So is Dallas back in the saddle again?
Hard to say. They played about as well as they could today while my Hawks stunk up the joint.
The Dallas defense is definitely improved over last season. The Seahawks OC devised about as stupid a game plan as could have been thunk up.
Romo played very well he had no ints and Murray who is usually good for a fumble took care of the ball.
The Dallas DBs played pretty good although the refs helped them several times on some non calls.
What is especially aggravating is the officiating is inconsistant and it's hard to gauge what the rules really are this season.
But I would say Dallas is better this season than last...I wouldn't use today's game as that meaningfull. Wilson played more poorly than any game in his career. He had a QB rating of around 42 and his normal rating is around 110. I would have to say that his poor performance was mostly his own bad decisions and a crap game plan from the OC more than anything Dallas did.
The Cowboys kept pressure on Wilson all day and did a good job of containing him. I think the Cowboys frustrated the Seahawks, that is what caused the poor play by the Seahawks.
Perhaps you don't follow the Seahawks that closely. You know I do. Frankly giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch only twice in the first half is WAY out of what has brought the Seahawks to this point. The game plan was bizzare. Wilson had his chances to run like he did in Washington and for some reason chose to run out of bounds several times when he could have run for first downs. It seemed from the point of view of someone that has watched Wilson's developement very closely that he was "acting on orders" to play conservatively and to opt not to take chances. It seemed like the OC was reigning in Russell's run options. He looked timid and I know he is not timid.
I certainly don't want to appear to be making excuses. What I saw yesterday was disturbing and honestly I am just trying to make sense of something that made no sense.
Obviously Dallas came to play. They deserved the win. It wasn't even close.
BUT what happened needs corrected. We didn't get on top by accident and what Dallas did in OUR HOUSE will not go unchallenged.
As I type this I am listening to Carroll's first after game press conference and he is on the same page as I as to what needs fixed. He is as he should be very dissappointed in the play of our team yesterday. He stated that the very basics were at play..the lack of tackling..penalties ..etc.. He didn't sugar coat it. That's one of the things I admire about Pete.. He lays it all out..The good..the bad and the ugly.
The one thing I doubt we will hear from Pete is criticism of the quality of the game plan. He won't throw Bevell under the bus publicly.
I only saw the last quarter so no i did not know that.Knowing that though I hate to say this cause MS has done nothing but troll this section lately just to come on here and laugh at people like us for making predications about the seahawks but knowing carrol only ran ran the ball that many times and he only had Lynch run the ball 6 times in the san diego loss,something Lynch was very upset about,Im beginning to think he is right that carrol is throwing these games.
I have believed for many years that these games are rigged and Im starting to believe this game was as well.there have been a few superbowls in the past that I strongly suspeccted were rigged because of things that just made no sense at all.things done like that like not running lynch more often WOULD make sense though if carrol was rigging these games and paid off.
and it could also be that the seahawks heads have gotten so big that they think they can just show up and win now something i didnt think would happen to them.
I mean they had two weeks to clean up the mess they had against denver and to get ready for this four game stretch but did nothing with it. ever since the packers game they have not looked the same.they have been sloppy ever since.Only thing that makese since on that is they have gotten to where they think they can just show up and they'll win.
again if they dont get their act together and clean up this crap in the next couple weeks,Im done with them.they have now put themselves in position where they cant afford to lose more than one more game and they have a brutal 6 game stretch ahead of them towards the end of the year.