Post Your Hawk: Week 2

Pittsburgh is a power running team and I like Seattle’s D to hold them under 100 yards. I also like Seattle’s chances for holding Rothlisburger to under 180 yd passing and limiting them to only a couple scores. However, I expect Pittsburgh’s D to have equal success stuffing Seattle’s O. Low scoring game that will hinge on a couple big plays, including special teams, but in the end the Hawks stun Pittsburgh 16-13. MVP: Kam Chancellor with a pick, 7 tackles including two for loss.

He justifies the week-long Polamalu comparison hype. Agree with diehard that run game will be stuffed, so Roethlisburger takes shots and Earl ends up with 2 picks and double digit tackles.
Steelers 24-13

I think it’s Red Bryant. He should be facing rookie RT Marcus Gilbert most of the time. Gilbert matches him in listed size & height, now, but Red’s pretty quick for his size. He’s not explosive enough off the snap but he can generate a lot of power if he can get a step forward. If Gilbert gives him too much room to play, Red could help in the run game, could help collapse the pocket and get Roethlisberger on the move.

Where Ben can be lethal, unfortunately, but Bradley’s been stressing assignment to the safeties who have played well. And Red doesn’t get free much but once he does he can move deceptively fast and has the power to bring down Ben as well. Steelers might then keep the TE in. If that happens that’s a positive impact on multiple levels. Of course everyone else else has to play their part, but Red Bryant could transform this from being a slaughter to a defensive struggle where turnovers and (eek!) special teams can tip the scales.

I think PC will game plan heavily for dump offs against the blitz. Forsett might be a good call in this situation, as well, but I’m saying Miller gets 5 catches for 55 yards and a TD.

fifteen pancake blocks, none of which includes Okung’s ankles.

Kam Chancellor with forced fumble and Seahawks still lose 26-17.

This will be the largest of the Sehawks statistical numbers. (Aside from yards allowed) The Hawks will have plenty opportuinities to return kickoffs with Pittsburgh kickng 5 field Goals. Steelers 29-10.

Unfortunately, those tackles will be because he is consistently outmatched by his assignments.

He does pull in an INT and runs it back 30 yards to set up a field goal.

Seahawks lose 30 – 13.

1 INT 7 tackles 1 FF. Pittsburgh wins by attrition, 21-6.

Steelers 41 Seahawks 3

After TJ leaves the game with a ruptured spleen, Cholly leads a valiant comeback effort that falls short. Waaay short.

Stealers 32 Seahawks 16.

He will have 10 TK’s 3 TFL 1sack and 3 personal fouls.

he will be all over the field. He will have 7 tackles, no int. In a losing defensive effort, more people whine on the game thread that the season is over. Seahawks lose 37-14.

… the 1938 Cleveland Rams.

3 sacks.

Seahawks win 20 – 10.

Mike Williams, 6 catches 84 yards, 1 crucial drop

5 Receptions for 64 yards and a TD

And his longest punt return will be 17 yards

pick six, two ints total

O goes nowhere… Hawk is ET himself, showing us a glimpse of his Polamalu-esque potential with 7 tackles.

Jennings’ absence from the team paralyzes Rothlisburger, who is now unable to immediately read the mismatch pre-snap. This indecision causes him to constantly hold the ball in the pocket, leading to 5 sacks from Mebane, Clemons and Branch, as well as one INT to Thomas. Unable to pass effectively, the Steelers are forced to run Mendenhall over and over against the Seattle DL to no avail.

Unfortunately, the Seahawks offense proves equally inept, with only 165 yards of total offense on the day. The score is tied nil-nil going into overtime. Pittsburgh receives and drives the ball to the Seattle 30, successfully kicking the apparent game-winning field goal. In a most confusing decision, however, referee Bill Leavy grants Seattle possession, assuming the game is being played under the playoff Modified Sudden Death rules. Jackson proceeds to throw a pick-6 to Bryant McFadden on the first play, leading to the first 10-0 overtime score in NFL history.

The Ravens will disguise themselves as the Seahawks in order to once again humiliate their divisional foes. Sporting a fake beard and wig, Joe “Charlie Whitehurst” Flacco will throw for 3 TDs (Tarvaris Jackson would normally be considered “conspicuously absent,” but no one will actually notice and he will drift into a career in the fast-food industry). Haloti Ngata, wearing #79, will shut down the running game and, after a fumble and subsequent dogpile, will be suspected of eating Rashard Mendenhall.

The Steelers, being dunderheads in general, will not notice that they are playing their longtime rivals, and after losing to the “Seahawks” 34-3, will retire en masse. Deprived of a win against Seattle, and the loss of their team, the citizens of Pittsburgh will go mad, secede from the U.S. and declare Jerome Bettis to be their God-King. A decade later, wracked by poverty, the city-state will sell itself to Paul Allen for $1.

2 sacks.

Steelers win in an unwatchable rout 38-7

but he’ll continue to do what he does best: sealing the edge with his massive size. Big Ben still beats us with his arm, though. Steelers 24-3.

5 catches for 75 yards.
Hawks still lose though 34-13

because there’s just no way the Seahawks are going to lose this game

Obomanu with a TD and 45 yards, 4 catches.

Steelers 35-7

Seahawks 10
Stealers 33

Hawks lose 27-6

6 catches, 75 Yards, 2 TDs

Seahawks 24 Stealers 21

Inexplicably figures it out this week with a little bit better blocking. He throws for just north of 300 yards with two TDs and only one pick that goes for limited damage. The D shows up and the Steelers look old again and the Hawks steal one 17 – 14.

I’ll take ET, Kam, and Mebane with 9, 7, and 5 tackles respectively, with 4 for a loss between the three of them.

87yds, 2 touchdowns. Hawks lose 14-31.

Bounces back with a respectable 82 yards rushing, 24 yards receiving, and 2 rushing TD’s.

Hawks – 24
Steelers – 21

I think PC gets him involved this week, 65 yards and a TD.
SEA – 13
PIT- 24
I hope I’m wrong though and Seattle pulls a shocker.

One real bitch of a game Hawks – 13 Steelers – 30

That’s all we get. Thank God for fantasy football and NFL RedZone.

Steelers 41 – Seahawks 7