"Seahawks are not a good road team"

[FlyingGreg]

Mark Schlereth on Mike & Mike this morning, on why he is picking the Colts.

We are 5-1 in our last 6 road games, including a road playoff win. 30 seconds from 6-0. We just found a way to beat a quality opponent on the road with 60% of our starting offensive line out.

I know it's not pretty, but W's away from C Link are valuable.

 

[TJH]

I wouldn't say we're a bad road team anymore, but we probably have the largest drop-off of any team going from home to road.

 

[FlyingGreg]

I wouldn't say we're a bad road team anymore, but we probably have the largest drop-off of any team going from home to road.

Yes. And yet we have won 5 of our last 6.

 

[sutz]

I wouldn't say we're a bad road team anymore, but we probably have the largest drop-off of any team going from home to road.

Yeah, from winning by 3 scores to winning by one.

:mrgreen:

 

[PlinytheCenter]

Schlereth is, and has always been, a Seahawks hater.

 

[Nothinbutm]

Wait, what? I just watched Countdown Daily on ESPN.com, and Schlereth picked the Seahawks to win. Hedging his bets much?

 

[Sarlacc83]

It's a good thing he told me that, or I'd have been confused by our 2-0 road record this season. I mean, the Panthers are terrible, what with their #6 ranked DVOA.

 

[pehawk]

This is the opposite of what our man EmDiggy does. Saying "the Seahawks are a not a good road team" is a safe statement passed as analysis. I don't begrudge Stinky, there's 32 teams, and he cant exactly be an expert on every one.

Also, the statement is true for any team. It's a statement that's universal.

 

[SmokinHawk]

I don't understand why he would say that anymore. Sure, we may not win decisively on the road sometimes, but the point is that we win, and often times we leave a broken, dejected team in our wake.

 

[bestfightstory]

That's our reputation. Reputations are hard things to shake. Schlereth is using lazy analysis but most NFL teams are weaker away from home and as strong as we are at home our dropoff is (historically) more significant.

 

[Largent80]

He knows better. And as mr. Gliiter pointed out, we have a history of sucking, but to say that in the last year is as inaccurate a statement as one can make.

 

[Birdfinger]

Its lazy research. Just sputter out things he's heard other people say during the offseason and early this season and thats good enough for the segment. Its not an easy job to be up on the most current status of all 32 teams. I'm sure he's up on the teams he's most interested in and just coasts along on the other teams.

Just lazy. :metallicblue.:

 

[theENGLISHseahawk]

In fairness to Schlereth... he's far from the only one to trot out this lazy comment.

The media assumes we're terrible on the road and great at home.

And while we're not amazing on the road, or even frighteningly clinical like (for example) the Pats, you can't argue with a 5-1 record in the last six with the only defeat coming agonisingly against a 13-3 team in the playoffs.

 

[CANHawk]

Schlereth was a Donkey in the 90's. He hates us for the same reason Marshall Faulk hates us.

But who cares what that guy thinks. He pees his pants.

 

[Kixkahn]

Ya, a game in Canada against Buffalo was just barely a win? A win is a win is a win.

 

[ivotuk]

Its lazy research. Just sputter out things he's heard other people say during the offseason and early this season and thats good enough for the segment. Its not an easy job to be up on the most current status of all 32 teams. I'm sure he's up on the teams he's most interested in and just coasts along on the other teams.

Just lazy. :metallicblue.:

Spot on. Schlereth is lazy and he's been that way a long time. Its pitiful because he should be up on the top ten if not the top five teams in the nfl.

 

[Laloosh]

Indy went into SF missing 2 starters on their o-line. They played well in both halves which cannot be said for us in either of our two games on the road this year. I don't think he's being lazy so much as agreeing with commonly held opinion outside of SEA fans.

We found a way to win but we didn't look like Indy did in either of our road wins. There is a HUGE difference in how their performance differs from ours (when considering perception).

And anybody who wants to contradict me, go read the game day thread or a transcript from live chat at the end of the first half when we were @Houston.

 

[RolandDeschain]

I know it's not pretty, but W's away from C Link are valuable.

Wrong. Wins are ALWAYS pretty. :lol:

In all seriousness, this is a good match-up overall, and we're on the road. I don't blame anyone that thinks the Colts will win. I blame anyone dumb enough to think they win by more than a small margin over us, though. The Seahawks simply do not get blown out anymore, NO MATTER WHAT. Period. End of story.

 

[12thMan1]

Let's get something straight. The Seahawks are a "good" road team. They're not "great" which is probably stating the obvious for most if not all of you. Until they can consistently play dominant (by that I mean not playing from behind and having to have the defense bail out the offense or visa versa) football, they're not going to be road warriors IMO.

 

[Goldust]

It's comical to call a team that's 2-0 on the road thus far "not a good team".

If you're willing to accept empirical evidence, our start puts us in the company of New England, Miami (2-1), Indianapolis, Denver (1-0), Kansas City, and New Orleans (1-0). What a rag-tag collection of "not good road teams".

Just another ignorant idiot.