vin.couve12
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It'll be a Cerberus, but I bet that Lacey has the most touches throughout the year.
Yeah....Cerberus sounds good.
Yeah....Cerberus sounds good.
SpokaneHawks":1vy6c1h3 said:Has running back by committee ever actually worked?
Hasselbeck":32gx5qm3 said:Rawls unless Lacy mistakes him for china food.
pmedic920":3btnj1sc said:Starter?
Does that mean who is in the game on the first offensive play?
I think we will end up going with a "committee".
Very "situational" if you will.
To be honest, I'm good with that and HOPE that our "stable" is as well.
That's what it sounds/feels like when I go to the bathroom after eating my too hot ghost peppers :shock:vin.couve12":240yku9p said:Earth Wind and Fire :lol:
Mr. Pope is a Colt...pacific101":nbe99k94 said:I'm really excited by all the Running Backs that we have to work with this season. It wouldn't surprise most of you who listened to my rants about Troymaine Pope last year, to learn that once again, I've gone way out on a limb again with this kid, and thus far, have cast the only vote for him to date. I can't be the only one that saw that there was something really special about this kid coming in to Seattle last year.
We constantly hear the Seahawk coaches preach competition, promising each player on the team, that they all have an equal and legitimate chance to compete for, and possibly win their position on the field , leaving no player safe and able to rest on their laurels.
Troymaine came into Seattle and competed with his peers for the position of running back in 2016, and by the end of the preseason, Pope had proven to everyone, that he was far and away their best running back option, with no one else achieving the same stats, not even remotely close.
Troymaine Pope was on fire throughout the preseason. He was a major game changer for us in our final preseason game against Dallas, He was given the same promise that every other player that comes into Seattle, is given, compete for your position and prove to us that you are better than the rest and you'll get the spot. Troymaine did all that and more, and in response the Seahawks, cut him from their roster, and was sent off to the Jets.
I'm sure Troymaine, must have felt like someone just kicked him in the gut, when he learned that in spite of everything he had accomplished, that he'd been cut. He was so high on the prospects of being a Seahawk, having legitimately proven to everyone that he was the better man for the position.
The Seattle Seahawks hierarchy got an ear full from their fans, who were visibly angry and dismayed by their decision to cut a player who had met and exceeded their challenges and expectations of him. I'm sure they caught hell even from many of their own players, who reasonably so, must have began to question and doubt, the authenticity of the whole speel about being able to come into Seattle and compete for any position on the field, and trust that if you did succeed in out performing other players competing for your position, that at the end of the day the position would be granted to you.
The Seahawks did reckon eventually with Troymaine, and brought him back to Seattle, although by then, he had sustained a high ankle sprain injury, He was rushed back out on the field, because of the long list of injuries all the others RB's were battling and ended up only further aggravating the high ankle sprain.
Desperate not to see his dreams crushed once again, Troymaine subjected himself to what was thought to be a rapid injury mending process, that if successful would allow him a small chance of being able to play for the Seahawks when they really needed to establish a meaningful running game.
Everyone knows the outcome, the attempted rapid recovery method didn't work out well, and in fact resulted in an even worse high ankle sprain situation, which led to his being placed on IR and demoted to the practice squad.
I am glad that Seattle did keep him in the mix by giving him a place on the practice squad. I'm hoping that now healed up , that Troymaine will once again, prove to the Seahawks and to their fans, that his rightful place as the lead running back for the Seahawks. If after proving himself to them once again and the Seahawks once again deny him his place in the lineup, I will at very least call BS on the whole competition philosophy mantra being preached to all the other players coming into Seattle, and giving it their all for a chance to play in the big show.
It's a long shot I know, but I also remember that Troymaine Pope has always been doubted and has always proved his critics wrong and I believe he will again this time around, I only hope that the Hawks keep their word this time around if he does. Long live The Pope!