Woolen - Team Dinner

[H4WKSF4N]

Team needs to expense NFC West Championship celebration to Woolens card.

 

[MontanaHawk05]

And then cut his ass

 

[CsrolinaHawker]

Better have his best game in the bowl

 

[TwistedHusky]

To be honest, (I cannot believe I am saying this), but kudos to Woolen.

After that screwup, he still played really solid football. Kept their passing game bottled up. Made good plays. Did not get burned.
If he had fallen apart after that screwup. If he had not kept his head - we lose that game.

We kept that passing attack from scoring an important TD and it came down to the wire.
It mattered.
He effed up BIG. But then, he pulled his head out of his *ss and kept working.
Big part of how we won this. He might have been our best CB today - even with that screwup.

 

[DeSeahawk]

Can I get a pizza on that card?

 

[Optimus25]

Can you imagine the vitriol had we lost?

I was losing my mind for forty minutes convinced we just lost a trip to a Super Bowl Championship (we’re kicking the pats ass) over a moron talking smack to a freaking opposing sideline after a 3rd down stop.

It was all the old stuff coming up that had been crushing us for a decade. Just stupid ass crap at the worst times.

 

[hox]

It would have been an 11 pt victory and less heart attack without that taunting BS

 

[slateman77]

To be honest, (I cannot believe I am saying this), but kudos to Woolen.

After that screwup, he still played really solid football. Kept their passing game bottled up. Made good plays. Did not get burned.
If he had fallen apart after that screwup. If he had not kept his head - we lose that game.

We kept that passing attack from scoring an important TD and it came down to the wire.
It mattered.
He effed up BIG. But then, he pulled his head out of his *ss and kept working.
Big part of how we won this. He might have been our best CB today - even with that screwup.

Umm..didn't he get burned for a TD right after his ridiculous taunting penalty..??

 

[Madrid Hawk]

Rest of Defense: M.O.B. mentality

Woollen: B. mentality

 

[TwistedHusky]

Umm..didn't he get burned for a TD right after his ridiculous taunting penalty..??

Yep.

AND Emannwori ripped him a new one.
But then he played great football for the rest of the game.

If he doesn't?
The Seahawks don't win.

They needed him to pull his head out of his *ss and he did that. Just in time. We fail to stop just one more drive and it would have screwed us.

 

[LeveeBreak]

To be honest, (I cannot believe I am saying this), but kudos to Woolen.

After that screwup, he still played really solid football. Kept their passing game bottled up. Made good plays. Did not get burned.
If he had fallen apart after that screwup. If he had not kept his head - we lose that game.

We kept that passing attack from scoring an important TD and it came down to the wire.
It mattered.
He effed up BIG. But then, he pulled his head out of his *ss and kept working.
Big part of how we won this. He might have been our best CB today - even with that screwup.

I’m with you on this. Woolen’s ball skills improved significantly the 2nd H of this year. He brings a unique skill set that’s highly valuable.

A mistake like tonight’s affords him a magnified insight on the importance of improving his maturity. Fortunately, maturity can be changed and dramatic events can expedite it.

Look at how MM handled Woolen in his presser. Many coaches would have thrown a player partially or fully under the bus…but MM gave him “love” and support. He knows Riq’s skills and what a teaching moment this is…but only if handled right.

I hope his maturity starts to match his skills.

 

[TwistedHusky]

I’m with you on this. Woolen’s ball skills improved significantly the 2nd H of this year. He brings a unique skill set that’s highly valuable.

A mistake like tonight’s affords him a magnified insight on the importance of improving his maturity. Fortunately, maturity can be changed and dramatic events can expedite it.

Look at how MM handled Woolen in his presser. Many coaches would have thrown a player partially or fully under the bus…but MM gave him “love” and support. He knows Riq’s skills and what a teaching moment this is…but only if handled right.

I hope his maturity starts to match his skills.

IF he hasn't learned now, he won't. And honestly, part of the reason that mistake turned into a TD is on the coaching staff. They left Woolen on an island RIGHT AFTER everyone in that stadium know that Stafford would be going after Woolen. When there is an emotional play, and a player makes a big mistake, the book says you target that player. Stafford did that very thing next. The staff should have known this and made sure he got some help, at least for the immediate next snap...

But, it was disappointing that Woolen didn't commit another penalty. As SOON as he was burned, he should have reached out and held Puka. That would have kept Puka from scoring there and we could decompress and have our defense buckle back down. But Riq doesn't hold, he ends up turned around and then 4-5 yds behind Puka. Guaranteed touchdown. Woolen should have had safety help.

We recovered but there are lessons to learn here. And frankly, Woolen isn't the only one at fault giving that TD up.

 

[LeveeBreak]

IF he hasn't learned now, he won't.

Honestly, I thought I was gonna have an aneurysm after that series of events. I was PISSED at Riq and was thinking the same. But it's an emotional response to a frustrating play that oversimplifies how people learn and change. Given more time to reflect on Riq over the season and see how MM responded in the presser, I'm hopeful this might be the catalyst for Riq to accelerate his maturation. MM is a master in leadership and psychological positioning and understands emotional intelligence is malleable in a way that cognitive ability is not.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that Riq will necessarily mature or that the Seahawks will ultimately retain him. Market dynamics alone may make his departure inevitable. However, if MM and JS believe he has genuinely bought into the program, this moment creates a credible opportunity for MM to redirect and shape Riq’s behavior in a constructive way.

 

[RiverDog]

To be honest, (I cannot believe I am saying this), but kudos to Woolen.

After that screwup, he still played really solid football. Kept their passing game bottled up. Made good plays. Did not get burned.
If he had fallen apart after that screwup. If he had not kept his head - we lose that game.

We kept that passing attack from scoring an important TD and it came down to the wire.
It mattered.
He effed up BIG. But then, he pulled his head out of his *ss and kept working.
Big part of how we won this. He might have been our best CB today - even with that screwup.

BS! On the play immediately following the penalty, Stafford and Nacua burned Woolen for a 34-yard TD pass.

 

[LeveeBreak]

BS! On the play immediately following the penalty, Stafford and Nacua burned Woolen for a 34-yard TD pass.

He acknowledged that. His reference was to his performance the rest of the game after that unfortunace series of events, which he's 100% correct about.

 

[CPHawk]

The issue I have, is the rams did the same stuff and more. Yet they got zero flags for it