nash72":fqu6ixgi said:
pacific101":fqu6ixgi said:
We have incredible talent and experience on our Oline, every single one of them are talented professionals, some with more seasoning than others, but you would be hard fought to assemble anything better. They are getting better and better with each passing week this year, and as we start coming down to the finishing line, you will an offensive line that will be really hard to stop, if not impossible.
Your post lost all relevance as soon as this was typed. The Seahawks have one of the worst offensive lines, if not THE, in the entire league. How can anybody say that line has incredible talent and experience? What a mind boggling statement. Better and better with each passing week? They just got absolutely annihilated by the Cardinals.
I'm always open to criticisms and certainly respect the fact that not everyone is going to see things the way I do. Consider for a moment how many thousands of kids have competed on football fields across this country year after year, and how elite a player you have to be at your given position to find your way on to the starting roster of an NFL teams offensive roster. Consider again the success that the Seahawk scouts have had in bringing these talented standouts into our team. They most certainly are some of the most talented professional players on the field today.
I think if you ignore the fact that in Arizona, from the onset it was clear to anyone watching the game, that the Seahawks were going to be fighting an uphill battle with the officials. Remember back when the Seahawks successfully stopped a third and two yard conversion, and the lead referee ran up, ignoring the placement of the ball by one of his officials and signalled a first down anyway? It was retracted thereafter when he realized that it was not nearly close enough to a first down to pull that call off.
What it did do, in the room of people I was watching the game with, was signal to all of us, who were Seahawk fans, that if we were going to walk off the field winners that night, we were going to have to not only whip Arizona's ass, but we were going to have to whip the Referee's asses too. They were determined to teach the Seahawks a lesson about not criticizing their officiating publicly like we had following the Falcon game.
So for the rest of the game they dished out what might possibly be one of the highest number of offensive holding calls I can remember ever seeing issued against our Oline, and it seemed that they always came at the point where we were trying to convert on 3rd downs, pinning us down with impossible yardage situations.
So I guess if you want to totally ignore the obvious and assess Russell and his Oline's performance as though all of that monkey business was completely legit and deserved, then you still have to make on hell of a case for the Seahawks offensive line, who battled back through everything that Arizona could throw at them, and everything they inflicted on themselves penalty wise if that is the way you want to see, and very nearly defeated the Arizona Cardinal's at home with arguably one of the top defenses in the NFL, and did in fact take them to a draw.
The outcome of that game was not a testament to the Arizona Cardinal's who had the officials doing everything in their power to hand the game, and even with that they failed. It is a testament to the Seahawks, undeniably greatest defensive line in the NFL today, and like it or not, and roll the stats and numbers all you want, still one crazy great offensive line that stuck together against nearly impossible odds and never gave up, never stopped believing in themselves, not for one second and walked out of that stadium undefeated that night.
That is what a draw is, UNDFEATED. The officials are the ones that really got beat that night, in spite of their best efforts, they were unable to deliver a defeat to the Seahawks. In my book that makes Russell Wilson and this phenomenal assembly of talent on both sides of the ball, perhaps one of the best teams in the NFL today, and I believe by seasons end, there won't be too many folks thinking I've been drinking flavored koolaid and don't know what I'm talking about, when I make these seemingly crazy assertions about these wonderfully talented and dedicated group of men.