FlyingGreg":35pu5bqr said:
pacific101":35pu5bqr said:
Unless I'm having a senior moment, didn't we just whoop the New England Patriots asses the other day ala no Michael Bennett? Mike is the man, but the Seahawks can play and win without him, he makes winning easier, but we are still dripping with talent on our defense without him. Take Earl, Shead, and Sherman out, and the same thing happens. These guys are big assets, but they only make the task of winning easier.
The Buckaroos have one thing going for them, their QB and their deep threat receiver. I believe we have position backups that are talented enough to keep their pass threat honest, and maybe even exploit it if Winston buys into all this BS about us being defenseless because we have some folks out injured.
The Buckaroos are the ones with no real defense to speak of, our offense is looking pretty damn good right now, Russell and receiving core are gonna have a party on Sunday, and Rawls probably breaks a hundred too.
Our defense is plenty tough enough to put the squeeze on Winston and force him to make lots of mistakes. I predict a hay day of interceptions, sacks, and fumbles.
Seahawks win this one easy.
Go Seahawks !
We won on a 4th down stop on the goal line. Not exactly a "whooping". And that was with Earl and Deshawn.
Having Jeremy "Never makes a play" Lane in place of Shead is worrisome. Not having Thomas roving the middle is really worrisome.
TB will score 24 plus. We need our offense to hang 30.
I hear what your saying, but that was back the Buck's had a defense, that is not the case at present. Their offense is pretty skinny right now compared to then too. I'm not saying we are going to play any better without Earl, everyone knows what a play maker he is. I also haven't forgotten what our pass defense opposite of Sherman looked like before Shead filled that position.
What I am saying is that the backups we have for them are doing better than average in their absence, and given the weakened state of the current Buc's offense, I'm pretty confident that the legion of boom, which still packs plenty of boom on a QB, i.e. Tom Brady, absent Bennett, had Tommy Boy throwing interception, fumbling, and sacked, when all the teams before us couldn't get it done, and Gronk, caught how many passes? 3 was it?
No real offense and certainly not much in the way of a defense to slow our air attack down, or slow Rawls down, who is on a mission right now. Maybe I'm being a bit soft in the head thinking this going to be a bit of a walk in the park for the Hawks, so long as they don't go convincing themselves of it to, and play their normal aggressive style.
Also, what was the cheap shot at Lane all about. It appears he is having a pretty good run right, or at least his stats suggest that he is. Looking and comparing his 2016 stats with all his previous years with the Seahawks, and being only half way through the season, he already has double tackles than his previous, same with assists, a couple of passes deflected, and a fair number of tackles. So while he's not having as good of season as some, he isn't doing all that bad.
Might try comparing his stats with the Buckaroo's playing his position and see how Lane stacks up there, before we start saying he isn't a credible play maker.
