Welcome to the day after thread where it's time to 'tell the truth' about the game as Pete would say.
What went well?
What went bad?
What should be the focus heading into next season?
Please be respectful of other fans opinions, this thread is intended to be for serious discussion.
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That game is a preview of what would happen in Wild Card weekend if we make the playoffs.
We’re a firm mid tier. Definitely Top 20. Top 15 if we play to our potential. Top 10 on a good day. Never Top 5.
I think we got exposed unfortunately…
we are an okay, not great team. Riding high on some wins from not great teams. How we respond to this upcoming Vikings game will say a lot about this team.
Also, being at the game.. the 12’s need to show out. This is my second prime time game this season where the opposing team was in full force and Seattle fans have been content with making money off their tickets. Weird how times have changed when you would see the “occasional opposing fan” where now it’s chunks of opposing fans in sections.
What went well? Defense adjusted and absolutely shut down the GB run going into the second half
What needs to improve? Tackling, dear god some of the whiffs in the first half are like people missing the basics
What do we need? people to shut up about starting howell and saying grubb sucks when 90% of our offensive problems lay at John Schneider’s feet for failing to build an even PASSABLE O-line and we should be thankful that geno is as good as he is with this poor O-line
tl;dr Geno is our guy through the ’26 draft, dont even sniff at drafting a QB this next draft and hard focus on O-line
Vikings are a better team than Green Bay, yes, but I would rather play Vikings on a 6 day rest than the Packers on a 10 day rest. …As long as we have Geno.
Like it or not, i think we beat the packers if Geno was in, or at least threaten this game into 3 point territory. Hindsight 50/50 but Geno and grubb looked to have figured out GB in the 2nd half especially towards the middle of the third, then Geno gets hurt and Sam Howell can’t throw for his life.
Defense definitely had the packers where they wanted them, much better team in the second but of course losing Geno basically sealed it
This team is mid as fuck and we’re lucky the NFC West is in a down year or we’d already be looking at draft positioning.
Also after this season I am no longer defending this fanbase from the accusation that the Seahawks fanbase is primarily a bunch of bandwagon fans that only follow the team when they’re good. Because that’s exactly what this fanbase is as evidenced by the fact opposing teams take over our stadium on a weekly basis and all I hear from our fanbase about it is how we should improve and then MAYBE they’ll go to a game.
What happened to our corners ? Seriously Woolen used to be top tier now he’s invisible. Jordan Love was like 11/11 last night and 90% of his passes were to wide open recievers. Our coverage blew. Terribly. Low key I dunno how many people wanna continue this John “F tier O-Line” Schnieder train but I want off it. No idea how Pete somehow got sent packing but his bum ass was allowed to stay. It’s been 10 years of having one of the worst O-Lines in football. When we won the superbowl we had the highest paid O-Line in the league. Hmmm… Weird. Grubb just doesn’t seem to be able to get anything done. Whether it’s the O-line fine then more blame to Schnieder. I don’t know many QBs that would survive behind this line. At the same time Genos pocket presence is terrible. We don’t roll out. We don’t create space. We literally have a sitting duck for them to sack. I dunno. This offensive scheme does not seem impressive or prepared at all. Our first half offense was embarrassing. Game was a wash once Howell went in but all they called was pass plays for a Rookie QB ? Makes no sense. Our season is over at this point. Maybe we limp into the playoffs with a last place seed but everyone watching this team knows we are going no where. Which is fine, first year head coach OC blah blah blah. But anyone watching this team knows we are not just “One or two pieces” from being a contender. There’s an ocean between us and the bills lions greenbay and any other legit contender. I really think it’s time to just rebuild fully. Go hard for a good defense and O-Line and then install a new QB to build the team around. Paying Geno 40 mil + a year is an awful awful move and will only guarantee we are stuck in mediocrity.
I did not watch the game but what happened to Olu? Did his absence decrease the O-line’s performance?
This is not a Pete apology comment but he always had the team ready to go for prime time, even when the talent level was low. This is McD’s third prime time game where the team looked like they forgot they had a game to play and showed up late. McD has to figure out where his game prep is failing, particularly in big moments, because winning big moments is how you get to and through the playoffs.
OTOH if you give McD a few series to analyze he clearly knows how to adjust. I think everyone was hoping for Belichickian mastery of opposing offensive tendencies but he is still mid tier.
The on field product is unwatchable vs contending teams, the hawks were never really in this one. The best win of the season at this point is Denver as measured by the current playoff picture.
Charbonnet’s meager stats came mostly on two runs but I am not sure how you justify having only 8 carries, especially given the QB situation. The seahawks went entire drives without running the ball in the second half. Grubb needs to take a claritin or something that will help with his run game allergy. Hard to imagine a scenario where Brian Flores’ defense doesn’t feast on this offense next sunday.
I don’t understand what grubb is doing.
Sometimes it looks like something has clicked and he’s figured something out and the next game he just abandons it.
Why didn’t we try pulled lineman runs? It worked swimmingly against Arizona and the one time they tried it yesterday they scored.
Also, Howell sucks.