volsunghawk
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Rob12":3t39llxa said:volsunghawk":3t39llxa said:TXHawk":3t39llxa said:This "we're just a little team from South Alaska and the NFL doesn't want us in the Big Dance" mentality needs to end. There is no more marketable team in the country right now than the Seattle Seahawks.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
For the love of Paul Allen, will all of you PLEASE stop spreading this nonsense? This isn't 2003.
Do you know what the NFL loves just as much as its "legacy teams?"
Its "brash upstarts." Cocky, punch-you-in-the-mouth newcomers are just as marketable as the old standbys, if not moreso.
We've got the Boy Scout leader, the Guy Everyone Loves to Hate, and the Enigma, and even casual fans know them. More importantly, we're winning. Ergo, the NFL is making bank on the Seahawks and will continue to do so for a long, long time.
All of you claiming otherwise are either just reacting out of habit or haven't been paying attention.
I hate to even bring this up because your post was awesome, but then how is our penalty disparity so enormous when comparing the teams we play? I don't think the NFL wants us to lose, but when you look at the sheer data, something does smell a bit afoul.
We've been among the league leaders in penalties since Carroll got here, and it has ZERO to do with a league conspiracy. It has to do with the fact that the Hawks players are coached to go full speed, all the time. Carroll wants fast, he wants power, he wants physicality. That results in penalties when that speed is exercised a touch early or that power is targeted at the wrong time or in the wrong location or that physicality is too egregious.
He's got players playing right on the edge of what's legal and what isn't, and it is a huge boon to our team. He's willing to take the penalties as a sacrifice for that kind of play.
As for the disparity and teams we face seeming to almost never get penalized, I think you can chalk it up to perspective. The way the Seahawks fly around, they're going to usually make other teams look like they must be playing within the rules for the most part.