Who's bringing the excitement?

Who's bringing the excitement this year?
JS, MM, Darnold, Kupp, JIV, DLaw, Unheard of IOL? Championship football is more about mindset, than skillset, just look at all the talent we've had over the last 10 years. Some/alot of us fans still need to pull our head out of a$$ after SB49.
If we can reclaim home field advantage, we can easily win 13-14 this year.

I think this is a great point. Sometimes you bring in players that might not start, or might play mostly special teams. Not just because they can help out here or there, but because they're great in the locker room.

A healthy locker room is massive for a winning team. Just look at the locker room in our super bowl run. Then look how it all fell apart and we couldn't get that spark back.

Hoping we have a great locker room this year, whoever brings the energy.

JSN and Spoon/EJ/Big Cat are the only players I can really think of that "pop" for me.

I’m bringing the excitement this year

Jerhawk said:

I’m bringing the excitement this year

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Tiddays? Show us those titties Jer!

Vanlandingham said:

Who's bringing the excitement this year?
JS, MM, Darnold, Kupp, JIV, DLaw, Unheard of IOL? Championship football is more about mindset, than skillset, just look at all the talent we've had over the last 10 years. Some/alot of us fans still need to pull our head out of a$$ after SB49.
If we can reclaim home field advantage, we can easily win 13-14 this year.

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My eyes on our Head Coach and General Manager, oooops, sorry, our General Manager and our Head Coach.

Funny cause one of these 2 names was maligned here this week, but JSN (obviously) and Walker on offence. Walker has shown he can be a home run hitter if he gets some blocking.
Spoon on D. Would be nice if Murphy can develop into a disruptor on D where you are expecting him in the backfield more often than not

Vanlandingham said:

Who's bringing the excitement this year?
JS, MM, Darnold, Kupp, JIV, DLaw, Unheard of IOL? Championship football is more about mindset, than skillset, just look at all the talent we've had over the last 10 years. Some/alot of us fans still need to pull our head out of a$$ after SB49.
If we can reclaim home field advantage, we can easily win 13-14 this year.

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Another way we can reclaim home field advantage is showing up to home field to try to give us an advantage. Go to the damn games and fill the seats with Hawk fans! What used to be a spackle of visiting colors in the stands has now become waves.

rjdriver said:

Another way we can reclaim home field advantage is showing up to home field to try to give us an advantage. Go to the damn games and fill the seats with Hawk fans! What used to be a spackle of visiting colors in the stands has now become waves.

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Visiting fans buying up our home tickets is a consequence of two things... the quality of the product Seahawks ownership is putting on the field... and ticket prices.

When the quality is off and ticket prices are high, STH-ers are selling to out-of-towners. I don't blame them. I'd do the same.

Message to Ownership: Either improve the product... or lower ticket prices (yeah, RIGHT!).

You know what will bring the excitement?

WINNING.


You know who will bring the excitement?

The Seahawks players who are doing the WINNING.

HawkRiderFan said:

Funny cause one of these 2 names was maligned here this week, but JSN (obviously) and Walker on offence. Walker has shown he can be a home run hitter if he gets some blocking.
Spoon on D. Would be nice if Murphy can develop into a disruptor on D where you are expecting him in the backfield more often than not

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Walker? Isn't he on the trading block? Our director, Willie Schneider, is shopping him around?

toffee said:

Walker? Isn't he on the trading block? Our director, Willie Schneider, is shopping him around?

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Rumors and speculation. Haven't heard a really reliable source saying something is in the works. Would definitely not like to see him elsewhere.

We are not a good team now. We've only gotten worse so far since the end of last season. Who's going to bring the excitement this year? My guesses...Witherspoon, Murphy, Williams, JSN...who am I missing?

NoGain said:

We are not a good team now. We've only gotten worse so far since the end of last season. Who's going to bring the excitement this year? My guesses...Witherspoon, Murphy, Williams, JSN...who am I missing?

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Murphy, will be interesting watching him develop more. Can he be the big dog? Should be fun finding out.

onanygivensunday said:

Visiting fans buying up our home tickets is a consequence of two things... the quality of the product Seahawks ownership is putting on the field... and ticket prices.

When the quality is off and ticket prices are high, STH-ers are selling to out-of-towners. I don't blame them. I'd do the same.

Message to Ownership: Either improve the product... or lower ticket prices (yeah, RIGHT!).

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Don’t get me wrong, I do agree with you @onanygivensunday. I think prices are exorbitant as well. However there is a part of me that thinks if you can’t afford the tickets, then don’t be a STH. If you can somehow afford them only when the team is making playoff runs (when you actually shell out more $ for playoff games), then…….well….I don’t know.

I accomplished a life long goal of becoming a big four STH this past year (NHL). Well, I have half season which is plenty for me (and more affordable) at 21 games. I have decent seats, but the slightly better ones next to me have different opposing fans in them every single game. Whoever bought them obviously bought them with the exclusive intent to resell. It shouldn’t, but it just irks me a little knowing that fans are on the wait list that would love to support the team and enjoy the games.

Like most over 40 (I’m 52) on .net, we take pride in having been fans during the lean years, so as a life long Seahawks fan, it’s just weird seeing huge waves of opposing fans. But hell, it would have probably looked that way in my day as well had we had e tickets and internet. In my day you had to either: 1. List your paper tickets in the Times for sale for local pickup or leave in will call. 2. Sell them (or gift them) to a co worker or neighbor when you couldn’t make the game. Both options kept the stadiums full of blue and green.

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I'm stoked for the season and to see how the draft lays out.

When I look at what MM and JS have done with the team this offseason:

Bringing in Kubiak, and zone blocking line coaches,
trading Smith and Metcalf for picks and lowered cap,
Getting Darnold and Kupp as replacements for less money,
searching for IOL in FA (but missing on them),
filling in other weakened areas at TE, LB, PR, and DT
knowing we have 10 picks in a TRENCHES type of draft

What's not to be excited about?

I think some of y'all forget that you're not the professionals/experts in this situation. You're opinion amounts to hot air just as mine does. But damn, I've seen some terrible teams in my 52 years of life. I was in Houston when the Oilers defected to Tennessee. That team went south just to get the hell out of town. I watched the Houston Texans in the early years make mistake after mistake: LT Tony Boselli never played a down for them & QB David Carr is still running for his life. Y'all should thank them for choosing to enter the AFC instead of the NFC. The Seattle Seahawks wouldn't have had a SuperBowl without that decision.

Believe me when I say, there is something special going on with MM, Kubiak, Durde and the gang. We're about to take the NFC West and NFL by storm!

Wolfiegrrl said:

When I look at what MM and JS have done with the team this offseason:

Bringing in Kubiak, and zone blocking line coaches,
trading Smith and Metcalf for picks and lowered cap,
Getting Darnold and Kupp as replacements for less money,
searching for IOL in FA (but missing on them),
filling in other weakened areas at TE, LB, PR, and DT
knowing we have 10 picks in a TRENCHES type of draft

What's not to be excited about?

I think some of y'all forget that you're not the professionals/experts in this situation. You're opinion amounts to hot air just as mine does. But damn, I've seen some terrible teams in my 52 years of life. I was in Houston when the Oilers defected to Tennessee. That team went south just to get the hell out of town. I watched the Houston Texans in the early years make mistake after mistake: LT Tony Boselli never played a down for them & QB David Carr is still running for his life. Y'all should thank them for choosing to enter the AFC instead of the NFC. The Seattle Seahawks wouldn't have had a SuperBowl without that decision.

Believe me when I say, there is something special going on with MM, Kubiak, Durde and the gang. We're about to take the NFC West and NFL by storm!

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Also add the fact that the 49ers are taking an obvious step (or two) back this season, combined with the Cardinals STILL being the Cardinals.....and our own schedule this season looking VERY FAVORABLE....

This season is most definitely shaping up to be, at the very least, a Playoff year.

Guys --- home field advantage is antiquated and barely exists league wide anymore. Every team has adjusted to the noise, and if anything it's become a problem for the defense, as they also need to react and communicate to the offensive complexities.

I don't like going to a game with a bunch of Packer fans anymore than anyone else, but it has zero impact on wins or losses in my ever so humble opinion.