We're going to be good, real good...We're going to be something special. The talent we have on this...

We're going to be good, real good...We're going to be something special. The talent we have on this team and then coach Mora brings everything together just right...Don't flex us in, we'll have our coming-out party in the playoffs.

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I think it's possible

because I’m getting more and more sold on the scheme of the offense and defense. The talent, though, and the coach I don’t think alone constitutes something special. Just another decent team, a good team, that like before can really make a splash if everything goes right. If we’re special, I think it will be because the league didn’t anticipate our new defense. There’s question marks on the talent, though, all over.

by jacobstevens on May 12, 2009 12:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That really depends on your view.

Do you believe that the team is still talented, but had schemes that didn’t correctly use their players(geared towards the regime change), or do you believe that the team is just moderately talented?

I believe that the team has become more fundamentally talented, with talent more of the right spots and scheme players to fill in the gaps.

The real thing that could hold this team back is the injury bug. A LOT of talent was injured last year, and therefore a lot of our talent is coming off an injury shortened season, and the possibility of re-injury from lack of conditioning, lack of built up strength, or just lack of practice time and playing time the past year. If we lost just Walter Jones and Matt Hasselbeck, both of who are coming off some legitimate injuries, the offense would not have a chance to be explosive. I believe that if the rest of the line stays healthy and the backs stay healthy, that we would be better able to handle Seneca Wallace stint. But lets say on the defensive side we lose a key secondary member like Trufant to bad luck, Kearny is never better than mediocre, and a LB has a stinger, the defense could look as bad as last season.

I think injuries will be the biggest issue to overcome, if we can keep the injuries away from most of our starters, I think a .500 season is not unreasonable to expect, and a playoff season is possible.

by cashless on May 12, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Late reply

But I think the team is just moderately talented. And I am excited about the new defensive scheme, and I think that has a real chance to make a big difference, rather than I feel the previous scheme didn’t use the players correctly. It did; just the blitzes got stale and pass rush didn’t deliver.

Talent-wise, I seee more-or-less 8-8. Only 6 or 7 wins, would be a distinct possibility. It would be moderately hard to repeat 2008’s woeful performance, whatever the reasons. 10-6 is in sight. Have to have everything go right. Something special would have to develop to push it further than that.

Our 2007 team could have easily been 8-8. Thanks Josh Brown. Or was that 2006? Whichever, the other season was pretty much the same. 2004 could have been an 11 or 12 win team if a few things went their way. The Rams meltdown ruined the season.

8-8, means we could very realistically build into a 10-6 division champ. Or some breaks result in 6-10. We have a million questions.

Coach. Coords. Interior line. Walt. Hasselbeck. The receivers. The run-heavy pass neglect. The defensive scheme. Kerney. Cole. Redding. Jackson. Curry. Russell. The odds of all of those questions being answered positively is slim. If we can limit it to 3, and they aren’t Hasselbeck, we could still be OK. But that’d be a good team with holes. Playoffs, sure, but a deep run? How many consecutive Giants/Cardinals surprise runs are we going to see?

by jacobstevens on May 20, 2009 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Now THIS...

is the kind of classy, yet confident disposition we’ve needed on our team for quite some time. I really like hearing that. With the addition of Aaron Curry, and the Leroy Hill situation, the Housh signing this off-season has been pushed [while still on the stove, of course] to the back burner. I think Housh has a positive significant impact on not only the teams productivity, but the team’s mentality, and attitude. Housh strikes fear in defenders hearts, and instills confidence in his teammate’s hearts.

And, quite frankly… from the way he spoke in the interview… he’s totally pissed off about the whole “East Coast Bias” / “Seattle National Media Blackout” business, and plans to do something about it, gentlemen.

Oh hell yes!!

"And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"

"But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel." Edgar Allen Poe "The Masque of the Red Death"

by Grimm Blackwood on May 12, 2009 1:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on May 12, 2009 5:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Nevermind.

"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on May 12, 2009 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sorry, but this does nothing for me.

Every year, someone on every team says the same thing. The only teams that don’t have guys saying ’don’t sleep on us, we can be real good’ are teams like the Colts, Steelers, and Pats, since they’re already good and no one is sleeping on them.

McCoy McCoy 2010, also acceptable, Russell Okung, Ndamukong Suh, Dez Bryant, Ciron Black, Eric Berry, and Bryan Bulaga.

by LantermanC on May 12, 2009 8:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Shit, are you telling me the Lions aren't going to the playoffs this year?

by aerozeppelin on May 12, 2009 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kevin Smith thinks so.

by SPENCEMAN on May 13, 2009 4:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And last year Kitna said they would be 12-4 before the season started. They were a hair shy of that mark

by Built2Spill on May 13, 2009 7:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought it was 10 wins?

Sam Bradford, future Seattle Seahawk.

by Carl Shinyama on May 13, 2009 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pessimist

I agree, I think we’ll be awesome, yet…

Our Offensive line is Fragile and even when healthy may not be very dominate.
Our Defensive line is missing that very dominate big man. Mebane is playing a new position, and his counterparts are unproven to be the force we need them to be.
We have a saftey that needs to retire.
We don’t have a great RB core, hopefully they develop into a 3 headed monster, but who knows.
We have a new system on both sides of the ball.

I totally think we’ll be great, but just like last year, there are reasons to see that people may just be enjoying the happy juice this early in the season.

Last year…
Relying on a bunch of rookies to fill holes
(Red Bryant, Taylor/Obamanu, LoJack)

Hoping Kerney, Tubbs, Branch, Engram, Bernard stays healthy…

Man last year sucked.

by Justise on May 14, 2009 5:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs