Hawaii-hawk
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I don’t know the stats on this but I have observed and confirmed with other's observations on this subject that the Seahawks have an extremely bad habit of waiting till the last second or two to get the play off and I’d like to touch on this matter a little bit more just how bad that is.
Imo this tendency is both intentional in that PCs offensive philosophy isn’t so much to move the ball as much as it is to protect the ball and burn as much time as possible—as well as its reflective of a head coach that ingratiates himself in the offensive play calls of his coordinator during drives.
Regardless, when you consistently hike the ball at 1-2 seconds you:
1) Give opposing defenses time to read your formation, communicate with each other, and line up accordingly.
2) Give opposing defenses time to rest on-field
3) Give opposing defenses time to make substitutions without fear you’ll catch them with too many men on field for a penalty ala A-rods favorite trick
4) Give opposing defenses an extra step off the tee in their rush, as they are able to perfectly anticipate when the play is starting, making it even more difficult on the offensive line.
This alone would be enough to sink an offense. But throw in all the other things we’ve been talking about that’s wrong with the offense:
1) vanilla, repetitive, and predictable playcalls
2) terrible situational awareness on calls. example: deep ball on 3rd and 3 or 5 yard pass on 3rd and 8
3) not adjusting to opponent
4) no confidence. PC broke it after seeing a few bad turnovers by RW and this is no more reflective than in RW himself and his “regression”.
It’s no wonder in my mind that our offense went in the toilet.
Now consider what happens when our offense plays to win, no more prevalent than when we do hurry-up: all those reasons pertaining to hiking at 1-2 seconds go away and our offense typically looks: amazing.
Does anyone else groan when you see us with a close lead late in the 4th and our offense is trying to just burn clock so it waits till 1-2 seconds to run something predictable when all it needs is one more 1st down to seal the game?
We groan because it almost never works. Well instead of waiting till the 4th with a comfortable lead to start burning clock and playing not to lose, PC literally plays that way from the start of the game.
Arghhhhhhhh
Imo this tendency is both intentional in that PCs offensive philosophy isn’t so much to move the ball as much as it is to protect the ball and burn as much time as possible—as well as its reflective of a head coach that ingratiates himself in the offensive play calls of his coordinator during drives.
Regardless, when you consistently hike the ball at 1-2 seconds you:
1) Give opposing defenses time to read your formation, communicate with each other, and line up accordingly.
2) Give opposing defenses time to rest on-field
3) Give opposing defenses time to make substitutions without fear you’ll catch them with too many men on field for a penalty ala A-rods favorite trick
4) Give opposing defenses an extra step off the tee in their rush, as they are able to perfectly anticipate when the play is starting, making it even more difficult on the offensive line.
This alone would be enough to sink an offense. But throw in all the other things we’ve been talking about that’s wrong with the offense:
1) vanilla, repetitive, and predictable playcalls
2) terrible situational awareness on calls. example: deep ball on 3rd and 3 or 5 yard pass on 3rd and 8
3) not adjusting to opponent
4) no confidence. PC broke it after seeing a few bad turnovers by RW and this is no more reflective than in RW himself and his “regression”.
It’s no wonder in my mind that our offense went in the toilet.
Now consider what happens when our offense plays to win, no more prevalent than when we do hurry-up: all those reasons pertaining to hiking at 1-2 seconds go away and our offense typically looks: amazing.
Does anyone else groan when you see us with a close lead late in the 4th and our offense is trying to just burn clock so it waits till 1-2 seconds to run something predictable when all it needs is one more 1st down to seal the game?
We groan because it almost never works. Well instead of waiting till the 4th with a comfortable lead to start burning clock and playing not to lose, PC literally plays that way from the start of the game.
Arghhhhhhhh