Not mad. I thought the seahawks would win 2 games all year with their roster.

[bevellisthedevil]

Pretty good year with that awful roster.

 

[Heyseed]

Young team

 

[Fade]

Pretty good year with that awful roster.

Their roster isn't awful.

Pro-Bowl caliber QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 2 Stud rookie Tackles. 3 headed monster at TE.

Defensively they have one of the better secondaries in the league. Nwosu coming off the edge, Taylor as a pass rusher paired with Mafe to handle the run.

Shelby Harris, Al Woods, and Poona Ford are good runstuffers when used properly.

They are awfully coached and are made to look worse than what they are, though. So I get the confusion.

 

[BASF]

Their roster isn't awful.

Pro-Bowl caliber QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 2 Stud rookie Tackles. 3 headed monster at TE.

Defensively they have one of the better secondaries in the league. Nwosu coming off the edge, Taylor as a pass rusher paired with Mafe to handle the run.

Shelby Harris, Al Woods, and Poona Ford are good runstuffers when used properly.

They are awfully coached and are made to look worse than what they are, though. So I get the confusion.

Yes. Clint Hurtt needs to go.

 

[TwistedHusky]

You thought the team would win 2 games (???) likely because the offense would struggle with no QB, a likely injured RB (Penny) and a rookie RB. The great WRs were supposed to struggle with no QB to throw to them and it wasn't going to matter because half our OL were rookies. The protection was going to be abysmal. The defense had some good players on it but the corners were rookies (and raw). Maybe we would get Brown back but likely would be focusing on not giving up big plays and just stopping teams in the RZ.
It was the reason I thought they would be .500 for the same reason.

That isn't what happened though.

The QB was exceptional and outplayed any (but Maelstrom's) production predictions. Penny was indeed injured but somehow Homer was decent and the rookie Walker shined (at least until he got injured). The WRs flourished and the OL provided very good protection considering the amount of rookie starters.
Weirdly, the defense was the weakness - when everyone went into this season thinking it would be the strength (especially with the draft capital we put into it). The run defense was basically nightmarish. The LBs especially, supposedly our most solid positions on D. While the corners did a damned good job considering.

We don't have a great DL but we don't have a terrible one. Basically adequate. Poorly used though. Again, we have a godawful passrush but with essentially some of the same players we had when we had a good pass rush. Might be the driver and not the car at this point.
Hurtt isn't struggling. He is terrible. It is one thing to be overmatched and struggling. Worse to be confidently wrong. Hurtt falls in that category.

Worries me that Desai hasn't been good enough to take over for Hurtt. Makes me wonder if Hurtt is being graded on something besides on-field results.

 

[bevellisthedevil]

Their roster isn't awful.

Pro-Bowl caliber QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 2 Stud rookie Tackles. 3 headed monster at TE.

Defensively they have one of the better secondaries in the league. Nwosu coming off the edge, Taylor as a pass rusher paired with Mafe to handle the run.

Shelby Harris, Al Woods, and Poona Ford are good runstuffers when used properly.

They are awfully coached and are made to look worse than what they are, though. So I get the confusion.

I am not saying their roster is awful now, I mean at the beginning of the season. What would the roster have looked like if the rookies would not have played?