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I don't care who you are. If you are playing 3 games in 11 days that is a tall order, period. I wish we would have went at least 1-2 in that stretch but it is what it is. Injuries are never excuses since every team has to deal with them to varying degree, but it's also foolish not to consider them as part of the issue.

First and foremost, what this team needs is rest. Time to take a breath. Heal up some of those injuries and really have the proper amount of time to practice and install a solid game plan for Atlanta. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by a .500 record after 6 games with a completely overhauled coaching staff and scheme. This simply takes time in the NFL. Sure, there are those Cinderella stories where the new coach lights a spark and gets his new team into the playoffs in Year 1, but that is the outlier.

Time will tell if Mike can get us to the postseason this year. No matter if your glass is half full or half empty, it's just too early to tell how this season will ultimately play out.

Players don't believe it's the new scheme that has been challenging, rather the age-old issues of poor gap containment, angles, etc. Jordan Love spoke on this after the game.

“I don’t want to excuse it to being the new scheme and all that stuff. I think it’s just fundamental stuff. We have to just keep it black and white in the meeting room and address what needs to be addressed in terms of simple stuff. And that’s the good part. That’s the promising part. It’s bread-and-butter things that we’re not executing on. Mike’s really trying to dial it up, and we just have to find a way to mesh and catch our flow. And so we’re still kind of catching that stride and trying to figure it out.”

If some of you want to poor on how crappy this team is, how much they suck, etc, you do you. For me, I am going to give this young team with a whole new coaching staff and scheme a chance to fall down, skin their knee, get back up and keep fighting until eventually they aren't falling down anymore.

It just takes time.
 

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Burns take a hell of a lot longer to heal than skinned knees and paper cuts though.
Just saying
 

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This team flat out needs this break, for several reasons.
Also, they're not really good at one thing. They have a pretty good pass game, but you can't really say that this team is great at SOMETHING.

Good at times, not great. At anything.
 
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I don't care who you are. If you are playing 3 games in 11 days that is a tall order, period. I wish we would have went at least 1-2 in that stretch but it is what it is. Injuries are never excuses since every team has to deal with them to varying degree, but it's also foolish not to consider them as part of the issue.

First and foremost, what this team needs is rest. Time to take a breath. Heal up some of those injuries and really have the proper amount of time to practice and install a solid game plan for Atlanta. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by a .500 record after 6 games with a completely overhauled coaching staff and scheme. This simply takes time in the NFL. Sure, there are those Cinderella stories where the new coach lights a spark and gets his new team into the playoffs in Year 1, but that is the outlier.

Time will tell if Mike can get us to the postseason this year. No matter if your glass is half full or half empty, it's just too early to tell how this season will ultimately play out.

Players don't believe it's the new scheme that has been challenging, rather the age-old issues of poor gap containment, angles, etc. Jordan Love spoke on this after the game.

“I don’t want to excuse it to being the new scheme and all that stuff. I think it’s just fundamental stuff. We have to just keep it black and white in the meeting room and address what needs to be addressed in terms of simple stuff. And that’s the good part. That’s the promising part. It’s bread-and-butter things that we’re not executing on. Mike’s really trying to dial it up, and we just have to find a way to mesh and catch our flow. And so we’re still kind of catching that stride and trying to figure it out.”

If some of you want to poor on how crappy this team is, how much they suck, etc, you do you. For me, I am going to give this young team with a whole new coaching staff and scheme a chance to fall down, skin their knee, get back up and keep fighting until eventually they aren't falling down anymore.

It just takes time.
This .

I think I got a little fooled by the fast start. This team is what it is at this point . MM hasn't had a half season yet people are wanting to fire this coordinator , fire the GM, and asking " who's gonna be the next head coach"?

I honestly think it will take at least a couple of years to get the cap under control, make some hard decisions regarding the players MM inherited and put HIS fingerprint on this team.

For you history buffs out there, PC had a few rough patches in his first couple of seasons , and he had a lot more experience than MacDonald. He was older , had coached in the NFL.

I'm not panicking , I am optimistic for the future .
 

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Interesting comment by Chris Long in the Insiders this week. Remember during the LOB glory days, that one of easiest bets was bet against the team coming off a game with Seattle due to the physicality? Well the Lions are the new us. Same thing is happening with them. Our game vs the Giants was a surprised but another one that makes you think was how Tampa got beat soundly at home by the Broncos a week later.
 

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It's almost impossible to not change your expectations. 3-0 is 3-0, no matter who you play.
Then again, the Deb's and the "they won, but" crowd were right. Can't wait to be told they were right too :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 

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Agreed. They just need to have a complete , relatively mistake free type game . Get their mind right . They'll come out the other side better for it
 

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This .

I think I got a little fooled by the fast start. This team is what it is at this point . MM hasn't had a half season yet people are wanting to fire this coordinator , fire the GM, and asking " who's gonna be the next head coach"?

I honestly think it will take at least a couple of years to get the cap under control, make some hard decisions regarding the players MM inherited and put HIS fingerprint on this team.

For you history buffs out there, PC had a few rough patches in his first couple of seasons , and he had a lot more experience than MacDonald. He was older , had coached in the NFL.

I'm not panicking , I am optimistic for the future .
Pete’s first three years were

7-9
7-9
11-5

By year three he had already implemented the players he wanted with his free agencies, drafts, and got his pieces.

If MM replicates this and we get a similar trend of winning seasons and post season success, I’ll happily take the lumps now.
 

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Good post, Dan. Expecting Mike to do things that Pete didn't right away? Unrealistic.
14 years of Pete with fairly strong regular season success, two NFC Championships, and two Super Bowl appearances with one win.

I’m not surprised people want or expected instant gratification.
 

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14 years of Pete with fairly strong regular season success, two NFC Championships, and two Super Bowl appearances with one win.

I’m not surprised people want or expected instant gratification.
INSTANT gratification? Care to tell us how long ago those Super Bowls were? And how much playoff success we have had since them? (hint 3 total playoff wins since The Interception.)

No need by any to act like Seahawks fans are entitled or impatient after a decade of failure.
 

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INSTANT gratification? Care to tell us how long ago those Super Bowls were? And how much playoff success we have had since them? (hint 3 total playoff wins since The Interception.)

No need by any to act like Seahawks fans are entitled or impatient after a decade of failure.
Pete got a lot of wiggle room. A lot. And it wasn’t entirely unwarranted. But even when his teams struggled a good chunk of this board would walk barefoot into Hell for him.

And, yeah, I do think a lot of the fans on here overestimated Seattle after starting 3-0. I’ve read those game day forums and the consensus was that Macdonald was unprepared to be a HC, giving up on him, asked about new HC prospects, wanted Pete back, saying he’s one and done.

Sure a lot of that is being dramatic after an intense game.

And Pete’s last decade was a failure in a sense that his postseason success was non-existent. Still plenty of 10 and 11 win seasons and for many on here, they flaunted that as reasons to keep him.
 

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Pete’s first three years were

7-9
7-9
11-5

By year three he had already implemented the players he wanted with his free agencies, drafts, and got his pieces.

If MM replicates this and we get a similar trend of winning seasons and post season success, I’ll happily take the lumps now.
There's a key difference, though. Pete took over a team devoid of talent, coming off nine total wins in the previous two seasons. He stripped the roster bare, rebuilt it from scratch, and still improved on the previous season. Meanwhile, Mike took over a talented young team that won 9 games last season. If Mike can't work with the guys they have, the Seahawks may have hired the wrong coach.
 

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Pete came in and made an immediate impact. Overhauled the roster AND culture. I remember fulling buying into his regime after we beat the chargers that year. I think it was week 3 but can't recall.
 

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This .

I think I got a little fooled by the fast start. This team is what it is at this point . MM hasn't had a half season yet people are wanting to fire this coordinator , fire the GM, and asking " who's gonna be the next head coach"?

I honestly think it will take at least a couple of years to get the cap under control, make some hard decisions regarding the players MM inherited and put HIS fingerprint on this team.

For you history buffs out there, PC had a few rough patches in his first couple of seasons , and he had a lot more experience than MacDonald. He was older , had coached in the NFL.

I'm not panicking , I am optimistic for the future .
Spot On Morg - I kind of had us figured for a .500 team - and we are just that. I think we will suffer this year and be forced to view some really shitty football at times - but will see occasional rays of sunshine as well. The second half looked much better than the first - still not good enough - but better.

I think we are a couple years away from true consistency and a move towards accomplishing anything of note.
 

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I don't care who you are. If you are playing 3 games in 11 days that is a tall order, period. I wish we would have went at least 1-2 in that stretch but it is what it is. Injuries are never excuses since every team has to deal with them to varying degree, but it's also foolish not to consider them as part of the issue.

First and foremost, what this team needs is rest. Time to take a breath. Heal up some of those injuries and really have the proper amount of time to practice and install a solid game plan for Atlanta. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by a .500 record after 6 games with a completely overhauled coaching staff and scheme. This simply takes time in the NFL. Sure, there are those Cinderella stories where the new coach lights a spark and gets his new team into the playoffs in Year 1, but that is the outlier.

Time will tell if Mike can get us to the postseason this year. No matter if your glass is half full or half empty, it's just too early to tell how this season will ultimately play out.

Players don't believe it's the new scheme that has been challenging, rather the age-old issues of poor gap containment, angles, etc. Jordan Love spoke on this after the game.

“I don’t want to excuse it to being the new scheme and all that stuff. I think it’s just fundamental stuff. We have to just keep it black and white in the meeting room and address what needs to be addressed in terms of simple stuff. And that’s the good part. That’s the promising part. It’s bread-and-butter things that we’re not executing on. Mike’s really trying to dial it up, and we just have to find a way to mesh and catch our flow. And so we’re still kind of catching that stride and trying to figure it out.”

If some of you want to poor on how crappy this team is, how much they suck, etc, you do you. For me, I am going to give this young team with a whole new coaching staff and scheme a chance to fall down, skin their knee, get back up and keep fighting until eventually they aren't falling down anymore.

It just takes time.
Spot on. For those who have a hard on for Petey boy, he was terrible his first 2 years here. Back to Back losing seasons. Peter wouldn't be doing any better right now. In fact, we'd most likely be 0-6. Macdonald's scheme is extremely complicated and is gonna take time to understand it. Like Aros said, it's the fundamentals that's killing us right now.
 

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Spot on. For those who have a hard on for Petey boy, he was terrible his first 2 years here. Back to Back losing seasons. Peter wouldn't be doing any better right now. In fact, we'd most likely be 0-6. Macdonald's scheme is extremely complicated and is gonna take time to understand it. Like Aros said, it's the fundamentals that's killing us right now.
Complicated and needs the right kind of guys , his guys to make it work. I can't think for a second this is the. Willing for him . He'll figure it out.
 
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