Grahamhawker
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fenderbender123":34yncmfo said:Are you in? I really like our chances.
First off. Do you think Russ is going to allow a losing season? Hell no. He doesn't want one on the stat sheet. So we already know for a fact that this team will win out the season. And if they do that, odds are they make the playoffs.
From there, the defense starts to click, and so does the offensive line. The ghost of Vince Lombardi visits each offensive lineman during their dreams, and coaches them up like nobody else could eve do. I'm pretty sure this will happen.
Not only that, but we have Pete Carroll. He knows what he's doing. Him and Russ are just the best together. They got this. I trust Paul Allen's trust in him.
pittpnthrs":129izpu0 said:4-8 and people are talking playoffs and the Super Bowl. LOLOL. This place never disappoints.
RiverDog":39gecs5k said:I'm not sure how they calculate the odds, but according to this, we have a 3% chance of making the playoffs, about the same as it was before our win last week vs. the Niners:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... cture.html
There's only two teams in the NFC, the Bears and the Lions, that have worse odds than we do. And since we have both of those teams on our remaining schedule, beating them isn't going to help us leap frog the teams ahead of us. We're going to need help...a lot of help.
We've already lost to the Vikings and Saints, so they both own tiebreakers, plus 2 of our 4 wins are against AFC teams with a 3rd AFC team, the Texans, left on our slate.
hawkfan68":2a3ip15z said:Good points. That WFT loss was brutal. Had they won that game, their chances look much better. At it sits the Seahawks only win tiebreakers against the 49ers in the NFC. They have the 2nd worst conference record at 2-6.
SoulfishHawk":6stp71sq said:Nah, no playoffs this year. But they can still finish strong and ruin some other team's dreams.
SoulfishHawk":1g4vaxa7 said:To each his/her own. I want them to finish strong. And no, I'm not satisfied at all. But they are still fighting, so I hope to see a lot more of it to finish the season. Shoot, they're not making playoffs. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the rest of the season. And playing spoiler, that's going to feel strange being on the other side of that.
Now come on. Let's be realistic. Penny is not Sweetness. He's not Jim Brown. He's not Barry Sanders. Not Eric Dickerson. Perhaps Curtis Martin. OK, peak Chris Warren.Grahamhawker":m2od8fji said:Really, Penny is the key to the whole resurgence. He'll have a dream where Walter Payton, Billy Sims and Jim Brown all come to him and convince him to eat Earl Campbell's hot-link sausages 3x a day. After that he averages 200 yards and 2 TDs (per game...not per season or per career).
RiverDog":3lus0lhg said:I'm not sure how they calculate the odds, but according to this, we have a 3% chance of making the playoffs, about the same as it was before our win last week vs. the Niners:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... cture.html
There's only two teams in the NFC, the Bears and the Lions, that have worse odds than we do. And since we have both of those teams on our remaining schedule, beating them isn't going to help us leap frog the teams ahead of us. We're going to need help...a lot of help.
We've already lost to the Vikings and Saints, so they both own tiebreakers, plus 2 of our 4 wins are against AFC teams with a 3rd AFC team, the Texans, left on our slate.
LTH":13olojuc said:RiverDog":13olojuc said:I'm not sure how they calculate the odds, but according to this, we have a 3% chance of making the playoffs, about the same as it was before our win last week vs. the Niners:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... cture.html
There's only two teams in the NFC, the Bears and the Lions, that have worse odds than we do. And since we have both of those teams on our remaining schedule, beating them isn't going to help us leap frog the teams ahead of us. We're going to need help...a lot of help.
We've already lost to the Vikings and Saints, so they both own tiebreakers, plus 2 of our 4 wins are against AFC teams with a 3rd AFC team, the Texans, left on our slate.
For me If they can somehow manage to win out, which to you guys seems unrealistic, i understand that but it's not like the Hawks haven't done it before and it's not like Russ isn't capable of doing it and it's not like Carroll isn't capable of doing it.
Russ is starting to warm up, the D is improving every week. we know there is no quit in this team just listen to the leadership in the locker room guys like Lockett and Wagner.
like you said Hawks have a 3 % chance of successthey are two out... losing tie breakers to the Saints, the Vikings and WFT winning a tie breaker with the Niners... wouldn't that be fun!!! win a tie breaker against the niners who have LA the last game of the season... and the drama continues LOL. I love it!!
LTH
olyfan63":36ozynfa said:Now come on. Let's be realistic. Penny is not Sweetness. He's not Jim Brown. He's not Barry Sanders. Not Eric Dickerson.Grahamhawker":36ozynfa said:Really, Penny is the key to the whole resurgence. He'll have a dream where Walter Payton, Billy Sims and Jim Brown all come to him and convince him to eat Earl Campbell's hot-link sausages 3x a day. After that he averages 200 yards and 2 TDs (per game...not per season or per career).