Mistashoesta
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Hopefully one day it can return to this level. Some say just win and it will fix itself. I guess we'll see.
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SoulfishHawk
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It used to be so legit. Players around the NFL talked about it all the time. Hating to come here. The last few years, nobody hates coming here.
RiverDog
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Part if it was the travel, that we are so far off the beaten path that caused players not to like coming up here. But yeah, opposing teams used to practice by surrounding their field with huge speakers and play rock music to replicate the noise level in the Clink. I can remember one game during the Holmgren era vs. the Giants when they had something like 4 or 5 consecutive false starts due to the noise.
It didn't happen overnight. With the exception of the Covid year, I've gone to at least one home game a year virtually forever, was a season ticket holder back in the 80's-90's, and it was something we commented about 6-8 years ago, that the enthusiasm and noise level had diminished. Once the LOB disappeared, so did the 12th man. The advent of the secondary ticket market and electronic, transferrable tickets has been a huge factor in this decay.
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The team needs to become well known again as slobberknockers and reinstate the reality that if you come to play here expect to get shit & snot knocked out of you and cause you to know you will pay physically like the early days of the LOB. Having a better pass rush, one that gets sacks will help in that regard.
Winning at home will go a very long way to having that perception renewed. Having a legit running game will allow more home wins. Having a strong interior OLine will help the team to be able to run, along with a determination to run and more creative run scheming.
Winning at home will go a very long way to having that perception renewed. Having a legit running game will allow more home wins. Having a strong interior OLine will help the team to be able to run, along with a determination to run and more creative run scheming.
RiverDog
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I agree completely. The lack of the 12th man is the symptom of a larger, deeper problem that started 8 years ago.
It used to be on Fridays, you'd see lots of people wearing Seahawk jerseys to work. We used to call it Blue Friday. Even here in the Tri Cities, I used to see checkers at supermarkets wearing them. I supervised a crew of mostly immigrants who didn't know a football from a coconut, yet they'd go buy Seahawk jerseys so they could wear them on Fridays so they could feel like they were part of the gang. I don't see that anymore.
flv2
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Playing slobber-knocker football will result in an increase of injuries to opponents, but your players will also be subject to more injuries. Staying healthy is a big part of winning in December and beyond.
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Some of that is covid. Lots of tech companies aren't in the office on Fridays due to hybrid work.
I work with a lot of chiefs fans and it feels like every work call they are wearing chiefs gear. Helps when you have won 2 in a row and currently perennial contenders though. Probably lots of glory hunters there now
RiverDog
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Not sure if Covid is an adequate explanation. It certainly didn't affect those Chief fans you noted.
There just isn't the enthusiasm that there once was. I used to like to go into Buffalo Wild Wings here in Kennewick on SNF or MNF when the Hawks were playing, and it was absolutely electric, everyone on their feet, like you were in the stadium. Go in there now and everyone's seated at a table leaning back in their chairs, politely applaud when we score.
You can't blame the season ticket holders for selling their tickets to opposing fans. There should be Hawk fans lining up to buy them. A decade's worth of mediocre teams has taken its toll. It's going to take some time, a deep run into the playoffs, an exciting, dynamic player like a Mahomes/Allen/a young Russell, a snot knocking defender like Kam, a Beast Mode, to get the mojo back.
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OrangeGravy
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They don't even have to win necessarily. It all hinges on how good the defense is. The crowd gets loud on D. If the D shits the bed early and get stops, the fans lose their juice. At some point you lose trust in the defense and decide it's not worth being loud if they're just gonna give up another 3rd down conversion or worse, not even force 3rd downs. Doesn't even matter if there are tons of opponents fans in the building. If the D is locking it down those fans will turtle and ours will be loud.
Ask yourself when was the last time our D was good and it'll closely mirror our "lost" home field advantage
Lagartixa
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As more and more technological assistance for referees is implemented, there will be less and less home-field advantage in all sports. Home-field advantage has been shown pretty convincingly to come largely from referees being subtly influenced by the crowd and, consciously nor not, being more home-team-friendly with their calls on average over the length of the game. That doesn't mean they don't make bad calls against the home team or bad no-calls against the visitors. It just means that there's a clear tendency toward the home team that can be identified.
