Oso planning to go pro
I would have passed on second down. When it is 2nd and 14, I would put the ball in the hands of my MVP. Agreed on 3rd and 16 though. The reward of Seattle spending a TO there, or the clock running off another 40 seconds, is way greater than the risk there.The biggest problem after that is the ease in which Seattle picked up that first TD. They went 70 yards in 1:43 without spending a timeout. The very first play of that drive went 14 yards, which matched their longest play of the day. Then the next one goes 20. Then an incompletion. Then the pass to Lynch for 26 yards.There is a lot of MMQBing about his decision making. As I said, I would have passed on second down there. But there was also no indication at all that Seattle was going to slice the Packers defense open like that.
Fangio, eh? Be interesting to see who the OC is. Again, I liked the Fox hire because, if nothing else, he'd bring in great coordinators.
I don't want to nitpick individual plays as a frankly agree with most. But there was a general theme both offensively and defensively. Play the odds. Play to survive and not lose. Never take the 'kill shot'. When we did that, we ended up putting the burden on our 47th man (Bostic) not our 1st and 2nd men, Rodgers/Clay. THAT'S what MM needs to take responsibility for. Let me mention one sequence in particular. Clay gets a big sack and it's second and 31. I believe it was 3rd down when we rushed 2 plus a spy. They get the first down leading to the fake field goal TD. Funny how we seem to use Blitz Zero and full Prevent at exactly the wrong times. And of course the two special teams blunders ultimately come down to Slocum's coaching. And Slocum reports to MM.And more to your point about the quick 4th Q touchdown. Perhaps, just perhaps, after Lynch stepped out of bounds and it got reviewed and set at the 9 Mike could have called his first timeout, brought the defense over, and said 'Put a f*cking end to this now, goddammit!' But it's not in his nature. It never will be. So the learning he can do is to add some guys to the coaching staff who do bring that.I get it. It was a perfect storm. None of us could believe it. Still can't. But if we don't use this to get better it will all be in vain. Oh well, didya see that the Crew traded Yovani??
If players can't get motivated to make a stop in the biggest game of their season, no rah-rah pep talk from a coach is going to change that.
You don't think somebody in that Seattle locker room at 16-0 at the half lit a fire under those guys? I doubt they just sat and had a discussion about how things went. My guess is somebody got fired up and it motivated those guys to play better in the 2nd half.
Yup. "I wouldn't change anything." Fine, that's fine. But did you LEARN anything? Let's hope he has.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
In other words, Bostick most likely won't ever make a similar mistake again, but will MM?
Well, except they really didn't play better in the second half until the last 5 minutes.
No. I don't. These are professionals and this is their job. Coaches make adjustments and players execute them. A fired up, motivated team isn't going to win with a poor gameplan.
I thought the Seahawks' gameplan was pretty poor and they still won the game. Then again, I thought the Packers' gameplan was pretty poor too, so I guess one of the teams had to win. Seemed to me it was the team who was willing to win for 60 minutes and not 55 won the game.
What was bad about the Seahawks' gameplan?
Oof...https://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/status/557632358107852802
That's six if he gets past Wilson.
It at least gets them into FG range.
I was expecting them to come out and run the zone-read quite a bit throughout the game. They did very little of that up until the last 5 minutes, and we saw what kind of success they had with it at that time. I'm not sure why they didn't do a lot more of that earlier in the game. In fact, they did very little in terms of their usual deception (zone-read and also the gimmicky play-action fake type stuff).
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter 25s25 seconds agoRavens hired former Bears HC Marc Trestman as OC, per source.
In other words, Seattle made the necessary adjustments late in the game as they ran the read-option 10 times for 93 yards and 2 TDs in the 4th quarter and OT. So perhaps it was a change in strategy as opposed to a red-assed, rah-rah pep talk that got them going.
Like I said, they played much better from the start of the 3rd quarter even up until that point than they had in the first half.
No they didn't. They went three and out on their first drive.
Okay, and then...? Again, they were down 16-0 at the half. Through 30 minutes, they were outscored by 16. Over the course of the next 25 minutes, they outscored the Packers by 4. If that's not playing much better, then I'm not sure what to say...