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Good post Seahawk Sailor.
I said something similar on page 2, that Seattle supposedly does not alter their game plan in the preseason, and that alone could explain everything.
The penalties were a major problem, but is that the OL's fault, or the officials? The officials called a tight game with several terrible on field calls, including two calls that were overturned on replay. I can't stress enough that the officiating was awful in this game, and that makes me give our OL the benefit of the doubt to a degree.
I'm at half time on DVR study. So far there is an Okung false start and a Sweezy late hit that were both clearly the right calls. Every other penalty against the OL was debatable at best. Lots of fringe holds that were called only because the officiating was ultra-trigger happy in this game. There was one terrible holding call against Sweezy (the 3rd penalty he picked up) where he was 100% clean but shoved the guy to the ground. When he saw the flag his reaction was pretty much "you shittin' me?"
Spin Doctor":cnu495p1 said:Here is something that I see glossed over in this conversation about Wilson's performance, and Bevell "dropping the ball". McCarthy likes to make game plans for every preseason game, especially this game. He saw it as a dress rehearsal for RG3 and Kaepernick. Seattle was running a very basic, vanilla scheme -- our playbook for that game looked like it was drawn up on a napkin. Greenbay on the other hand was throwing out everything and the kitchen sink on defense. Those delayed blitz's and contain schemes would have been easily countered in a real game with a draw, screen, or a quick toss over to a WR waiting on the sideline. The few times we did run a screen or a draw they went for huge gains against the Greenbay defense.
I said something similar on page 2, that Seattle supposedly does not alter their game plan in the preseason, and that alone could explain everything.
Coug_Hawk08":cnu495p1 said:Pete said specifically that GB threw blitzes that they did not plan for, and he was not concerned with the resulting sacks. I also recall him saying that game planning overall was very minimal during the week.
Either way, I don't know how we can say the O-line had a good game. There may have been good individual performances, or isolated play, but if we start 15 yards back, or 20 yards back on 1st down, we are not doing a good job. Made it really hard for all of the offensive play makers to be successful.
The penalties were a major problem, but is that the OL's fault, or the officials? The officials called a tight game with several terrible on field calls, including two calls that were overturned on replay. I can't stress enough that the officiating was awful in this game, and that makes me give our OL the benefit of the doubt to a degree.
RolandDeschain":cnu495p1 said:At least 2/3rds of the O-line penalties were legitimate ones. That is not good play for the line, regardless of how well they blocked.
I'm at half time on DVR study. So far there is an Okung false start and a Sweezy late hit that were both clearly the right calls. Every other penalty against the OL was debatable at best. Lots of fringe holds that were called only because the officiating was ultra-trigger happy in this game. There was one terrible holding call against Sweezy (the 3rd penalty he picked up) where he was 100% clean but shoved the guy to the ground. When he saw the flag his reaction was pretty much "you shittin' me?"