads were doing compares of Walter Payton and some other RB. . .Emmitt Smith I think. . . against what's passing as a running back in today's game compared to back in their day.
Altho' I agree, Thomas did great in pre-season - now just keep it up for regular season. Go Hawks!

Posted by irl on August 30, 2010 at 1:36 PM

Pre-season doesn't mean shit (or at best, it barely means shit) but I still love to see my home state Vikings actually do something good!

Now if only they could find a way to stop choking in the playoffs...

Posted by Urgutha Forka on August 30, 2010 at 1:48 PM

@4 They have covered the Sounders a number of times in the past. Frizzelle was really into them during the inaugural season, but that seems to have dropped off a bit this year. Or at least they aren't writing about it.

BJC: I think O'Neil is referring to the offensive line's development in a zone blocking system with the "slow going" remark. Leon Washington, for example, is one of the fastest guys on the team, but if the blocking isn't there, where's he gonna run to? I realize that probably makes no sense to you, but there it is.

Posted by Hernandez

on August 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM

@ 7 - I don't even think Frizzelle made it through all of last season.

Posted by UnoriginalAndrew on August 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM

The point is...the Vikings are predicted to be really good and the Seahawk defense did really well in the first part of the game. Really well! Later on when they brought in other players the team blew their lead and lost but at that point no one was really keeping score anymore since the players playing are not going to be on the team when the season starts. Now, the offense seems a little rusty but the pieces do seem to be coming together. Too bad backup QB Charlie Whitehurst didn't look as good as he did in his first series with the team.

Posted by Bill W.