Skins vs Seasquawks Positive and Negatives

[NC_Skins]

Positive:

• Our punter. Tress Way average 49.9 yards per punt. Incredible.

• Kirk Cousins play in the second half. He started out slow in the first half, but seemed to get more aggressive as the game went on.

• Defensive adjustment in 2nd half.

• Kerrigan's pressure on Russell Wilson.

• Only 3 penalties the whole game.

Negatives:

• Special teams punt coverage (11.8 return average)

• kickoffs are still abysmal and led to good field position for Seattle.

• Defense in first half. What the fuck were these clowns doing for 10 days?

• Kerrigan and Orakpo over pursuing on their rushes to allow Wilson free reign to run. Kerrigan cleaned it up in 2nd half, but Orakpo still fell for it.

• Team's attitude after losses. As addressed by Jason Reid.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...02d_story.html

• Drops from guys in key situations.

• 3-12 on third down conversions.

• Alfred Morris fumbling yet again and not effective last night.

• OL being dominated at the point of attack.

Not sure I should really put down "defensive adjustment in 2nd half" as a positive. Truth is, had Seattle not have shot themselves in the foot for most of the 1st half, this game wouldn't have even been remotely close. Twenty one points taken off the board due to stupid mental errors by Seattle. In fact, I'd say they were a bigger value to us than our defense. Not sure how you can neglect Russell Wilson as a runner. I mean for fucks sake, you allowed him damn near 100 yards rushing in the first half. It's too late to wait till the 2nd half for an adjustment because that game should have realistically been over at the half. Stopping Russell Wilson should have been in the game plan.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Not sure I should really put down "defensive adjustment in 2nd half" as a positive. Truth is, had Seattle not have shot themselves in the foot for most of the 1st half, this game wouldn't have even been remotely close. Twenty one points taken off the board due to stupid mental errors by Seattle. In fact, I'd say they were a bigger value to us than our defense. Not sure how you can neglect Russell Wilson as a runner. I mean for fucks sake, you allowed him damn near 100 yards rushing in the first half. It's too late to wait till the 2nd half for an adjustment because that game should have realistically been over at the half. Stopping Russell Wilson should have been in the game plan.

Mistakes are part of the game. Seattle is lucky their defense kept our offense very limited, otherwise we have a different ball game. Good teams capitalize on those mistakes, bad teams don't period.

[SirLK26]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

<snip> Not sure I should really put down "defensive adjustment in 2nd half" as a positive. Truth is, had Seattle not have shot themselves in the foot for most of the 1st half, this game wouldn't have even been remotely close. Twenty one points taken off the board due to stupid mental errors by Seattle. In fact, I'd say they were a bigger value to us than our defense. <snip>

Two of those Harvin touchdowns came on the same drive, and they ended up with a FG. The other drive with a called-back touchdown eventually resulted in a touchdown anyway. Not sure how to look at that...

[calia]

Originally Posted by SirLK26

Two of those Harvin touchdowns came on the same drive, and they ended up with a FG. The other drive with a called-back touchdown eventually resulted in a touchdown anyway. Not sure how to look at that...

I look at it as Seattle being unable to score at will on our D. To be clear, they are undoubtedly the better team across the board. But they're not invincible, and saying that the TDs that were called back means that we got lucky doesn't make sense to me. It wasn't as though any of them were bad calls that went our way, to my recollection.

Having said that, our inability to control the ball and run gave Seattle WAY too many chances -- such that they could squander several of them and still put up 27 points on us. And that isn't good.

[Evilgrin]

They need to kick out half the roster, but Snyder isn't gonna let them. He makes too much money off the team, team may be terrible long as he owns them.

[SirLK26]

Originally Posted by calia

I look at it as Seattle being unable to score at will on our D. To be clear, they are undoubtedly the better team across the board. But they're not invincible, and saying that the TDs that were called back means that we got lucky doesn't make sense to me. It wasn't as though any of them were bad calls that went our way, to my recollection.

Having said that, our inability to control the ball and run gave Seattle WAY too many chances -- such that they could squander several of them and still put up 27 points on us. And that isn't good.

Just embarrassing that we let them score on a big play, Seattle gets penalized for something that really had no effect, and then we let them go right down and score again.

But this game was against one of the best teams in the league. Any positives we can get out of this game are positives indeed. Probably the most obvious one is that Cousins protected the football against a great defense.

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by SirLK26

Just embarrassing that we let them score on a big play, Seattle gets penalized for something that really had no effect, and then we let them go right down and score again.

But this game was against one of the best teams in the league. Any positives we can get out of this game are positives indeed. Probably the most obvious one is that Cousins protected the football against a great defense.

I love that we lined up DJax on Sherman's side, and exploited that big mouth on a couple of occasions. Eddie Royal and the Chargers showed that a big corner like Sherman lacks the quickness to lock down very fast/quick receivers, and I'm glad that Gruden and Cousins didn't shy away from throwing the ball to the right side of the field.