Big Cat

[GetNjigbaWithIt]

Grown Man View attachment 68368

Kitty's got claws

 

[SoulfishHawk]

I like it. More than a little bit.

 

[Hawkpower]

And if you didn't love him enough already, he took a shot at Aaron Rodgers after the game.

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Saw him jawing at Erin quite a bit during the game too

Love it

 

[Rat]

Remember all the bean counters crying when we traded for him? Let that be a lesson to ignore them in the future. They only act like they know anything useful.

I think we all knew he was a phenomenal player. A lot of people questioned whether it was worth trading a second-round pick for a 29-year-old DT who was set to be a free agent at year's end. And then we lost five of the first six games after the trade, so it looked like we had traded a potentially good second-round pick for a ten-game rental in a season we weren't looking like a contender anyway. I think it was probably fair criticism at the time.

We did re-sign him. I've seen a number of people who are convinced we wouldn't have been able to re-sign him without the trade, but there's really no way of knowing that. These guys almost always just go to the team offering the most money. Could we have signed him and then kept our second-round pick? It ended up being the 47th pick. We probably could have gotten someone who would be doing more than Christian Haynes. The Steelers took an interior lineman a few picks later (Zach Frazier) who PFF has ranked as one of the best centers in the league, and not just among rookies. Among our eight second-round picks in the previous five drafts are some of our biggest contributors right now: Mafe, Hall, DK, KW3. Although, you also have D'Wayne Eskridge and Darrell Taylor. Probably not fair to make a judgment on Marquise Blair, and it's too early on Charbonnet.

Who knows though? Happy he's a Seahawk.

 

[toffee]

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A 300 pounder intercepted a pass and ran 90 yards for a pick 6, if he isn't the defense player of the week. we all should quit watching.

 

[Rat]

It really cannot be understated how impressive that pick-six was:

Williams is a is 300lb 30-year-old, ten-year vet who has averaged 15.8 games per season (he had to play 18 last year because the Giants traded him before their bye and after ours). In the past two weeks, he has played 74% of our defensive snaps, tops among our defensive lineman. While that number might not sound insane, keep in mind that after Williams, Mafe is second at 72%, and then there's a big drop before you get to Dre'Mont Jones at third with 55%. He has been carrying a big load for a much-improved defense.

On that play, Williams dropped into coverage, made the interception, and then ran 92 yards for the TD... without ever slowing down or even looking remotely out of breath. On most big man TDs of half that distance, the guy looks like they're on the verge of dropping dead as they reach the end zone, and then you see them huffing oxygen on the sidelines like George Costanza after pushing down old ladies to escape a small fire at a kid's birthday party.

Leonard clearly takes his conditioning seriously.

 

[Ad Hawk]

It really cannot be understated how impressive that pick-six was:

Williams is a is 300lb 30-year-old, ten-year vet who has averaged 15.8 games per season (he had to play 18 last year because the Giants traded him before their bye and after ours). In the past two weeks, he has played 74% of our defensive snaps, tops among our defensive lineman. While that number might not sound insane, keep in mind that after Williams, Mafe is second at 72%, and then there's a big drop before you get to Dre'Mont Jones at third with 55%. He has been carrying a big load for a much-improved defense.

On that play, Williams dropped into coverage, made the interception, and then ran 92 yards for the TD... without ever slowing down or even looking remotely out of breath. On most big man TDs of half that distance, the guy looks like they're on the verge of dropping dead as they reach the end zone, and then you see them huffing oxygen on the sidelines like George Costanza after pushing down old ladies to escape a small fire at a kid's birthday party.

Leonard clearly takes his conditioning seriously.

Big Cat was sucking O2 for a bit. But he deserved ever breath!

 

[pittpnthrs]

A 300 pounder intercepted a pass and ran 90 yards for a pick 6, if he isn't the defense player of the week. we all should quit watching.

When I saw the score updates at the bottom of the screen and it said L.Williams 91 yard INT TD I said, wait WHAT? I couldn't believe it.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

It really cannot be understated how impressive that pick-six was:

Williams is a is 300lb 30-year-old, ten-year vet who has averaged 15.8 games per season (he had to play 18 last year because the Giants traded him before their bye and after ours). In the past two weeks, he has played 74% of our defensive snaps, tops among our defensive lineman. While that number might not sound insane, keep in mind that after Williams, Mafe is second at 72%, and then there's a big drop before you get to Dre'Mont Jones at third with 55%. He has been carrying a big load for a much-improved defense.

On that play, Williams dropped into coverage, made the interception, and then ran 92 yards for the TD... without ever slowing down or even looking remotely out of breath. On most big man TDs of half that distance, the guy looks like they're on the verge of dropping dead as they reach the end zone, and then you see them huffing oxygen on the sidelines like George Costanza after pushing down old ladies to escape a small fire at a kid's birthday party.

Leonard clearly takes his conditioning seriously.

No doubt. The athleticism of this guy is ridiculous. Plus he basically jumped over a guy before he ran down the sidelines. And the speed for his size? wow

 

[Jville]

Williams hit 17.84 miles per hour on the return, making it the fastest play by a defensive tackle as a ball carrier since Week 4 of the 2019 season when Ndamukong Suh reached 18.04 mph on a fumble return touchdown.

Williams covered a total of 109.47 yards on the play, the most of any Seahawks player on the field, while the fastest player on the field for the play was safety Coby Bryant, who reached 19.96 mph running down the field to block for Williams, followed by cornerbacks Josh Jobe and Devon Witherspoon, who both hit 19.78 mph.

Link >>> https://www.seahawks.com/news/seahawks-next-gen-stat-of-the-week-big-speed-from-the-big-cat

 

[Pandion Haliaetus]

Leonard Williams was very impressive. It was not exactly the same design but similar in how Geno was intercepted vs the Cards but the guy that made that play was a LB or DB. It was more impressive to me than the actual run back that Williams could close the trajectory on that ball in the first place.

What wasn’t impressive was Garrett Wilson basically trying to cut block Williams, so lucky William was able to feel him and avoid the weak ass tackle attempt because that could have been a potentially season ender injury. If Wilson just makes a shoestring grab I’m sure he would have been much more successful in trying to bring Williams.

Yet the most impressive thing was the jailbreak of Seahawks protecting Williams to Pick-6 destiny. I felt Ernest Jones was the first to react to the Int and he slowed down would be pursuers by getting in front of them and slowing down. Then you see Witherspoon flash into the mix faster than everyone else like he wasn’t going to be denied being apart of this in some way. Spoon ends up nullifying the last person in pursuit simply by switching lanes and crossing over and thusly taking the last guy out without even touching him not sure if it would have mattered but just the fire and determination to help the cause it was very impressive to me. Just being one of the last guys to come into the play and then actually doing something to help out.

That’s how you know this defense is for real, that’s how you know these guys a playing for each other, they are together, and I have a feeling nobody wants to face this version the Seahawks defense right now.

Just saw last post and link and was cool to see the players pathing, thought Bryant was closer to the play at first but he shot out of cannon too.

 

[Pandion Haliaetus]

Link >>> https://www.seahawks.com/news/seahawks-next-gen-stat-of-the-week-big-speed-from-the-big-cat

Also, the coolest thing I didn’t remember was that Spoon looked he was trying to take 75 out of the play and Jones was heading towards 78. Once Jones saw Witherspoon, it like they communicated maybe telepathically because Jones then chooses to wall off and impede 75. And Witherspoon catches up to and runs off 78 enough to take him out of the picture. Even without Spoon or Jones interference I don’t think either 75 or 78 were catching Williams. Just the overall hustle as well as the in-the-moment strategy was very sweet.

However, the only guy that I even thought had the chance to catch Williams watching live was Wilson, who honestly like I said in the above post made a half ass tackle attempt and then the graphic pathing in the link shows a half ass pursuit attempt as well, with Wilson eventually getting ran off by Bryant who had to make up somewhere between 10-15 yards.

Makes me appreciate DK a little more seeing Wilson’s effort on that tackle and pursuit. I don’t think DK lets a 300 pounder score so easily if he was in Wilson’s shoes. And remember Jets nabbed Wilson with one of the 1st rounders we gave up for Adams, don’t know what Seahawks do at #10 in that draft if they had the pick, just kind of happy we ended up with a different OSU WR in the end. Don’t get me wrong Wilson is solid enough but there is a reason they went out and got Davante Adams and this play kind of epitomizes a lack of killer instinct on Wilson’s part.

 

[Appyhawk]

Fun stuff watching the players interact on the sidelines after the score. Leonard spoke to Witherspoon, than as he walked away he said (to no one in particular) "I wanna play like Spoon when I grow up".

 

[cymatica]

And if you didn't love him enough already, he took a shot at Aaron Rodgers after the game.

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That's a common theme with all the old QBs. Brady was getting the same complaints his last year. Not sure if it's a shot, it's just the reality.

 

[LeveeBreak]

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Didn’t he have a field goal block as well? Or am I miss remembering that.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Yep