Nate Burleson knows how that is.

Wrotto’s first start not withstanding, the idea of Vallos and Wrotto’s lace curtain resistance is something that should cause you to start working on your next hangover. Awful. Willis? Now there’s the making of something beastly. And yes, feel free to ship TJ ot at the end of the year. Weaver and Schmitt will do nicely, thank you.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves

next year they will be waving banners of love… this will not take much to fix.

but Jones, Locklear, Willis, AND Oher, seems like a lot of tackles.

I hate to play the anonymous armchair calling out, because I’m sure that Marshall knows more about football than I’ll ever hope to learn … but for whatever reason it’s just not clicking this year.

Sitting in the upper deck, the last 3 home games I’ve been able to see our D weaknesses pre-snap and predict exactly where we’re going to break down on key plays. Today, it was a NE 3rd & 4 all the other CBs up playing press, except Wilson giving Welker a 5 yard cushion … bam – automatic conversion right at the sticks. He must have his reasons for calling it like that, but I sure don’t get them.

I just have a hard time believing that our D as a whole is as bad as it’s played this season. There’s just too much talent there.Call it blind faith, but I believe that HC Mora looking over the shoulder of a young, creative DC (personally, I’m on the Zerrick Rollins bandwagon) will do wonders next year.

Both of their long passes came on third down conversions of 7+, and both came against 7 man rushes from the Hawks. The first Russell came straight up the middle, and if not for a little chip by one of the O-lineman, he would have had a sack, Russell still recorded a QB hit. The second was an overloaded blitz offensive right that never came close to Cassel.

On both of those series of downs we used smaller blitzes and more men in coverage to get the Pats into 3rd and long situations, but then bring the house and get burned. It’s infuriating to see as a fan.

A couple of things I found funny though. If the natural progression from LB coach is to D Coordinator, then that’s kind of weird that the natural progression for Secondary Coach is to Head Coach (Just kidding, I know he’s the assistant coach as well).
Man I love our LB, but sometimes it seems like they underproduce. I can’t tell if it’s our D-Line or our playcalling though.

when you’ve been stuck in the valley for years.

I’d say 80% of all questions Holmgren’s answered his entire tenure here have been fluff. Our local media has always seemed more concerned with the human interest or behind the scenses “hey, I golf with this guy” stuff, then actual X’s and O’s or personnel decisions.

In fairness, I could see them asking because there’s some vague norm Chow/BYU connections between Holmgren and the new UW guy … but still, you’re right – that’s a question for a separate interview or off-the-record stuff. Not something you ask at the post-game.