Jimmy Graham

[Attyla the Hawk]

They bracketed him with a LB and Safety almost every play. The end result being we were able to attack vertically with seam routes all night. Baldwin being the biggest beneficiary of the Pat's strategy.

Even more so, it severely limited the Patriot's ability to dial up blitzes. One of Doug's TDs was against cover zero on a blitz -- something that Graham ensured.

Graham was absolutely instrumental in our performance last night.

 

[JesterHawk]

Unreal. We just beat New England in their house, and people find a reason to bitch. I'm as high as a kite right now purely on Seahawks football.

You guys need to loosen up.

 

[HawkFan72]

We wanted to get Kearse into the game.

I swear if every (or even HALF) of the passes thrown Kearse's way went to Jimmy the Hawks would have won by 14+ pts. For every amazing catch Kease makes I swear he has like 4 drops/tipped interceptions/missed catch because he was too busy looking to the ref for a flag vs trying to get the ball.

Yup. Last night was literally a 4:1 ratio at one point of drops to catches and his catch was a great 20 yard play. So frustrating.

 

[Seahawk Sailor]

The announcers actually talked about this very thing during the game. Said he was double covered almost every play because he was our big play maker. And he was. So we went to shorter drop passes to Prosise, with great success, lobs to Lockett with great success, and lobs to Baldwin with even greater success.

This is the very meaning of team. They take away one of your weapons, you utilize the remaining weapons to beat them in their own house.

 

[scutterhawk]

Why is everyone so pissy a about Graham not getting his TD. We had shots to take in the end zone but missed them (execution). Maybe those shots were there because Graham took extra heat. Do people really think we just forgot about Jimmy or did not want to throw to him, or our OC is to dumb to figure that out (please dont respong the last one).

The Pats were focusing on Graham & Baldwin, it was CJ Prosise that came out of nowhere for the Seahawks...He did a stellar job of taking it to the Patriots, so while Collins & Michael weren't getting it done, the Seahawks went back to what was working.

 

[ivotuk]

We were playing against arguably the greatest head coach in the history of the game.

Bill Belicheck ALWAYS schemes to take away your biggest offensive threat, and that usually comes by double teaming, or having the 2nd player just off the coverage to try and make it look like Graham is open. So why force it in there?

If Belicheck wants to use resources on covering Jimmy, use your other players. A coach must keep all of his offense involved in the game because of injuries. It seems pretty common sense to me.

Just look at the evidence. Russell Wilson 348 Yards ZERO interceptions. Against the Patriots.