49ers Dispatch Seahawks 33-17: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

They were better than I thought they’d be. And the defense looks like a solid NFL D. It’s just that the O is going to leave them on the field way too much.

And the Steelers got pounded today. That’s always cause for celebration.

and a few things right. And we STILL held strong until the late fourth quarter. There were some very encouraging signs that if we can avoid costly penalties and get our act together, that this could be a very good team someday.

Very disappointing loss, especially with the blowup on special teams, but nothing a lot of us probably weren’t expecting.

The “Good” the defense…. better than I expected.

The “Bad” the offensive line… not any better than the first preseason game

The “UGLY” Tarvaris Jackson …. he looked scared, incompetent, and just straight ugly.

and its gonna take some time to transition to Gallery when he comes back too.
Our run D looks legit, but we’re gonna have trouble with even mediocre passing teams.

Chancellor looks good back there. He can hit. Man am I stoked for our DB’s. ET and Chancellor are a scary combo, even in their second year.

I just don’t think he has the mental capacity to do the job. Period. Not a lot of guy do. The NFL plays friggin fast as hell . Don’t care here goes …Charlie!! Charlie!!

its not gonna happen until after the bye week. You need to give Tarvaris a shot once he has Rice out there, and more continuity on the o-line. He needs to develop more chemistry with his receivers to take those shots downfield. Personally I doubt he will do any better but what do we have to lose by giving him a chance? I saw mediocre line play in the second half which is a HUGE improvement over the preseason. Lots of those sacks were Tarvaris’s fault, not throwing it to his receivers and running around his pocket with no idea what was happening around him. Overall, im stoked for the future, lots of bright spots on the D.

we might have scored ten points in the first half and held them to ten with that extra time of possession. later in the game, whitehurst may have sustained the drive the ended up in the punt return for a td and it could’ve been a game. Who knows? maybe we’ll get to see later in the season

Hopefully they can beat AZ at home, but other than that the other games dont look good for the Seahawks. This is going to be a brutal stretch of games for the fans to watch.

I think (1) the defense played very well, (2) the receivers have a lot of talent, (3) the line performed slightly better than expected (if you expected them to play bad).

So, if we had even average play at quarterback, I think we could do some real damage. I saw enough of T-Sack before he ever came to the team, but I’ve seen way too much at this point. Carroll is all about accountability, and not putting the ball on the ground. How long is Joke going to get away with it?

Browner got two bad calls because he came from the Candian league and NFL Refs. don’t like guys that come from Canada. If you look at all his other play in this game he was very good.
All your other points I agree with.
I really don’t think Jackson will play any better than he did tonight. The rest of the team will grow with seasoning. I hope they give Karney that call, we really need a blocking FB.
Kudos to Chancellor, Thomas, Baldwin the D-line.
Sp. Teams, please stay in your lanes! Practice Practice Practice!

I’ve been thinking about the similarities between Hasselbeck’s and Jackson’s first couple years. Hass struggled and was replaced by a veteran. He was playing like crap and then things started to click. There’s still a chance for Jackson. He’s got all the physical tools and he can (warning cliche) “make all the throws.”

Scott Johnson of the Everett Herald has a nice series on past players for the Hawks. Here’s the link to the Hasselbeck story – great read.

Aaron Curry looked like a good NFL linebacker. He had plenty of chances to do infuriating ‘Currylike’ things, but instead had a very solid game.

This loss can be blamed on the kick returns but the whole first half QB was horrible. I can understand the sympathy if he was adequate for the game but he was only adequate for half the game. That said, I’m glad to have the run smothering defense back and the secondary looks way better than last year.

If the Colts are this bad, they will be taking the franchise QB ahead of Seattle. That would be Seattle’s worst stoke of unluckyness. Indy reloads with Luck, Barkley, or Jones, and they go to the playoffs for another 12 years in a row.

sure his style of play will get him flagged from time to time. But when it came to straight up playing CB against Braylon Edwards today, based Edwards’s stat line – Browner won that matchup. Didn’t give an inch, he’s got that veteran CB confidence already.

I’m not sure how much if pissed you guy’s off, but from what I saw, the refs failed to call the biggest penalty of the game: the neck/head hit to Ben Obomanu. I was absolutely furious that the hit wasn’t called. I literally had to leave the room that my television was in. There were plenty of ticky-tacky calls in this game but they didn’t flag the one that truly deserved to be called.

I’m really thankful that he is ok, and was able to return to the game.

The defense played extremely well considering that we had so many 3 and outs. The third quarter demonstrated that when our offense stays on the field, our defense is more able to effectively stop the ball.

As I began writing these comments, one of my initial thoughts was that Tate could be replaced by Baldwin. This has been a theme in the preseason but it isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Tate’s touchdown showed that he is improving.

Yes, we lost the game because of special teams ineptitude but after all the talk off-season about the seahawks running the ball, I was surprised at how pathetic the run game was. There was nothing smash mouth/ nasty about what the hawks did out there.

T-Jax shouldn’t be throwing 37 times a game. His career comp% is not good enough for this kind of a workload.

Was Durham not active for the game?

1. Patched together o-line, bad QB and we were still in it until the end.
2. The defense was actually decent.
The bad:
1. Special teams play – sad that the one thing most people thought would be OK was what ended up costing us
2. SF are still not a good team. We needed this win ‘cos there aren’t a lot of games coming that look more winnable than this
The Ugly:
I carried Ginn on my fantasy teams for two years sure he was going to break-out. Don’t have him this year and he does this……..

I am amazed. The offense is a complete rebuild with young inexperienced players. New offensive coordinator. No off season. First game of the season, on the road, against a pretty good defense.

Going into the game folks here were predicting the team scoring 6 to 12 points.

So the offense takes a half to get going and than in the second half scores 17 which is more that what the veteran offense did last year in Frisco for the whole game (preemptive comment: one TD last year was special teams) and TJ has a better QB rating than Hasselbach did for that game (in week 14) the Hawks could have won the game in the 4th quarter and the forums go apoplectic?

Come on now. It’s growing process and as good as we expected.

I agree with Hawksfever; the game reads much worse in the forum than if you actually watch it.

Hawks did as well as last year in Frisco with a complete turnover with young inexperienced players.