One glaring stat to the disappointing season

The Seahawks were 1-6 when scoring 0, ZERO points in the third quarter. What were these guys doing in the locker room during halftime? How do you come out of halftime playing flat in the 3rd quarter? Did Pete all of a sudden tell Russ and the offense, “You guys are not allowed to score in 3rd quarter.”

Hmmm, maybe those were the quarters where we kicked off and the opponents did a 25-play, 15 minute drive on our defense, leaving little time for our offense. Then when our offense did get on the field, we had yet another 3rd and 4 failure, and thus a 3 and out, for yet another long opponent drive in the 3rd quarter.

I would guess the teams that walked the Hawks defense slowly backwards multiple times on long scoring drives in the 2nd half tended to be the teams that beat the Hawks. Rams twice, for example.

Not exactly a new criticism of Pete and his coordinators, that they're terrible at in game adjusting.

Pete's most successful adjustment is just waiting for Russell to pull games out of his ass in the 4th quarter for the better part of a decade.

Sgt. Largent":2z23p5hq said:

Not exactly a new criticism of Pete and his coordinators, that they're terrible at in game adjusting.

Pete's most successful adjustment is just waiting for Russell to pull games out of his ass in the 4th quarter for the better part of a decade.

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Agreed


It seems like the entire game is scripted for the 4th quarter and one of two things happens:

1) The game plays out as intended, as it's "I told you we just needed to limit big plays, keep running to open up our offense in the end"

or

2) The game does NOT play out as intended, "well we made some crucial mistakes early on, and we were right there with some small stuff to get it going, but it didn't happen. We just couldn't establish the run like we'd like".

The entire playbook game after game, season after season is a script that seems to not allow any adjustments because everything is going as planned (even if they can't get the run going for 3 quarters) and the only time they truly make an adjustment is if they suddenly go down 3 scores by half time and that's a recipe for disaster for just about any team.

I think the biggest disappointing stat was the consistent deficit in time of posession. Long drives chewing up the clock and wearing out the defense were hugely troublesome.

olyfan63":3ccke0mv said:

Hmmm, maybe those were the quarters where we kicked off and the opponents did a 25-play, 15 minute drive on our defense, leaving little time for our offense. Then when our offense did get on the field, we had yet another 3rd and 4 failure, and thus a 3 and out, for yet another long opponent drive in the 3rd quarter.

I would guess the teams that walked the Hawks defense slowly backwards multiple times on long scoring drives in the 2nd half tended to be the teams that beat the Hawks. Rams twice, for example.

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But we always elect to receive in 2nd half when we win toss and most teams also elect to receive in 1st half, so on average we should be scoring more in 3rd quarter than any other quarter given its the quarter we are most likely to start with ball