#1 DEF vs. #2 DAL OFF

[sutz]

Rule #1: We are not allowed to feel good about a pre-season game.

Rule #2: We are required to feel bad about a pre-season game.

That about cover it?

 

[scutterhawk]

We heard this all last year.
'It's the preseason'

The issues in the preseason have a funny way of being issues in the regular season. Almost every year.
It will be funny to watch how the same people are dumbfounded why we are so terrible at the thing we were terrible at in the preseason.
Happens year after year after year.
It's probably going to happen again. Because that's how things work.

Need some cheese to go with that whine?

 

[Maelstrom787]

We heard this all last year.
'It's the preseason'

The issues in the preseason have a funny way of being issues in the regular season. Almost every year.
It will be funny to watch how the same people are dumbfounded why we are so terrible at the thing we were terrible at in the preseason.
Happens year after year after year.
It's probably going to happen again. Because that's how things work.

Good thing the team looks entirely different this preseason than they did last, huh?

 

[Lagartixa]

Our run defense seems substandard in both games so far. That's not a great sign.

Substandard?

There are two comparisons I can make here. First, the Seahawks' opponents' rushing offense in these games vs. team rushing offenses in 2022, and then the Seahawks' rushing defense vs. team rushing defenses in 2022.

The 3.2 yards per rush that the Vikings got in the first game was lower than the lowest yards per rush that any team's offense had in the 2022 regular season, which was the Buccaneers at 3.4. 3.6 yards per rush, which is what the Cowboys got against the Seahawks, would be the second-worst rushing average in the league in 2022, beating only the Bucs' rushing attack.

Now looking at rushing defenses, allowing 3.2 yards per rush over the whole season in 2022 would have been the best rushing defense in the league. Allowing 3.4 yards per rush would have been second-best in the league.

I'm not saying the Seahawks will have one of the top rushing defenses in the league in 2022. There were players on the field for both teams last night that won't be on the final 53-man rosters. All I'm saying is that to see "substandard" run defense in the first two exhibition games, you've really got to want to see substandard run defense. On-brand, I guess

 

[Maelstrom787]

We aren't just in vanilla D. Im seeing pressure from different angles, even run blitzes.

'Its the preseason' isn't relevant BTW. Its a poor excuse that often handwaves problems that later on become issues when 'Lol its the regular season' hits instead.

Our run defense seems substandard in both games so far. That's not a great sign.

Honest question - how and by what measure does the run defense seem substandard?

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Please give me time to celebrate a win, then we can analyse the shyt out of it.

No. You must worry now. And about everything. This is about overreacting to things we can’t control - get on board.