McGruff":1z7dbscs said:
KiwiHawk":1z7dbscs said:
My only issue with Pope is the one interview he gave where he sounded dumb. That led me to believe he, lime Michael, might not have the smarts to pick up the system. We have some pretty sharp cookies out there on offense, and to stay on the same page as Wilson you have to study your ass off and have the brains to process it all. No surprise our most productive receiver is Baldwin.
Otherwise, he looks like he can do the job as a backup to Rawls - probably better than Michael can.
Is that hype? I don't think so. I never rated Michael all that well. His spin move at the line blinded him to how the blocking was developing while robbing him of momentum eliminating any leverage to push the pile. He had quickness but it didn't translate north/south.
The Patriots aren't much defensively and Michael did have some good carries against them, but so did Prosise who is not supposed to be our every-down runner. Against tougher defenses, Michael was regularly stuffed.
We need guys who can produce after contact, and Pope looked to be able to do that in the pre-season, albeit against inferior opposition. However, Pope is a work in progress and shouldn't be comparable to Michael yet. The fact that he is is more a condemnation of Michael than praise for Pope, which further underlines the need to move on.
Lynch sounds dumb when we talks too . . . But Lynch isn't dumb.
The old saying holds true, "opinions are like assholes, everybody has one". I don't know which interview you watched, but the one I watched was posted in the Seahwks "sounds from the locker room" as a one on one piece, with a woman interviewer, who is often seen interviewing Seahawk players.
At that time everyone within the Seahawks organization were convinced that he would be on the 2016 53 man roster based on his performance throughout the preseason, and seemingly having beaten out all the other RBs in the Seahawk tradition of competively earning your spot on the team.
In that interview, I found The Pope to be very open and personable. He talked about his religious convictions, saying that he drew his strength, courage, and determination from that source, and gave credit to God for all his successes.
He talked about how excited he was to be playing at Seattle, about feeling really connected with the other players, more so with Wilson, Lockett, Baldwin and a few others because of their shared convictions.
He carried and expressed himself as an educated man, in my assessment anyway, I have a masters in sociology so I don't feel like I'm unqualified to make a judgement like that. I felt he was very real and that he made himself emotionally vulnerable to the fans in that interview, and solidified myself as one of his fans.
I think its for reasons like this, that Mashawn Lynch closed shop with talking to the press. Marshawn is anything but stupid. Maybe because he comes from a different place than a lot of people do, and because he is comfortable with himself and doesn't feel the need to drink tea with his pinky finger extended to try and fit some profile people want him to portray. Reality is Marshawn has more education than 80 % of the folks in this forum. I didn't blame him a bit for telling the media to go to hell, everytimr he tried to cooperate with them, they used any and everything he said against him.
I hope folks aren't dumb enough to continue doing that sort of thing with any of our players. " Criticism is a tribute paid to success, made by mediocrity and stupidity, don't get mad, take a bow". Think about that for a minute before you decide to criticize someone. It might just be yourself who's intelligence comes into question.
