2012 Week 1: 7 catches, 76 yds, 0 TDs (Alex Smith)
2013 Divisional Round: 9 catches, 119 yds, 2 TDs (Colin Kaepernick)

The story line with Crabtree will definitely be a big one... But Vernon was really a non-factor until the NFCCG with Kaep. Plus the addition of Anquan will alleviate some of the loss. But there's no way around losing your best receiving option. I do find it interesting that Vegas didn't move our line for SB favorites (in fact, Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, LVH, actually dropped the odds from 6-1 down to 5-1... http://www.ninersnation.com/2013/6/25/4 ... s-division) and we stayed at 11.5 wins after the Crabtree injury.

Interestingly, with Gronk injuries and Hernandez's date with the big house, the Pats didn't move either.

Division odds:

SF: 5/6
SEA: 11/10
STL: 10/1
ARI: 30/1

Now, 5/6 and 11/10 are really close and Vegas is in the business of making $$ not necessarily picking the winners. They want even $$ on both sides. Still, it is interesting that losing the #1 WR didn't change the numbers, and in fact, actually improved the line.

It's all about getting the money to both sides not about the actual odds of winning so pretty irrelevant.

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71-16....next man up.

Stop wasting our time with stupid questions. What good does that do?

That is an irrelevant, hypothetical question because there is no way in hell the Seahawks are going to lose that game or the next one.

A better question would be how much are the Seahawks going to win by in the first game.
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So, do you think Chuck Norris can't kick the same guy's ass at 8:00am as he can at 1:00 in the afternoon? If he lost the fight in the morning, and won at 1:00pm, would he blame it on the time of day or on timezone differences? Nope. He is a finely-tuned fighting machine no matter where he is at or what time it is.

The team is from Seattle, and because the sun runs east to west, the clock is different. The only difference is what time you go to sleep the night before, and if the crowd screams when you are on offense, or when you are on defense.

Pro athlete? Train correctly. Sleep correctly. Eat correctly. Get good advice (when you can) and make sure you wear the correct size shoes. Follow the rules. When the whistle blows you will be ready to play or you will be replaced. Doesn't matter where the little hand and the big hand are on a clock, it is where that big yellow orb is in the sky is that is important.

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"God bless America, and God bless the Seattle Seahawks" - Cortez Kennedy

I've been saying for months that the Panthers game scares the shit out of me.

If we are going to seriously contend for a Super Bowl, home field advantage will be key. Look at our schedule, we just can't afford to drop games to sub-par or mediocre teams. Last year was the "growing year" in my eyes, the year when we struggled against inferior teams like Detroit and Miami. And you know what, those games are what ultimately cost us a trip to the NFC championship and possibly the Super Bowl. This year MUST be the year where we capitalize on our potential and allow no surprises or slips. It's going to be dead heat between us and the 49ers down the stretch. So yeah, a loss to the Panthers would be shocking.

Good post. But I also can't help but to see the flip side... we finished last regular season one win away from the division title and a home playoff game. A week one loss to a team we should fairly easily handle would put us behind the 8-ball.

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I feel like some people are underrating the Panthers here, though if they are still in the position of running guys like Captain Munnerlyn out there at corner, Seattle should have a better team that wins on a neutral field seven times out of ten or so.

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"Kicking ass in the morning is better than cappuccino!"

I wouldn't be surprised even a little bit if we lost that first week. And i'll be even less concerned then surprised. We always seem to start off the year kind of slow. No big deal.

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ok.... i'm convinced.... we're going 0-16....

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I don't know why I bother... no one cares what I think.

I'd be in full meltdown mode........but really when am I not lol.

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Man, all you guys gotta do is watch Blitzer in the Game Day Chat, he leaves when he's nervous, i just sit and laugh at it.

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Yeah, I love it when people try the "and I don't want here about yadda, yadda" in an effort to negate objective, factual info. It's a lame effort to get in the last word and a laughable way to try to make a case.

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"A couple years from now Wilson will be forgotten about and you will forget I said he would fail" (Cboom, 2012)

Hey, I won't argue against any positive statements about Dangeruss :grin: But I'm at odds with saying we are a better team on anything but paper until we see how all of the new pieces -lots if changes in our D rotation and people who need to recover from unjury- play together.

What gives me a warm fuzzy is that we have equalizers on both sides of the ball in Dangeruss and the LOB, so hopefully that will be enough to win until the team starts hitting on all cylinders. You can't expect them to be a well-oiled machine at game one.

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"A couple years from now Wilson will be forgotten about and you will forget I said he would fail" (Cboom, 2012)

We aint losin to no damn Panthers regardless of location and time! Get a grip! :cool:

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"A couple years from now Wilson will be forgotten about and you will forget I said he would fail" (Cboom, 2012)

Seahawks started their 2005 Superbowl run with a 0-2 road record.

It would suck losing to the Panthers but I would still remain fairly optimistic, 15 more games to play after that.

The NFL certainly didn't do the Seahawks any favors when making their schedule but its part of the business, we have a relatively young team, facing challenges and adversity should only make them better in the long run.

Damon Bruce would always say, anything that happens week 1 will be overreacted to. Good or bad.

In this instance, I'm really hoping good. However, the biggest factor that we cannot account yet is the eye test. If the team lost, how did they look losing? Did the Panthers pull off a great victory, or did the Seahawks muff their season debut?

In my book, the likelihood of this team losing may be significant, but likelihood of them playing undisciplined, bad football is very small.
Thus, I fear nothing. I have faith in the work ethic and ability of our guys. Win or lose, they will show up, they'll leave it all out on the field. Go 'Hawks.

Bruce Lee killed Chuck Norris. It was 10AM Pacific time.

Pro athlete is exactly the point. The difference between these athletes seems great, but in actuality, it is very small. Thus, any given sunday. Factor in ANY advantage that is spread out over the entire team and it gets magnified.

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Richard Sherman doesn't just wanna get in your head, he wants to build a vacation home there.

R. Sherman: "I don't want to be an island. I want to be a tourist attraction. You come, I take your money & you go."

Wilson is not going to be held by the hand game one, Panthers are going to be fired up We will see how they adapt to Shulas offense, I think our defense is going to have an advantage out of the gate. Newton will be thinking instead of playing. Something he doesn't seem to be good at. If we can jump on them I don't think the Panthers will be able to play from behind well, in fact our DB's will get a few pics with him forcing things trying to make stuff happen.

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