Matt takes a "Sack" yesterday

Reminds me of a certain #37....

over 1 year ago YoSoyMacho 12 comments 0 recs |

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All I see

is Russell sucking his man into the Okie black hole. Am I missing something here?

This wooden soul of mine, it cannot ever climb from places it has fallen: In between where light can shine. It never falls in line, it barely has a spine, like branches severed from the vine. Like it was faulty by design.

by Cheddar28 on Dec 6, 2010 12:55 PM PST reply actions

You see the same thing I do.

Makes me wonder why #8 went down and didn’t try to get up.

by YoSoyMacho on Dec 6, 2010 2:16 PM PST reply actions

The blurb is unnecessarily spiteful and serves no purpose.

The little blurb reminds me of the fans that ran on 37’s back when he was good and dumped on him when he couldn’t do that anymore and turned classless. Congratulations YoSoyMacho. You’re so 2008.

by Joshua Kasparek on Dec 6, 2010 4:45 PM PST reply actions

Perhaps this will

This comment reminds me of all those mindless people who grew up thinking Jim Zorn was a first-ballot HOF’er and thought “Manchild” was a flattering nickname for Shawn Kemp. (how’s that for unnecessarily spiteful?) I was in Husky stadium when #37 went for 266, and I have been to soooo many games since.

I don’t dislike Matt, of course he’s been great for the hawks, and so was Shawn for that matter. But as a person who was at the game (despite what was previously reported) and as many times as I’ve seen it on my DVR, this and a few other plays with Matt this year make me wonder if he’s playing to protect himself… sort of like a #37 running around with a cast on his wrist, too. You can make a good argument about how helpful that is for the team (given that #6 sits behind him), but that definitely wasn’t “leaving it on the field.” Maybe you forgot that Shawn didn’t last a month in the NFL after he was (mercifully) released by Seattle.

Btw, you should broaden your post a bit to the thousands of other fans in the stadium booing… maybe they don’t share your perspective.

So I guess I’ll just dump on you instead.

by YoSoyMacho on Dec 6, 2010 5:10 PM PST up reply actions

Yeah lets have a bunch of attacks on eachother character and fanhood

Cause that always works out great.

by stufr on Dec 6, 2010 5:34 PM PST up reply actions

They boo'd because they couldn't see the play. You posted about it without checking facts and took a jab at a former player for no real reason. at a former player.

I don’t need to broaden the statement or post because those thousands who boo’d didn’t make this post in what now appears to be your professed ignorance. You could have said any number of things or even said in the blurb, “what was up with this?” Instead you made your own judgement and took a opinion you held about Matt’s play and justified it. This in part is what angers me, but the attitude is what bothers me more.

by Joshua Kasparek on Dec 6, 2010 5:35 PM PST up reply actions

67,000 people in the staduim, and nobody saw the play.

Shocking, really. All those people were booing because they couldn’t see what had just happened on the field. I doubt it. And of course they are all wrong and YOU are correct. Glad you’re here to straighten us all out on “the facts.” I guess we’ll see later this week in Pete’s presser about his status. I doubt the knee will come up.

If there is a protocol guide for how to discuss past / present / future players whose legend is allowed to obscure what happens on the field, please direct me to it. Otherwise I’ll just “take a opinion I hold and justify it” based on what happens on the field.

by YoSoyMacho on Dec 6, 2010 7:32 PM PST up reply actions

The play was already discussed in today's press conference

I’ve described it upthread.

by Greetings from the Lord Humongous! on Dec 6, 2010 8:17 PM PST up reply actions

Maybe I missed it but I heard no mention of this play in Pete's press conference.

BMW17 Comeback Player of the Year and future Probowl Mainstay

by eohawkfan on Dec 7, 2010 5:00 AM PST up reply actions

I guess it wasn't addressed in the press conference

I read about it in Eric Williams MMQB chat:

[Comment From Duke]
What was Hass’ knee buckling toward the end of the first half about? Just an awkward move?
11:02
Matt said he got his cleat stuck in the turf and he had new shoes he had not worn before. But I also think it’s worth noting and keeping an eye on.

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/seahawks/2010/12/06/monday-morning-qb-at-11-a-m-2/

by Greetings from the Lord Humongous! on Dec 7, 2010 4:41 PM PST up reply actions

All it takes is a little turn for a knee to give way.

And no, 67,000 people can’t see what happened, because they can’t see that his heel clearly got stuck in the turf while Matt was trying to turn and set for a throw the incident is quick and easy to miss. You seem to imply that Matt fell down because he’s some kind of a wuss, which is why you wrote the blurb at the bottom. I’ve had three knee surgery’s and none of what I saw from that play looked like Matt was “wussing” out or “Hamming” it up.

If this is the reason you’re adding to dumping Matt it makes me angry because this play wasn’t one of the typical Hasselsacks and didn’t seem more than bad luck and here you are insulting him and Shaun in one go for no other reason than the internet allows you to. I don’t have to like it and I will fight it because someone has to.

by Joshua Kasparek on Dec 7, 2010 12:49 PM PST up reply actions

I give up.

Seriously, this discussion has become way more trouble than it is worth. I’ve moved on.

But an area where we may agree… Matt has 10 TD’s and 11 picks this year, and a passer rating of 76, which puts him at 26th in the league, below Chad Henne and Jason Campbell. There are certainly other things to discuss when it comes to his play in a contract year. But I don’t.

I like Matt. We will need to re-sign him for lack of a better option. My hope is that he doesn’t go the same way that Shawn did (hence the reference), toppling over with less and less of a reason to sustain his tenure. Like I said, we’ll see later in the week if the knee was really an issue.

Don’t martyr yourself for the quality of communication on the internet. Doesn’t seem like a productive activity.

by YoSoyMacho on Dec 7, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions