sutz":psm8xy3f said:
Bobblehead":psm8xy3f said:
I wasn't sure what to make of this play.. Several thoughts came to mind.
1, I'm glad he missed the helmet, he would have all in likely gotten a broken hand.
2, I'm happy he didn't get a penalty for taking a swing.
3, damn, he missed.
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Crap, for people to say that Earl was trying to punch the player is totally crazy, I'm not sure he wouldn't if it were legal but in this film clip what he was doing was classic Seahawk defense, knocking the ball loose anyway you can, and if you go back and watch game footage of our defensive players you will see them all doing it time and again. They punch at the ball directly, the go at it with chopping blows, uppercuts, helmet to the hands and yanking and pulling it loose, anything and everything goes so long as it's within the rules.
Earl is very good at what he does . It's been a little frustrating for all of our defensive players starting out this year, they have always been major game changers with our team and a lot of the numbers we have put up in our most successful seasons have come from the defense, either directly because of fumble recoveries and interceptions being run in for TDs, or indirectly by giving our offense the ball back because of the same, and them scoring as a result.
The teams all know what they face when they play the Legion of Boom, and in response have called plays that allow the least opportunities for turn overs, thus the reducing the number of turn overs or total lack of turnovers early on in the season.
Those teams have also learned they can't beat us by trying to play that conservative and have since started to loosen up in an effort to score against us, and Wallah we start getting our turn over rate numbers back up again.
The Legion of Boom is starting to look like the fine oiled defensive line that we all love to watch play. Sherman needs to be credited as well as Earl for that interception of that pass intended for Julio. Sherman got his hand on it and put it up in the air for grabs, had he not, it would have hit the ground and gone back to the Falcon's, instead of going into our Offenses hands and in for a score.
I'm glad to see the Legion turning the ball over again this year, we need their help to get back to a Super Bowl, as talented as our Offensive line is becoming, we can't make it without the Legion do that thing they do so well. Go Hawks!