Title :- Seahawks Mailbag: Week 1 Surprises, Booing & More
Seahawks Mailbag: Week 1 Surprises, Booing & More
The Seahawks are 1-0 after a wild Monday night time win over the Denver Broncos, and now they have a quick turnaround earlier than their Week 2 game in Santa Clara. And with gamers taking part in a much-deserved time off on Tuesday, now could be the time to open up the mailbag and answer questions from you, the enthusiasts. As usually, thanks to every person who asked questions this week, and apologies if I couldn’t get to yours this time round.
A: What surprised me most? Like pretty much all people else, I’ll go along with Denver’s selection to strive a 64-backyard subject purpose past due in the game in preference to cross for it on fourth-and-five. The level appeared to be set for Russell Wilson to doubtlessly pull of his strong point—a fourth region comeback—for his new group even as facing his former crew, but with more than a minute nevertheless on the clock, the Broncos permit the clock run down, known as day trip, then tried what might were tied for the second longest area purpose in NFL history, at sea stage, outside and into the quit of Lumen Field known for overdue-recreation chaos.
As for who surprised me, I might point to Geno Smith, now not due to the fact I didn’t assume he would play properly, but against a virtually good Broncos defense, there’s no way to assume a quarterback beginning the game 12 for 12 and going 17 for 18 inside the first half of. Having watched Smith exercise for 3-plus years, I’m now not surprised that, given his threat, he is playing nicely, but I’d be mendacity if I stated I saw that kind of first half of coming.
Uchenna Nwosu is another participant who loved a strong camp and preseason, however like Smith’s game, it would had been tough to expect Nwosu having that large of an effect in his Seahawks debut, recording a sack, seven tackles, a bypass defensed, and maximum considerably, a compelled fumble at the goal line.
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Debbie from Spokane says, “The fanatics have been out of line booing Russell Wilson. That was a display of poor sportsmanship.”
A: I’ve visible numerous questions/feedback like this, and absolutely, I simply don’t get it. It’s sports, which might be meant to be leisure, and if it’s amusing/cathartic for fans to boo an opponent, a pretty harmless act, and likely assist their team inside the method, then why will we care? When did a football sport emerge as the vicinity for correct decorum? Was that Wimbledon or an NFL stadium? Russell Wilson is greater than capable of handling a few thousand booing fanatics, and as a long way as I recognize, no one turned into yelling some thing vile or harassing his family or throwing matters on the sphere—any of those matters are out of line and shouldn’t manifest. Wilson did loads of remarkable things for the Seahawks and the Seattle region, on and rancid the sector, and sooner or later he’ll nearly clearly cross inside the Ring of Honor, or enhance the 12 Flag, or have his number retired, or a few different honor. And while one of these moments manifest, I have zero doubt that fans will provide him a completely heat ovation he merits. But am I going to fault fanatics for booing only six months after Wilson left Seattle after the NFL scheduled that recreation for Week 1, and after fanatics have spent months hearing from just about each course how bad their group goes to be because Wilson left? Absolutely now not.
If you were at the game and selected to take the high avenue and cheer for Wilson, that’s high-quality, but I honestly don’t see the difficulty with lovers booing, some thing that takes place at wearing activities around the world every day.
A: The Seahawks had 19 runs out of forty nine plays. One of those was a Smith scramble, 3 have been kneel downs on the end of the sport, however I still wouldn’t cross so far to say they abandoned the run. That being stated, Carroll will be the first to inform you that he would have preferred to see the Seahawks run the ball a touch greater regularly and greater efficaciously. But an critical aspect to remember about Carroll’s offensive philosophy is that the aim is stability extra than it is to simply run the ball all of the time, and for Carroll stability isn’t about having a positive variety of runs or passes in a given game, however to have a balanced assault able to shifting the ball successfully by way of whatever method essential. And mainly early on whilst the Seahawks offense become clicking, Smith became locating receivers and tight ends open to make plays within the passing game, at the same time as the Broncos had been playing stout run protection. Somewhere down the street the Seahawks could have a recreation wherein they run the ball a ton, but Carroll’s philosophy isn’t always to pressure that only for the sake of having more incorporates.
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A: Adams suffered what Carroll known as a extreme knee injury remaining night time, and that is no question a blow to Seattle’s protection, which had high hopes for what Adams would be able to do in Seattle’s new scheme. The top information is the Seahawks like their protection depth in Josh Jones, who turned into one of the bright spots of education camp, and Ryan Neal, who has played properly in a starting position each of the past seasons whilst Adams ignored time due to injury.