"The Best Seahawks Yet" Article from the 11th

[ivotuk]

"The Best Seahawks Yet" (Maybe he meant "Best Seahawks YETI" and that would be Okung)

"Making the case for why this Seahaws team heading to Charlotte for the divisional round of the playoffs is the most dangerous Seattle has ever had"

"Bevell isn’t the only Seahawks coordinator who found a late-season groove. First-year defensive caller Kris Richard, like his predecessor Dan Quinn and Quinn’s predecessor Gus Bradley, saw his unit allow the fewest points in all of football (marking four straight years).

Richard is Exhibit C. Early in the season he introduced a variety of new coverage and pressure packages to this defense, which had previously prospered by playing a very vanilla, even simplistic, hybrid man-zone single-high safety scheme. (The man-to-man was outside, the zone inside.) It appeared Richard was trying to put his own stamp on this decorated unit. "

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/01/11/seat ... l-playoffs

 

[HawKnPeppa]

"The Best Seahawks Yet" (Maybe he meant "Best Seahawks YETI" and that would be Okung)

"Making the case for why this Seahaws team heading to Charlotte for the divisional round of the playoffs is the most dangerous Seattle has ever had"

"Bevell isn’t the only Seahawks coordinator who found a late-season groove. First-year defensive caller Kris Richard, like his predecessor Dan Quinn and Quinn’s predecessor Gus Bradley, saw his unit allow the fewest points in all of football (marking four straight years).

Richard is Exhibit C. Early in the season he introduced a variety of new coverage and pressure packages to this defense, which had previously prospered by playing a very vanilla, even simplistic, hybrid man-zone single-high safety scheme. (The man-to-man was outside, the zone inside.) It appeared Richard was trying to put his own stamp on this decorated unit. "

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/01/11/seat ... l-playoffs

Good stuff!

Earlier in the season, a felt Kris Richard was one of the reasons for the regression because he was straying from what the D' has been most successful at. You don't often have Sherm, Kam and Earl trying to hash things out in a one-hour meeting following a game (Carolina loss). Cary Williams was an even bigger factor in the D's overall inconsistency, but that busted coverage against Carolina didn't involve him. Although a busted coverage is ultimately the players' fault, Kris Richard's changes to something that wasn't really broken were fully in the mix of that confusion.

Glad to the coaches looked at things closely enough to know that cutting Williams was just part of the solution.

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

That article pretty much nailed it. I'm seeing a Kansas City vs. Seattle matchup in Santa Clara being far more than a serious possibility as each day rolls by.

 

[Aussie Seahawk]

That article pretty much nailed it. I'm seeing a Kansas City vs. Seattle matchup in Santa Clara being far more than a serious possibility as each day rolls by.

This prompted me to look up how many teams have made it to the Superbowl since wildcards first existed, in 1978. Ten wildcard teams have made it, and six won it! There was one Superbowl in which both teams were wildcards, but that was in the 82/3 season, when there was a shortened season, owing to a players' strike, and in the first round of the playoffs, all match-ups were deemed wildcard games, apparently.

Charles