kearly":3cheuhmi said:
It definitely felt like Seattle got away from the run in the 3rd quarter, which coincided with Seattle having a few difficult drives all of a sudden. There was a 1st and goal from the nine where I was literally screaming "RUN THE FREAKING BALL" at the TV. Seattle had two ineffective passes, and one nice run down to the two yard line. They ended up kicking a FG.
Yes, it did feel like Seattle passed too much in this game, but that's mostly because Lynch was so unstoppable, and because Green Bay's secondary played very well I thought. Had it been an ordinary game for Lynch I would be just fine, if not encouraged, by the willingness to pass. The one thing that disappointed me is that this new offense with Harvin seems to have sacrficed the deep ball. I expect Wilson's YPA to drop quite a bit this season until the figure out how to get the 50 yard pass play back in the offense.
On the 3rd quarter goal-line series (I think after Maxwell's INT), I thought Seattle actually had a good plan on the second play - where Russell ended up throwing it out of bounds. It was a double read option, where they ultimately were playing of Shields (as far as I could see.) If Shields comes back to Russell, it's an easy throw to, I think, Kearse. If he doesn't, Russell runs in for the score.
Unfortunately, Matthews, who was initially fooled, made up ground on Russell in a hurry, and Wilson had to get rid of it because he couldn't turn the corner without taking a big loss. So I thought Seattle had a good plan for it, but it was one of those tip your cap moments. So it was more of a 1 pass, 1 run, 1 either, which is about as balanced as you can get.
They should have run first and thrown third, but I get that Bevell probably thought Green Bay would expect that. (Still should have done it, but meh.)
