Great defense - but we still need to shut down a great QB

Now only if our offense can catch up

Our defense is allowing a lot of runs more then 3 yards.

I noticed that too but I attributed that today to the dallas OL, they were manhandling our guys on some of those runs

I had the same thought but really it has been a trend all year.

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Seahawk Sailor":2gq8lq1u said:

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YPG, really, Hawkblogger? Whatever it takes to support your homerism, I guess.

And those stats are largely a byproduct of our VERY hot-and-cold lineup. Laughable Lions, Unbearable Bears, Freefalling 49ers, and Romo-less Cowboys.

We're looking suspiciously like the 2007 paper tiger Seahawks, except that we're hanging closer in all of our games.

Hey, just reporting what I thought was pertinent to the discussion. Granted, our defense didn't make Matt Cassell look as bad as Aaron Rogers looked tonight, but I think they did a fair job anyway.

MontanaHawk05":1q2uy4c2 said:

Seahawk Sailor":1q2uy4c2 said:

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YPG, really, Hawkblogger? Whatever it takes to support your homerism, I guess.

And those stats are largely a byproduct of our VERY hot-and-cold lineup. Laughable Lions, Unbearable Bears, Freefalling 49ers, and Romo-less Cowboys.

We're looking suspiciously like the 2007 paper tiger Seahawks, except that we're hanging closer in all of our games.

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Looking like 2007, but hanging closer. The statement and qualifier totally contradict one another. They are clearly better than 2007 by your own statement.

titan3131":gon0qv66 said:

Our defense is allowing a lot of runs more then 3 yards.

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McFadden averaged 3.2 ypc.

As a team they were at 4.3, largely because of Cassel's two scrambles.

Mc Murray went off last week. And at home vs. the Hawks defense managed only 64 yards on 20 carries for 3.2 average.

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For more success in the 2nd half of the season, our O needs to take some of the burden off the D. The only games we've won this year so far are the four games our D allowed ZERO TDs. In the modern NFL, it seems crazy that our D has not allowed a TD in half of our games. It's a pretty tall order to basically tell the D "if you give up a single TD, we will have a tough time winning". Even with a few of the 4th quarter breakdowns, those games should have been salted away with even average offensive performances. I'm not sure it's realistic to require the D to shut down those great QBs. Limit huge plays and get off the field on 3rd down, and expect the O to help more. Otherwise, I fear we continue to beat the bad teams, and lose to the good ones.

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Outside of four horrendous 4th quarters, Seattle's D has been championship caliber. The only thing missing is the turnovers, and turnovers are heavily luck influenced.

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That's impressive no matter who you are playing against.

kearly":2ln2q7tb said:

Outside of four horrendous 4th quarters, Seattle's D has been championship caliber. The only thing missing is the turnovers, and turnovers are heavily luck influenced.

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I agree. Also, I can't back this up with any numbers or stats, but it seems like QBs are being extremely cautious when they throw against this Defense to avoid INTs. The times we have seen QBs make some careless passes, they are picks or near-picks (Cam Newton did this a couple times, Cassell had a couple close ones). But otherwise QBs seem like they aren't throwing the ball at the Defense unless a WR is really open (kind of like what Russell has been accused of doing too much).

kearly":2us5pzui said:

Outside of four horrendous 4th quarters, Seattle's D has been championship caliber. The only thing missing is the turnovers, and turnovers are heavily Luck influenced.

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Agree'd, its just too bad that Andrew is not on our schedule this year. Missing out on a bunch of potential interceptions.

MontanaHawk05":27uaxddg said:

Seahawk Sailor":27uaxddg said:

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YPG, really, Hawkblogger? Whatever it takes to support your homerism, I guess.

And those stats are largely a byproduct of our VERY hot-and-cold lineup. Laughable Lions, Unbearable Bears, Freefalling 49ers, and Romo-less Cowboys.

We're looking suspiciously like the 2007 paper tiger Seahawks, except that we're hanging closer in all of our games.

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We've also played Rodgers and Dalton on the road.

Don't you think some of the other teams that the defense is compared to statistically have played some crap competition too?

Seems to me when it all comes out in the wash, those numbers are pretty legitimate, or as legit as they can be in week 8.

titan3131":2md1rhwb said:

Our defense is allowing a lot of runs more then 3 yards.

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yup, dallas's O-Line is no joke.

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marko358":3bz2p3k0 said:

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That's impressive no matter who you are playing against.

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and now we have the next 10 days off with the next 3 games at home. bevell needs to go to offense coord school to learn to open up that friggin offense.

Bevell shuts down a great QB every week.