Anyone think we threw the ball a little too much?

[theincrediblesok]

66 total plays

29 passing (including sack)
37 rushing

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

66 total plays

29 passing (including sack)
37 rushing

I'm talking baseline against somebody good on the road. From there if it's a walkover I expect 70-75 plays total. Basically we looked half speed last night.

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

66 total plays

29 passing (including sack)
37 rushing

I'm talking baseline against somebody good on the road. From there if it's a walkover I expect 70-75 plays total. Basically we looked half speed last night.

 

[theincrediblesok]

66 total plays

29 passing (including sack)
37 rushing

I'm talking baseline against somebody good on the road. From there if it's a walkover I expect 70-75 plays total. Basically we looked half speed last night.

That was just a stat against the Packers pointing to the OP that we did more running plays than passing plays, we must of type out the reply at the same time as i didn't notice before you had stated about running 60 plays a game. Your right though about the half speed, there was some miss opportunities but they will fine tune that.

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

66 total plays

29 passing (including sack)
37 rushing

I'm talking baseline against somebody good on the road. From there if it's a walkover I expect 70-75 plays total. Basically we looked half speed last night.

That was just a stat against the Packers pointing to the OP that we did more running plays than passing plays, we must of type out the reply at the same time as i didn't notice before you had stated about running 60 plays a game. Your right though about the half speed, there was some miss opportunities but they will fine tune that.

Yes, because I've noticed since Wilson arrived we seem to run 50-55 plays a game. I believe we speed it up 5-10 plays because Pete is letting Wilson loose because he finally has his security blanket (Harvin).

 

[Seahawk Sailor]

Yes, because I've noticed since Wilson arrived we seem to run 50-55 plays a game. I believe we speed it up 5-10 plays because Pete is letting Wilson loose because he finally has his security blanket (Harvin).

A lot of the reason why we've only run 50-55 plays a game stems from the fact that we weren't very good on third down the past couple of years. It's been a liability. We start converting a few more third downs and the number of plays we run in a game will skyrocket.

 

[Blitzhawk]

It definitely felt like Seattle got away from the run in the 3rd quarter, which coincided with Seattle having a few difficult drives all of a sudden. There was a 1st and goal from the nine where I was literally screaming "RUN THE FREAKING BALL" at the TV. Seattle had two ineffective passes, and one nice run down to the two yard line. They ended up kicking a FG.

Yes, it did feel like Seattle passed too much in this game, but that's mostly because Lynch was so unstoppable, and because Green Bay's secondary played very well I thought. Had it been an ordinary game for Lynch I would be just fine, if not encouraged, by the willingness to pass. The one thing that disappointed me is that this new offense with Harvin seems to have sacrficed the deep ball. I expect Wilson's YPA to drop quite a bit this season until the figure out how to get the 50 yard pass play back in the offense.

LOL, I was doing the same exact thing. I felt like GB was literally incapable of stopping Lynch for less than 5 yds and we should just pound it in. That said, I really liked the diversity of play calling I felt we lacked quite often in the past from Bevell, especially the ingenius TD to Coleman. So, I guess ya gotta take the bad w/ the good as they say. I really gotta give Bevell credit for calling one the best games I seen as someone else said.

I also got the feeling they were trying to protect the rookie RT Britt w/ the quick passing game over taking the deep shots in this game so we will have to see what happens as he develops.

 

[Laloosh]

Bevell called the best game I have ever seen called by a Hawk O.C.

I was begging for Bevell to run #24 up the gut all of the 3rd quarter in .net chat. I agree with the overall play calling and the result but it just felt like he was playing to their strengths in the 3rd. They were soft in the middle but their LBs and Safeties were getting to the edge when anyone not named Percy was trying to go laterally.

 

[idahohawk]

No.

Now hear me out.

The first or maybe second drive? of the 2nd half. MArshawn ripped two straight 10 plus yard gains. Turbo comes in rips another 10 yarder. Then we throw 3 straight incompletions!

It was clear they couldn't stop the beast. He had over 100 yards but it could of been 150 plus..imo.

 

[chris98251]

I think the deep ball suffered because they were playing off a lot, also why the jet sweep and Lynch dominated. They didn't want to get burned with the deep ball and hoped to contain us in front of them. They just didn't expect 10 yd sweeps and 10 yard runs up the gut. When they bit hard Lockette and Coleman scored, but if you look at the Lockette play they still had a deep safety that Lockette juked to get in.

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

I think the deep ball suffered because they were playing off a lot, also why the jet sweep and Lynch dominated. They didn't want to get burned with the deep ball and hoped to contain us in front of them. They just didn't expect 10 yd sweeps and 10 yard runs up the gut. When they bit hard Lockette and Coleman scored, but if you look at the Lockette play they still had a deep safety that Lockette juked to get in.

They chose death by a thousand papercuts rather then the sword. Works for me.

 

[BlueTalon]

Bevell called the best game I have ever seen called by a Hawk O.C.

I dunno, that NFCCG against the Panthers was pretty awesome.

 

[gowazzu02]

No.

Now hear me out.

The first or maybe second drive? of the 2nd half. MArshawn ripped two straight 10 plus yard gains. Turbo comes in rips another 10 yarder. Then we throw 3 straight incompletions!

It was clear they couldn't stop the beast. He had over 100 yards but it could of been 150 plus..imo.

Fair enough other members were right there with me in the third......im not being critical, he called a great game. Im just of the mindset that when your averaging 7-10 yards running it right down heir throats you are doing them a favor by passing.......

Allow me a baseball reference, how a team gets second life when the skipper pulls the ace who was throwing 98 all day. The reliever is good but the other team had no prayer against te ace

 

[Sports Hernia]

Now hear me out.

The first or maybe second drive? of the 2nd half. MArshawn ripped two straight 10 plus yard gains. Turbo comes in rips another 10 yarder. Then we throw 3 straight incompletions!

It was clear they couldn't stop the beast. He had over 100 yards but it could of been 150 plus..imo.

Overall no, at certain times yes. Lynch was unstoppable, and there was a span where they didn't give it to him and we had to punt. Also a first and goal from the 9, I think we kicked a FG after some poor playcalling. That should have been handoff city to Lynch 3 times in a row if you must...... Just a little gripe, as Bevell will get into one of his brain fart ruts, but
Overall the play calling was good.

 

[XxXdragonXxX]

Bevell called the best game I have ever seen called by a Hawk O.C.

I dunno, that NFCCG against the Panthers was pretty awesome.

I remember the defensive game plan in that game being better than the offense. Putting a linebacker on Smith to bump him and then pass him off to the CB was pretty genius.

 

[bigDhawk]

Now hear me out.

The first or maybe second drive? of the 2nd half. MArshawn ripped two straight 10 plus yard gains. Turbo comes in rips another 10 yarder. Then we throw 3 straight incompletions!

It was clear they couldn't stop the beast. He had over 100 yards but it could of been 150 plus..imo.

191 total passing yards
207 total rushing yards

How much more balance do we want?

Yeah, maybe Beast could have had a buck fifty, but remember they are also trying to manage his workload and total carries to hopefully have him at peak performance come the post-season. I think that is reflected in the offensive balance we achieved. We had the game well in hand and there was no need to rack up a high carry total for Beast just because we could.