MacDonald Locker Room Speech

[oldhawkfan]

I love these speeches!

Interesting to see Darnold here, though. hmm...

Anyway, Mike has to be on cloud-nine right now because THIS Is who (Defense) he wants to win games.

Why is it interesting to see Darnold in a Seahawks locker room after a game? Is he not the teams QB? For all you mind readers out there summarizing his thoughts from a half second shot from a video clip, you are wrong. He’s actually thinking he wishes Mike would hurry up because he has to pee.

 

[HawkFreak]

Time for someone in that organization to have a serious talk with him about clock management. Why settle for a long FG, when you had 3 timeouts in your pocket and 1:46 minutes to drive the ball down the field. That is not putting your team in a position to succeed. Head scratching to me.

In the moment I thought this too. But coach had a sense that the Vikes weren't going to be able to do anything against this D on this day. So it was about chewing up clock.

 

[Ozzy]

I'm not so sure I'm seeing what y'all are seeing re: Sam.

Maybe he's just in the middle of trying to take his jersey/pads off?

Yeah I don't get it either? We get like a second of him looking at coach.

 

[hawker84]

In the moment I thought this too. But coach had a sense that the Vikes weren't going to be able to do anything against this D on this day. So it was about chewing up clock.

The score was 10 - 0 going into that ladt drive. We had kicked one field goal and scored on defense up to that point. Not exactly an offense juggernaut.

Having confidence in your defense is great and all, but you have to put your opponents down for good when you have them down.. If what you say is true, that's a problem, and a terrible stance for a coach to take that early in a game. I'm sorry, but that cant be his thinking.

 

[hawker84]

They managed the clock perfectly. They were playing a team that couldn't score a point against us.

We can agree to disagree.

 

[hawker84]

Because a struggling offense has never come out of the half on fire? You can’t just take back momentum at will. As much as I hated the hoodie that is one thing he understood more than any other coach. Maximum effort start to finish, embarrass the other team to keep momentum.

This .

Some of y'alls reasoning is head scratching to say the least. You do know that most teams make their adjustments at half time. Which is why you always keep your foot on the gas, while you have a team down.

 

[Nv_Hawks]

Can someone explain this term “12 is one”. I hear MM use this often.

 

[Kamcussionator]

I like that we keep taking the field goals instead of the suddenly trendy 4 down or bust strategy. Our opponents may breathe a sigh of relief on the first one, but by the 3rd or the 4th it’s not a “small victory” any more.

On the last drive, I was surprised we didn’t kick a 5th. It would have put us at 22 points, adding a 2-point conversion to the 3 TDs needed to catch up.

Not that anything short of a pick 6 or a scoop and score was going to get Minny back in the game, but it seemed a little uncharacteristic. Maybe MM was just thinking clock or thought it would be fun…

 

[Appyhawk]

They managed the clock perfectly. They were playing a team that couldn't score a point against us.

AND with a 23 pt lead. Killing the clock is the primary objective. Instead they managed to stretch the lead even more. Scratch that!

 

[hox]

Here's the EJ clip that wasn't in the other one:

 

[Sperrydogg]

Time for someone in that organization to have a serious talk with him about clock management. Why settle for a long FG, when you had 3 timeouts in your pocket and 1:46 minutes to drive the ball down the field. That is not putting your team in a position to succeed. Head scratching to me.

We don’t play offense like that. We rope-a-dope

 

[Sperrydogg]

Why is it interesting to see Darnold in a Seahawks locker room after a game? Is he not the teams QB? For all you mind readers out there summarizing his thoughts from a half second shot from a video clip, you are wrong. He’s actually thinking he wishes Mike would hurry up because he has to pee.

Actually he was thinking, “where’s my other shoe daymit. I gotta stop leaving my shit lying around”

 

[HawkRiderFan]

IMO MacDonald was playing the game situation at the end of the first half. He's been aggressive using his timeouts and going down the field in that situation earlier this year. I was holding my breath on every drop back in the first half, between the sacks and balls deflected at the line. The D was showing by then that the Vikings were not going to get anything unless we handed it to them.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

They won 26-0. Come on guys, even the Debbiest of Debbies should be able to enjoy a shutout win.
IF this was the Rams winning 26-0, I can guess what some would be saying, especially the media types.
There are things to clean up of course.

 

[Wsumatt1982]

Time for someone in that organization to have a serious talk with him about clock management. Why settle for a long FG, when you had 3 timeouts in your pocket and 1:46 minutes to drive the ball down the field. That is not putting your team in a position to succeed. Head scratching to me.

I saw nothing wrong with it. The offense couldn't do a thing against us. Our offense couldn't do a thing against them either. No sense in having something go horribly wrong and give them any momentum when we basically have the game in hand only at 10-0.

 

[hox]

Don't really buy the argument that the other offense sucked so it's OK to waste time.

An extra 10 seconds and 10 yards in that Rams game and maybe Myers makes the field goal.

I don't think this offense has a hurry-up variant. That's an issue come playoff time when points are at a premium.

 

[hawker84]

I saw nothing wrong with it. The offense couldn't do a thing against us. Our offense couldn't do a thing against them either. No sense in having something go horribly wrong and give them any momentum when we basically have the game in hand only at 10-0.

Agree to disagreement.

 

[HawkFreak]

This .

Some of y'alls reasoning is head scratching to say the least. You do know that most teams make their adjustments at half time. Which is why you always keep your foot on the gas, while you have a team down.

No amount of adjustments were going to help the Vikings yesterday. That's not a head scratcher.

 

[Runscott]

We scored and left only a couple of seconds on the clock at the end of the half. I call that a success.

I didn't have a problem with kicking a field goal - 3 points at that time was almost like a nail in the coffin, the way our defense was playing, and the way they were all over Darnold, why take chances when you didn't need to? But use the clock a little better and make it a shorter field goal attempt.

 

[NoGain]

I didn't have a problem with kicking a field goal - 3 points at that time was almost like a nail in the coffin, the way our defense was playing, and the way they were all over Darnold, why take chances when you didn't need to? But use the clock a little better and make it a shorter field goal attempt.

The problem with what you said here is that the clock had nothing to do with making it a shorter/longer FG attempt. Their defense stopped us. If MM had used the clock "better", as you said, and called an earlier timeout, the Vikings would have gotten the ball back with time on the clock of their own, an opportunity to score, and put our D back on the field.