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Vince Verhei has been charting Seahawks games for Football Outsiders. He talks about what he's seen this year, and it ain't pretty.

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I respect the hell out of football outsiders and love the work they do, but some of this is just not true.

Again, it seems like every player not named Matt Hasselbeck is being forced to take the blame for the offense’s struggles. Spencer not an NFL-starting caliber center? Blaming Babs for the Gore runs in week 2? Babs was one-on-one with Gore 40 yards downfield, not an easy tackle to make, blame Colin Cole.

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by MFAN on Nov 30, 2009 4:35 PM PST reply actions  

They have a disproportionate number of Seahawk fans

and the Seahawk analysis has become thoroughly worthless. Awful. Nothing but complaining, and it smacks of overcompensating displays of objectivity for the hometown team. I don’t know why I never stopped reading Audibles after Michael David Smith left, there is very rarely any enlightening observations made, just the same snarky drivel I could find anywhere else in any given sports bar. But the lack of enlightened observations is fine; it’s the complaining that has basically become too patronizing to continue reading. I skim through Quick Reads, I wait for the stats to be updated, and browse Extra Points, but that’s it for Football Outsiders, now.

So I actually had commented about the Spencer line. I think Babineaux has come on, this year, but it didn’t start off the bat. No, the runs aren’t his fault, but the additional yardage is. That’s fair to pin it on him. I also know it’s hard to tackle Gore open field.

by jacobstevens on Nov 30, 2009 4:54 PM PST up reply actions  

But Colin Cole is big!

It’s not like Babs hasn’t been bad at times but to single him out like that seems odd.

And I don’t buy that there are 32 centers better than Spencer. Spencer is still shrugging off being thrown under the bus by Holmgren for Alexander’s decline (when oh when will he learn to make line calls) and now he’s getting blame for Hasselbeck’s decline.

by Nate Dogg on Nov 30, 2009 4:59 PM PST up reply actions  

The line call thing irks me

Failed line calls are part of a game, and fans of the NFL see a quarterback fall victim to free blitzers in almost every contest, but somehow when it happens to Seattle, Chris Spencer is a slow child that is killing the team with his thick, unteachable skull.

by John Morgan on Nov 30, 2009 5:07 PM PST up reply actions  

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