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I keep reading post after post with folks talking about how poorly our offense is playing this year, and I have to wonder if any of the folks forwarding that thinking along, have listened to anything that anyone has said in recent history about the crap job the officials have been dumping on Seattle this year and the increasingly obvious fact that it isn't just a bunch of cry babies and sore loser, excuse making, die hard fans, making crap up.
Did anyone listen to Richard Sherman in the Thursday Press Conference? The guy is risking his ass telling the truth to everyone by way of possible fines or other disciplines from the NFL head office should they elect to try and suppress him.
Like Sherman said when asked by reporters about how concerned he was about retribution from higher ups as a result, he answered them "the truth is the truth, it is what is, this is supposed to be reality TV, and I must be good for ratings" maybe that's why no heat from on high.
For so many reasons I respect Richard Sherman, and some of the others out there who have risked having the heat brought down on them for speaking what they believe to be the truth,. I've been shooting my mouth off on this matter, since the first week of the season, and a lot of folks have written me off as a naïve Sunshine and Lollipops poster, wherein I excuse everything that suggest that Seahawks are not playing at their best, which is far from the truth.
I'll be the first to tell it like I see it, and have and have been ridiculed at times as a result, that's ok, I'm not easily swayed in my opinions and takes on things, but I will readily admit when I'm wrong or mistaken. I'm not saying that the Seahawk offense is without areas that need improvement, I am saying that if you were able to wave a magic wand and retract all of the unwarranted and out and out crap calls against the Seahawk offense alone, folks would have an entirely different take on them.
Why so many are willing to view all the penalties as justified and conclude that the Offenses failed efforts to convert and score, is due to their belief instead, that our offensive players are all a bunch of no talent bums, that can't score to save their souls. I beg to doubt.
I'll also check my know it all, can't ever be mistaken, all year campaign to paint the Seahawk offense as a bunch of rag tag wannabe losers that can't play at college level players, and open my mind and eyes up to some obvious truths, and admit I was wrong, like a number of posters have, and continue to do.
Some folks are so repulsed by the idea of having to eat a little crow, that goes along with admitting they are wrong, that they won't relent until the truth is so clear that even Helen Keller can see it. I truly hope that by the end of this season, having called the NFL on this crap yellow rag tossing assault on our games, that it is absolutely clear to everyone that the Seattle Seahawks are finally acknowledged as being one of the best in the game. As for those that are proven to be wrong, please do message me your address so i can mail you, your salt & pepper kit to go with your serving of crow.
Since the start of the season I've defended our Offenses inability to produce yards and points, as being directly linked to way too many highly questionable calls and penalties being levied against them by the officials, and always they seem to find our players deciding to commit these offenses just when we completed a meaningful play that might bring us another 1st and 10, or might put us in a position to score, worse yet even, we do sneak by them and score, only to have them toss a flag as an after thought and negate even that.
Then they fail to account for our opponents, who, almost everyone of them have traditionally, game after game, drawn many more penalties than the Seahawks do, and suddenly they have managed to clean their play over the course of the week prior while preparing to play the Seahawks, just so that while playing us, they magically manage to draw almost no penalties at all, and the ones they do draw are at times where they don't have any real affect on their 1st and 10 conversions or scoring opportunities.
When its out there in front of us week after week and a number of folks we respect, and that are considered by most of us to be in the know of the sport, are coming out publically and telling us the truth of the matter, do some folks continue to bash our offensive line, blame all their failures on their poor play instead of what is black and white in front of their eyes is beyond me.
Go back and watch the games we have played this year and the penalties that have been called against us, and when they are called. Also consider that after the fact, when challenged penalty by penalty the NFL has confirmed many of them were not penalties that warranted being called, or simply were not penalties at all, and confirmed that penalties that should have been called on our opponents that were not, were indeed penalties that should have been called, with little more than an apology, oops sorry, I guess we cost you that win didn't we? Oh well nothing that we can do about it now, we'll try to better next time, but they haven't it just keeps coming our way,
Remove all the crap calls levied against our Offense alone and try to be objective for just a moment, then you can go back to bashing our Offense again, and ask yourself how many times we would have converted and how many times we would have found ourselves in field goal or scoring range and how many games we would have easily won had both our offense and defense not been plagued with the onslaught of penalties being levied against us this year, I wouldn't hesitate to say every damn one of them.
I don't know why this happening, maybe Sherman is right, we are too good and they have to help the other teams out, or maybe the Seahawks have unified and taken a stand and need to be punished for having done so, because the NFL thinks that might be why their ratings are down this year. Sooner or later the truth will be found,.
So from me to you, I think we have a fantastic Offensive line, so damn fantastic that the NFL has found it necessary to do everything they can to stop us from winning, and doing everything they can to help our opponents with their officiating to try and beat us. Had it not been for all of this crap penalty calling, I think our Offense would currently be rated as one of the top in the NFL.
Our Defense is, in spite of the officiating, and I applaud them for that, It's not easy walking out on to that field game and game, knowing ahead of time that unless you manage to beat the officials and your opponents you are not likely going to walk off that field a winner at the end of the game.
Just my take on things as shared by many others, especially as more and more notables are coming out and speaking the truth, damn the torpedoes lol. I sure hope the NFL gets it, the jig is up, they have been called on their crap and need to clean it up before it really comes full turn and kicks them in the wallet where they really feel it. I wonder if they have stopped to consider that the reason viewership is down is because people want to see a competitive football game with fair officiating and have gotten sick and tired of watching them try and manipulate the outcome with their officials.
If they don't clean it up they will continue to lose viewers and fans in general.
I love the Seattle Seahawks, and believe that the thing that separates them from a lot of the other teams out there, is that they demand honesty and integrity from their players and from their coaches, and they get it. The also get it from their 12, who need to support them in their times of troubles as much as we do when they are riding high and on their way to another Super Bowl title. I still believe.
I know I'm a wordy SOB, seems like you have to be if you want to get through some of the really thick skulls out there, even then, wordy or not, its a pretty tough uphill climb. Like my dad used to say, "you can fix a lot of things in life, but the one thing you'll never fix, is stupid". I don't think I ever fully accepted that truth, because I still keep trying.
Go Hawks !
Did anyone listen to Richard Sherman in the Thursday Press Conference? The guy is risking his ass telling the truth to everyone by way of possible fines or other disciplines from the NFL head office should they elect to try and suppress him.
Like Sherman said when asked by reporters about how concerned he was about retribution from higher ups as a result, he answered them "the truth is the truth, it is what is, this is supposed to be reality TV, and I must be good for ratings" maybe that's why no heat from on high.
For so many reasons I respect Richard Sherman, and some of the others out there who have risked having the heat brought down on them for speaking what they believe to be the truth,. I've been shooting my mouth off on this matter, since the first week of the season, and a lot of folks have written me off as a naïve Sunshine and Lollipops poster, wherein I excuse everything that suggest that Seahawks are not playing at their best, which is far from the truth.
I'll be the first to tell it like I see it, and have and have been ridiculed at times as a result, that's ok, I'm not easily swayed in my opinions and takes on things, but I will readily admit when I'm wrong or mistaken. I'm not saying that the Seahawk offense is without areas that need improvement, I am saying that if you were able to wave a magic wand and retract all of the unwarranted and out and out crap calls against the Seahawk offense alone, folks would have an entirely different take on them.
Why so many are willing to view all the penalties as justified and conclude that the Offenses failed efforts to convert and score, is due to their belief instead, that our offensive players are all a bunch of no talent bums, that can't score to save their souls. I beg to doubt.
I'll also check my know it all, can't ever be mistaken, all year campaign to paint the Seahawk offense as a bunch of rag tag wannabe losers that can't play at college level players, and open my mind and eyes up to some obvious truths, and admit I was wrong, like a number of posters have, and continue to do.
Some folks are so repulsed by the idea of having to eat a little crow, that goes along with admitting they are wrong, that they won't relent until the truth is so clear that even Helen Keller can see it. I truly hope that by the end of this season, having called the NFL on this crap yellow rag tossing assault on our games, that it is absolutely clear to everyone that the Seattle Seahawks are finally acknowledged as being one of the best in the game. As for those that are proven to be wrong, please do message me your address so i can mail you, your salt & pepper kit to go with your serving of crow.
Since the start of the season I've defended our Offenses inability to produce yards and points, as being directly linked to way too many highly questionable calls and penalties being levied against them by the officials, and always they seem to find our players deciding to commit these offenses just when we completed a meaningful play that might bring us another 1st and 10, or might put us in a position to score, worse yet even, we do sneak by them and score, only to have them toss a flag as an after thought and negate even that.
Then they fail to account for our opponents, who, almost everyone of them have traditionally, game after game, drawn many more penalties than the Seahawks do, and suddenly they have managed to clean their play over the course of the week prior while preparing to play the Seahawks, just so that while playing us, they magically manage to draw almost no penalties at all, and the ones they do draw are at times where they don't have any real affect on their 1st and 10 conversions or scoring opportunities.
When its out there in front of us week after week and a number of folks we respect, and that are considered by most of us to be in the know of the sport, are coming out publically and telling us the truth of the matter, do some folks continue to bash our offensive line, blame all their failures on their poor play instead of what is black and white in front of their eyes is beyond me.
Go back and watch the games we have played this year and the penalties that have been called against us, and when they are called. Also consider that after the fact, when challenged penalty by penalty the NFL has confirmed many of them were not penalties that warranted being called, or simply were not penalties at all, and confirmed that penalties that should have been called on our opponents that were not, were indeed penalties that should have been called, with little more than an apology, oops sorry, I guess we cost you that win didn't we? Oh well nothing that we can do about it now, we'll try to better next time, but they haven't it just keeps coming our way,
Remove all the crap calls levied against our Offense alone and try to be objective for just a moment, then you can go back to bashing our Offense again, and ask yourself how many times we would have converted and how many times we would have found ourselves in field goal or scoring range and how many games we would have easily won had both our offense and defense not been plagued with the onslaught of penalties being levied against us this year, I wouldn't hesitate to say every damn one of them.
I don't know why this happening, maybe Sherman is right, we are too good and they have to help the other teams out, or maybe the Seahawks have unified and taken a stand and need to be punished for having done so, because the NFL thinks that might be why their ratings are down this year. Sooner or later the truth will be found,.
So from me to you, I think we have a fantastic Offensive line, so damn fantastic that the NFL has found it necessary to do everything they can to stop us from winning, and doing everything they can to help our opponents with their officiating to try and beat us. Had it not been for all of this crap penalty calling, I think our Offense would currently be rated as one of the top in the NFL.
Our Defense is, in spite of the officiating, and I applaud them for that, It's not easy walking out on to that field game and game, knowing ahead of time that unless you manage to beat the officials and your opponents you are not likely going to walk off that field a winner at the end of the game.
Just my take on things as shared by many others, especially as more and more notables are coming out and speaking the truth, damn the torpedoes lol. I sure hope the NFL gets it, the jig is up, they have been called on their crap and need to clean it up before it really comes full turn and kicks them in the wallet where they really feel it. I wonder if they have stopped to consider that the reason viewership is down is because people want to see a competitive football game with fair officiating and have gotten sick and tired of watching them try and manipulate the outcome with their officials.
If they don't clean it up they will continue to lose viewers and fans in general.
I love the Seattle Seahawks, and believe that the thing that separates them from a lot of the other teams out there, is that they demand honesty and integrity from their players and from their coaches, and they get it. The also get it from their 12, who need to support them in their times of troubles as much as we do when they are riding high and on their way to another Super Bowl title. I still believe.
I know I'm a wordy SOB, seems like you have to be if you want to get through some of the really thick skulls out there, even then, wordy or not, its a pretty tough uphill climb. Like my dad used to say, "you can fix a lot of things in life, but the one thing you'll never fix, is stupid". I don't think I ever fully accepted that truth, because I still keep trying.
Go Hawks !
