I thought it was pretty obvious that our running game was finally back again. Lacey, Rawls, and McKissick we’re all three able to find the gap’s that they’ve been looking for since 2014 in the O-line, and that have been nonexistent all the while. What baffles the hell out of me, is why, when we knew that the running game was the formula that beat the Redskins, the Cowboys proved that the week before with only 150 yards passing, and then ran, ran, ran the rest of the game and easily beat the Redskins, did the Seahawks abandon the run game, a battle that the Redskins were clearly loosing, and instead opted to go almost exclusively to the only hope the Redskins had to defeat us, our passing game?
The rest is history. I’m not dismissing the failures of Walsh’s 3 missed field goal attempts, or our Defenses failure to hold the score when they needed to, I cut them lots of slack because of Earl and Sheldon’s absences. We all know how much Earl’s absence effects the defenses production, and now we also know how much of an impact Sheldon has as well, if we didn’t already. I was so hoping Sheldon might make it back by game time, thinking he might compensate enough for Earl to get us thru this one.
I really blame Darrell for abandoning the run game, when it was clearly working for us, and sending in plays with no RB in the back field to even try to keep the Redskins honest, and open up the passing game for us. I also, had to ask myself where Pete was/is with all of it. Pete clearly loves the run game and has been trying desperately to restore it to our offenses strategy, and when he finally succeeded in restoring it he stands by and let’s Darrell abandon it, knowing full well it was the key to our beating the Redskins.
Maybe they know something we all don’t, maybe Rawls was injured too and they didn’t want to tell everyone, I didn’t see any evidence of it, he was on fire, kicking arses and taking names. All I have to say at the end of this one, is that Darrell and Pete got some splaining to do to all of us, and most importantly to their team who got their butts handed to them unnecessarily in my humble opinion.
I’m almost always the first to jump out there in defense of Bevell and Pete, but not this time, they need to take a really hard look at what happen here, and I hate to say it, but Pete may have to make some really tough decisions if he wants to spend the rest of his working years as the head coach of the Seahawks.
If Darrell is allowed to call a few more games like he did this one, the home office is going to insist that something or someone changes to correct things and not see any repeats of what they saw this Sunday. We need to learn from this one, make adjustments and put it behind us, can’t take it back. We have another game this Thursday night, I sure hope the real Seahawks show up to play this one.
