But I was happy with this win.

It’s not the defense really, it’s the offensive line. Buffalo is a good football team and no team has had a match for their blitzing, aggressive style.

The running game is back, the passing game is getting better, and most importantly, we have a new kicker. If Olindo Mare can make a clutch kick in the next few weeks then I’m sold on him.

Coming into this game I thought the Giants were going to blow out the Bengals and then soon the Seahawks…but now things have changed, I actually have hope.

Good win, console our friends at Turf Show Times.

playing well today, just got a new hd tv the other day and dont think i could have kept my sanity if i had to watch another stinker in detail

Waiting for Seahawks vs Giants to be truly optimistic.

He’s everywhere, and the tackles he made in the open field against Gore and Jackson were ungodly. If he keeps this up he’ll deserve a lot of attention for defensive player of the year.

I agree about this win being purifying. It was one thing to have logical reasons not to panic in face of the adversity the Hawks saw in the first two games, but it’s a whole ‘nother thing to have a win like this show you you’re not just a homer. Judging by how I feel right now I think this is the first time I’ve breathed since the fake field goal in Buffalo.

Bumpus may have very well sealed his fate with that muffed punt…..or he’ll just lose his special teams spot.

Jon Ryan will never ever get us a touchback.

Very stoked—relieved—with the big win and, save for the predictable Pork Chop hammy, for coming out uninjured.

And I don’t want to burst your fragile bubble, but: this team is not a Super Bowl contender. Not yet.

Now I know some of you fools think I’m some sort of concern troll, a bandwagon-jumper. My wet-feathered friends, I am neither. I go back to the earliest of early days with this franchise. Family season seats at the 20 yard line, 100 level, 24 rows up, DiamondVision side behind the home bench. I remember Sam Adkins, the benchwarmer. Sam-Bam Cunningham. Efren Herrera on Monday Nights. Kingdogs and Bill the Beerman. Lefty Zorn slinging it to Largent, handing off to Sherman Smith and Bigfoot Theotis Brown. A backup from tiny Milton College throwing to #80 and Deep-Heat Daryl Turner, handing off to Curt Warner and Dan Doornink. And now, a few times a year, I even get paid to watch NFL football. So hear me out, rubes. Because I’m occasionally down on this particular incarnation of the Seattle Seahawks does NOT mean that I do not wish all manner of success upon them. Quite the opposite.

A fan site is not served by blind fandom. Brutal honesty, not irrational optimism OR pessimism, is the coin of the realm. Especially for a team representing the great city of Seattle. If you follow Lookout Landing at all, you see an educated, cynical, hilarious community built up around one truly gifted writer and a number of solid contributors. They offer fawning, near-homoerotic praise and worship to players, managers, and administrators when they deserve it, and near-violent excoriation when warranted. Which in the case of the M’s it so frequently is, regrettably.

John, you do an amazing job of breaking down plays, to a level I would never aspire to. Some of which comes comes across as irrelevant minutiae, and doesn’t seem terribly accessible. SB sites do aspire to educate and inspire, not cater to the lowest common denominator. Seattle hack beat writers have been doing that for long enough. So keep on it. We need to learn.

With that said…

You know what? Fuck it. I’M WRONG. I’m glad to hear that you think we’re Super Bowl contenders. This is a fan site. I don’t personally think it’s true, what with Lofa wearing a cast, Tru sporting a club, K-Rob and a bunch of street FAs on the WR depth chart, Russell patrolling the defensive backfield and Spencer making the line calls… Deep? No, we’re not deep. But we are GOOD. We are fucking TALENTED, no question. We NEED the good. We NEED a snake-in-the-grass upset of NYG on the road in Week 5. The league is wide the fuck OPEN! Who the hell else is a contender? Homo the Romo? Manning the Fluke? Shit, Miami beat the snot out of the Patriots in Foxboro! They’re a contender!!

So… Go Seahawks!! I believe? Fuckin-A.

Meatloaf Meatloaf!! Hot spuds, Caesar!

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. By the way, that song’s by Lesley Gore.

I don’t really know that I have anything to say that hasn’t been covered here. I’m afraid if I punt something out there, it’ll wobble and change direction in midflight but Michael Bumpus will still try to catch it. Ba-BING!

With the huge caveat that we were playing the Rams, everything about the offense was encouraging. That includes the slim receiving game, and I give the WR’s credit for being dependable and not making too many lamentable mistakes. McMullen was really inspired.

The touchdown drive in the 3rd quarter, which basically featured nothing but running, was the finest drive we’ve put together this year. It was exactly what we needed to do last week that we didn’t: Deliberately eat up the clock with a sizeable if not comfortable lead.

Again, tempered by the fact that we were playing a maligned defense, Julius still turned in some breakout runs and gave us a yard more than we got last year. Duckett proved exactly why he was signed when we needed short yardage. I’m encouraged. Well, hopeful.

The Hasselbeck block was this year’s Josh-Brown-tackles-Devin-Hester: A wonderful, inspirational and highly ill-advised moment. It’s one of those things we can point do whenever someone claims we don’t have the heart of a true competitor. Of course, it was a separated shoulder away from being a bad choice. But still, great theatre.

I was surprised how warmly received ESPN’s Kenny Mayne was when he rose the 12th Man flag. I know he’s a local boy and all, but still.

Best piece of chatter from Sec. 328: “I don’t believe in the existence of the St. Louis Rams! It’s an urban legend!”

It felt even better to win convincingly, and dominate the way we did. We needed a blowout win in the worst way.

Enjoy your bye week, boys. You deserved it. Bring on the Giants.

so fun up in standing room only by the 12th man flag
this giants game is huge, a win and that’s momentum for the whole year. they definitely seem beatable after their game yesterday, let’s hope our guys are ready to go out there on the east coast!
i was at the game and didn’t see carlson for pretty much the whole second half, was he hurt or not playing for blocking schemes (heller in for the run..) or just avoiding injury?? or was i totally wrong and he was in there?