Spencer, Wahle likely headed to IR
by Wayward Llama on Dec 2, 2008 7:11 AM PST
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PrintI suppose that there's not too much to lose at this point by letting Vallos and Willis finish the season out. I just hope that Hasselbeck doesn't pay for it.
Edit by John Morgan: This should be the cue to bench Matt Hasselbeck. Steven Vallos was awful against Dallas, perhaps best evidenced by nose tackle Tank Johnson and inside linebacker Bradie James three sacks. Nose tackle Jay Ratliff added two stops, a tip and a tackle for a loss of two. Hasselbeck was under siege all game and much of the pressure started up the gut.
Not only should Seattle bench Hasselbeck, it should bench Walter Jones. I've explained why teams can't tank, but given the age and injury history of each, this is entirely justifiable and shouldn't been seen as anything but prudence. Sean Locklear can start at left tackle.
Benching Hasselbeck and Jones is somewhat far fetched, but starting Mansfield Wrotto is not. At 2-10 and no longer fielding a competitive team, it's time Seattle sends in the clowns. Something to root for. Something to stare at other than the broken back quarterback and his three ring suckus.
On a final note, Spencer's injury strengthens Seattle's need at center. Oregon's Max Unger is a venerable center prospect, played two seasons at left tackle and has the size, strength and athleticism to play left guard. He's an excellent pull blocker and his stock would be higher if he wasn't typecast as a center and didn't snap to Jeremiah Masoli. A team rarely gets a chance to cover two positions with one pick, but Unger in the early second round could do that. Should he play left guard, he could pick up line calling from Spencer.
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Spencer finally starts looking like a football player,
and back he goes to the IR. Is it possible to just draft all of Oklahoma’s line with the first rounder?
Can't wait for Ruskell to knock this one out of the park.
Jeremiah Masoli was my high school quarterback
I feel famous for having his name mentioned in this article!
Masoli looked good against OSU last week.
They couldn’t throw the ball that well, but ran all over the Beavers.
pick up line calling from Spencer?
Maybe he can learn run blocking from Locklear. Still we need a talent infusion on the line, though I was thinking more of a tackle who can play guard for a year or two next to Big Walt.
otherwise that would be akin to learning to sing Opera from Stephen Hawking
Can't wait for Ruskell to knock this one out of the park.
Injury List
Branch
Engram
Obomanu
Burleson
Payne
Wallace
Hasselbeck
Tatupu
Sims
Bryant
Wahle
Kerney
Bernard
Babineaux
Morris
Weaver
Spencer
Locklear
This isn’t even comprehensive, but if you told me before the season that we would be missing every one of the guys on that list for a game or more I would definitely not have had high expectations for this team. I am not blaming this season on injuries, but I doubt things would have been this bad if we had been healthier.
If you told me before the season that Sims, Spencer, and Wahle were going to miss games at the same time
I would have been very concerned.
This list? This is mind-boggling.
Ugh.
One has to wonder about the competancy of the Hawks’ training staff. I mean, our WR’s have been getting dinged for years and years… and now they’re just plain wiped out.
Well
Other than conditioning, its hard to prevent an injury – most of the time they’re pretty much the result of bad luck. The training staff might be responsible for some slow recoveries, but a lot of those WR injuries listed above are first timers (Obo, Payne, and Burleson).
by SeaTownBlueDevil on Dec 2, 2008 1:01 PM PST up reply actions
Well..
We never had a WR who was durable on another team come here and not be durable. Or a guy leave here and be durable. Just bad luck.
Um, Branch?
He didn’t miss very many games as a Patriot.
Practicing to avoid Injury
Is it possible that Holmgren’s notorious fear of injury and low impact practices (compared to other nfl teams) might actually be leading to increased risk of injury? If your body isn’t conditioned for the kind of collision impacts these guys face, could that explain why we seemingly are always talking about injuries?
Maybe I’m being too short-sighted, but it seems like it’s the norm the past few years for us to have a disproportionate number of injuries.
I agree that it's a good idea to bench
Walter, to keep him healthy, but I doubt the team would ever do so.
IR not Bench right?
Jones and Hasselbeck are perpetually injured. We would want them to be placed on IR, not benched. That way we could bring up people from the practice squad and add to the PS. Right?
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