Wow hatchet job on Seattle

[gowazzu02]

Chadiha???? nope,,, at another hater to the list.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000 ... repeat-bid

 

[nwgamer]

Schein brings up some decent points though. The schedule is brutal for us and things will be difficult. Not unsurmountable but definitely difficult.

 

[Hasselbeck]

That's funny, I think we will be 3-0 at the bye.

*shrug*

 

[SalishHawkFan]

The last seven games are brutal. The first nine are against 2 tough opponents on the road and 7 teams that suck defensively. We should shoot out the gates the first half of the season and then be in good shape going into that 7 game stretch at the end.

 

[twisted_steel2]

I stopped reading at "And while I respect Seattle's defense -- especially when the unit is playing at home, in front of the rabid inhabitants of CenturyLink Field -- Rodgers is unstoppable." :roll:


Yea, the schedule has some 'interesting' challenges, but this early you really can't tell how hard or easy it is. Some teams will fall off, some will be stronger than expected. unno:

 

[Jac]

With the way this team operates, all the press this is getting is just another chip on their shoulder. Ironically, this could even help their chances at a repeat.

 

[gowazzu02]

I agree on the schedule, although last year at this time, roadies to Houston, NYG and ATL were going to be brutal too.....

But the fact he still doesn't give the LOB the respect they deserve is comical... they can' tstop the great aaron rodgers? Ahh how many points did ARodg put up when RW beat him his third ever start?

Did he not see what the D did to the statistaclly best O ever? on a Neutral field?

 

[Hasselbeck]

It's Adam Schein .. dude is a clown. He's the same guy that had a Texans-Falcons Super Bowl prediction last year.

 

[Laloosh]

I think it's fair to say we'll see some surprises every season (good and bad).

 

[Seahawks1983]

Aaron Rodgers is unstoppable?

Since when?

 

[SalishHawkFan]

Aaron Rodgers is unstoppable?

Since when?

Since we already stopped the unstoppable Peyton Manning.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

NO chance against the best offense in history.......

 

[WilsonMVP]

I stopped reading at "And while I respect Seattle's defense -- especially when the unit is playing at home, in front of the rabid inhabitants of CenturyLink Field -- Rodgers is unstoppable." :roll:


Yea, the schedule has some 'interesting' challenges, but this early you really can't tell how hard or easy it is. Some teams will fall off, some will be stronger than expected. unno:

lol ya Rodgers was so unstoppable the last time he came here that he got sacked 8 times in the first half and 9 times total. He only had 223 yards with 0TD as well and their late TD was on a bogus call.

 

[kidhawk]

I'm not sure how that article is a hatchet job. It merely is pointing out the obstacles we need to overcome to repeat. It's easy to say a team won't repeat. It doesn't happen all that often. I believe we will overcome more of those obstacles than we will stumble on, but that doesn't make it a hatchet job to write about the possibility of our failure, I just don't have to agree

 

[AbsolutNET]

I think getting through a brutal stretch to end last season is the reason we went on to win the super bowl. We were conditioned against some very tough teams that made the playoff's easier (for lack of a better word). Hopefully this year will be the same. Iron sharpens iron...

 

[ZagHawk]

All his reasons seem legitimate to me. I think the only thing I had issues with was seeing Aaron Rodgers as unstoppable in Century Link. I seemed to remember him getting sacked 8 times in a half, kind of hard to be unstoppable when you're laying on your back.

That aside, the NFC West is tough as hell. The AFC West is tough as well. They happen to be playing each other this season. The only team on the Seahawks schedule I can comfortably put a "W" next to provided the Hawks don't choke or suffer major injuries is the Raiders. Meanwhile you could look at a team like the Patriots' schedule, look at their division alone and say that's an easy 5-6 Ws. I'm not discredit the Hawks, I'm acknowledging how good (or potentially good) our competition is in the schedule.

The last point is the most valid, repeating is very difficult. The odds are against you. It took the Hawks over 30 years to win it's first Super Bowl Title, and anyone not thinking they will repeat is automatically a hater?

I love our team, they have a chance to repeat, but the road is definitely not an easy one.

 

[AROS]

All his reasons seem legitimate to me. I think the only thing I had issues with was seeing Aaron Rodgers as unstoppable in Century Link. I seemed to remember him getting sacked 8 times in a half, kind of hard to be unstoppable when you're laying on your back.

BAM!

 

[Hawks46]

I think some of his reasons are pretty valid. I don't think anyone here is sleeping on AZ, and we probably have more respect for the Rams than most teams and fan bases do. That said, it's almost an annual rite of passage that a few "analysts" pick the AZ Cards to win the NFCW and the Rams to be the NFC darkhose to make the playoffs. Neither happen with regularity. Yes, AZ beat us at home, but they've also lost 12 straight to the Niners. The NFCW is going to be so brutal this year that no team can afford to be swept by another team. 4-2 likely takes the division, and a division winnner with a divisional record of 3-3 wouldn't surprise me.

Schein talks about facing Manning, Rivers and Rodgers. What bothers me about all of his analysis is that he doesn't give the Seahawks really any credit, while crediting everything else around them. Elite QBs have stunk against us the last two years. We shut down elite passers, that is a statistical fact.

I also love how the line "well the Seahawks aren't the same team away from home, so they're going to lose" isn't put to bed yet after a 6-2 road record last year. Ironically, Schein goes on to say we're playing a Carolina team that went 7-1 at home last year. Uhhh, did you forget who hung that 1 loss on them ?

Trust me, that end of the schedule is going to be brutal, but evidently the SB didn't teach anyone anything. We get through that, and our division, and the playoffs and the AFC contender won't seem like very much.

 

[kearly]

I think the schedule is favorable to us. Only game I look at and think "probably a loss" is @SF, and that's only because the NFL shafted us with another crucial game on the road on Thursday Night.

If Harvin stays healthy, our defense avoids a letdown, and Seattle dodges an officiating hachet job here and there (Indy last year), if all those things happen I think 19-0 could be in play.

 

[Hawknballs]

what is a hacket job?