Leave No Doubt.

[chris98251]

I don't get the damn trap game stuff, first game of the season, we have a point to make to rectify how we went out in Atlanta, Pete said he wanted to fix our slow starts in games and be more up tempo at the beginning , there area lot of factors that tell me we are not going to simply wait for the Panthers to give us the game.

Now the anything cn happen on any given Sunday is the biggest problem I have, on the road when something weird happens it can snowball quickly.

I have not forgot Arizona last year.

 

[nsport]

At halftime during the NFL kickoff game, Baltimore led Denver 17-14. If not for a horrific drop by Dallas Clark, they would have been up 21-14. I'm guessing there were more than a few Broncos fans feeling real doubts during that halftime.

Then Wes Welker picked a 3rd and long reception off the ground and the refs didn't it see it. And John Harbaugh apparently couldn't get the challenge flag out of his pocket. What seemed like moments later, Denver jumped ahead 28-17. They'd go on to make it a laugher: 49-27. And It should have been 56-27. Utter dominance.

Maybe if the refs call that play correctly against Welker, who knows how that game unfolds? Maybe a vastly inferior team like Baltimore pulls off an insane upset win for the 2nd time in two tries. Hey, the Cardinals beat our Seahawks before getting demolished by them 58-0 later on during the very same season. Football is such a momentum based sport. It's ridiculous.

Maybe we lose to Carolina this weekend. Stranger things have happened. But just like how Baltimore beat the Broncos last January, or how Arizona beat Seattle in week 1, that doesn't mean they are actually better teams, or even close to being as good.

If the Seahawks play their best football 16 times this regular season they will be 16-0. Football is played by humans though, not robots. Even our QB is not actually a robot. Sometimes you will have 3 fluke INTs and a timeout that isn't seen and we lose a heartbreaker to a bad team. I expect we'll have at least one or two of those again this year. But most teams have random games they lose that they shouldn't. That's just life.

I think our team is so talented, so well coached, so cohesive, it's almost unfair to the rest of the NFL. If anyone still actually doubts the Seahawks, they should be slapped, and then maybe shaken by the shoulders a little too. That doesn't mean we'll win every game we're supposed to. It just means we're the last team anybody wants to see on their schedule.

May I nominate this as the POTD? Fantastic post - I hope everyone gets a chance to read it.

 

[Hawks46]

There are a lot of variables, but:

IF our passing game plays at 80%, we're still going to dominate the Panthers' secondary.

If our run game plays 90%, we're going to stall against their front 7.

If our defense as a whole plays at 90%, we're going to throttle their offense.

If we win the turnover battle, we will probably win.

I think we win this game. If a lot of things don't go quite right, it will be close. Add that to the early East Coast start factor.

If we click, it will be a thunder stomp. They just don't have the talent, athleticism, and size that we do.

I'm strangely calm about this one, which might be a bad sign. I'm actually more nervous about SF next week, although most here aren't.