Short yardage issues

[Sperrydogg]

The debates between young Maelstrom and our senior member SoulFish is always fun to read, more fun after SoulFish enjoyed his old fashioned.

I tend to root for soulfish, but that’s cause we share similar opinions of geno and DK.

 

[toffee]

I tend to root for soulfish, but that’s cause we share similar opinions of geno and DK.

I am torn between Maelstrom for football opinions and SoulFish for our love of mixed drinks.

 

[Sperrydogg]

I am torn between Maelstrom for football opinions and SoulFish for our love of mixed drinks.

I prefer a stiff manhattan

 

[SNDavidson]

Give Leo Williams a couple tries on the goal line..

 

[toffee]

I prefer a stiff manhattan

Personally, I ordered more Manhattans than old-fashioned, I like that bit of vermouth. Negroni has been my goto for the past couple of years though.

 

[keasley45]

We're using Jalen Sundell in that role. Didn't really help unfortunately. It's just details. The offense lacks fundamental chemistry. The details are all wrong. They're out of sync constantly.

I don't think Grubb is going to last. I don't think Mac is happy with him.

X1000

 

[keasley45]

There's no secret here. Outside of the QB position the Seahawks don't have short yardage personnel at the skill positions. That's not to say they don't have good players. You absolutely don't need a specialist KR or PR. You DO need a receiver who can make contested 2 yard receptions and fall forward or glance off a hit for those extra inches when needed. You do need a RB who can find a tiny gap and not go down on 1st contact. You need 1 or 2 specialists in ugly football.

The WR you describe is DK. Fant has the body for that as well. So does Barner.

The problem is that DK is also 6'4. Barner is 6'6.

But rather than giving them throws they can body up and go up and grab over smaller DBs, Grubb goes in the Bevell bag of tricks and throws a quick slant to DK in blanket coverage... because , you know, NOBODY will see that coming.

 

[Lords of Scythia]

It’d be rad though, Murphy scoring a TD and then the dance

It gives me visions of the Fridge doing this - and coughing up the ball

 

[olyfan63]

Or a frisbee

In my weekly insiders-only meeting with John Scheider, he let slip that the NFL is working on adding a frisbee high-point catch even to the NFL Combine. He said the sticking point is that about half the teams want a hand catch, to test catch radius, while the other half are insisting on a mouth catch, to test vertical leap. I'm hoping the mouth catch contingent wins as my Malinois could be chosen as a first-rounder.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

The debates between young Maelstrom and our senior member SoulFish is always fun to read, more fun after SoulFish enjoyed his old fashioned.

I'm retiring from talking about Geno with him. Oh look, Geno missed ANOTHER WIDE OPEN TE in the End Zone. Let me guess....someone else's fault

/Sarcasm

 

[toffee]

I'm retiring from talking about Geno with him. Oh look, Geno missed ANOTHER WIDE OPEN TE in the End Zone. Let me guess....someone else's fault

Typing with two hands or one? You need a hand to hold that old-fashioned, right? I still have leftover Mimosa from brunch lol.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

You're not wrong, brother

 

[HawkRiderFan]

I know. Gregg Olson is not popular hear but I remember him saying after Charb got stuff on 4th and 1 vs the Niners how he mentioned no motion or shifting to give the D something to think about. I thought of that today on the the 1 yard TD run and a few other short yardage plays where we got guys in motion. Seems to work.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Honestly, Geno played fine. Missed a few, but all QBs do. Back to back games without a pick. I'll take it.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

176 rushing yards today. YUUUUUGE

 

[SoulfishHawk]

The debates between young Maelstrom and our senior member SoulFish is always fun to read, more fun after SoulFish enjoyed his old fashioned.

At this point, I think it has run it's course.
Side note, I'm not THAT old

 

[olyfan63]

I know. Gregg Olson is not popular hear but I remember him saying after Charb got stuff on 4th and 1 vs the Niners how he mentioned no motion or shifting to give the D something to think about. I thought of that today on the the 1 yard TD run and a few other short yardage plays where we got guys in motion. Seems to work.

Greg Olsen, in hindsight, has been right on over 50% of his analysis of the Seahawks, over 2 different coaching regimes, including the one he played for. He's better than a coin flip. Remember when he said the Seahawks offense, under Russell, was like a JV offense? Eventually it all came out after the Russell trade. So he could just be correct again here.

 

[Appyhawk]

I have a Belgian Malinois who likes to fetch frisbees. When we started, 3 weeks ago, she would jump randomly as soon as I threw it, with no care about where it was actually going, and then run after it. 3 weeks later, now she patiently observes where the frisbee is going, chases it down, adjusts to its flight pattern, and makes an acrobatic jump to high point the frisbee and catch it in her mouth. I'm shocked, because I worried the random jump was as good as it was going to get. I didn't do anything special, just gave her consistent reps and she improved on her own.

I've observed, historically, that DK "underperforms" on contested high point catches. Or is there a highlight reel that disproves this belief? Anyway, I don't know if that underperformance is true again this season, DK has probably been working on that and may have improved. We need to give DK room to improve, and be alert for those times when he shows improvement, breaks the narrative. I'll be looking for those types of catches for the remainder of the season. Might be worth it to give DK a thread to document his high point successes and failures.

So our hope is that DK can be as smart as your dog? Good luck with that! LOL

 

[olyfan63]

So our hope is that DK can be as smart as your dog? Good luck with that! LOL

I know DK would excel at the mouth frisbee catch, so it would be the hand catch where he needs to improve. It's not just smarts, it's mindset. Actually, I was hoping to cash in with my puppers, signing bonus and all, but sadly, in the NFL they throw footballs instead of frisbees, and well, let's just say that she underperforms on the football catch skill. Then there is the trans-species discrimination to deal with. The physics computer in her little brain is pretty amazing though, for timing her leaps, and adjusting to flight pattern variations.