Sunday, October 05, 2008

Seahawks, worst team in NFL?

After today's lackluster effort I have to concede that the Seahawks are just a terrible team. It appears that they were still on vacation today. I really don't want to hear how tough it is to fly to he East coast to play a game.

Where to begin with the critique. Let's start with Billy McMullen. That guy needs to be cut tomorrow. He is simply overmatched out there on the field. He runs terrible routes and invites the defender to have a clean shot at any pass thrown to him. He has no clue how to achieve separation or how to run a route. Kerry Colbert, hands of stone.

The secondary today was as usual, terrible. Kelly Jennings might be one of the weakest corners in the league. He is small, and weak. He gets terrible jams on the line of scrimmage and seemingly can't cover anybody. Even when he interferes with a receiver they still catch the ball, because he can't even do that right. I hope he was benched and not just hurt, because it looked like they finally were fed up with him and put Wilson in there, who, in an act of solidarity with Jennings promptly got beat deep.

Julian Peterson was absolutely awful today. As a team leader it was pathetic watching his terrible tackling all day long. Does he really think Jacobs is going to go down just because he hit him? Try wrapping your arms around him next time. The Seahawks are one of the worst tackling teams in the NFL.

Dion Grant, where to begin. This guy constantly was out of position and losing contain on the outside. If he needed to go inside, he went outside. If he should stay outside, he went inside. On one play he was behind a lineback who was already on the outside of the lead blocker and instead of going to the inside where the cutback lane was, he continued to the outside on Hill's hip and got pushed out of the play. He help the lead blocker block him and Hill on the play which went for a big gain. He was out of position all day long. Josh wilson was another guy who gave up big plays because he was out of position.

The Defense had no clue where they were supposed to be. They had no energy, no pressure, no presence on the field. The Giants ran/passed at will. It was one of the most dominating performances ever. The Seahawks were outclassed, outplayed and outcoached. Maybe Holmgren should step down now and let's get the rebuilding started.

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