Sunday will be a nightmare for the Seahawks. 3 reasons why:

[L-TownCat]

34 minutes ago, fenderbender123 said:

Does anyone realize that the 2012 Seahawks were coming off a 7-9 season and only made it to the playoffs as a Wildcard team that lost in the divisional round? Why does everyone try and insult Seahawk fans by implying that they've only been fans since 2012? At least say 2013 since that's the year we dominated the NFL and won our first Super Bowl. 2012 wasn't any more successful than 2010, 2007, 2006, or 2005, so it's just baffling to me why that year is used to imply that everyone jumped on the Seahawks bandwagon, when there was really no sudden increase of overall success and thus no actual bandwagon.

Well let me see if I can help in your confusion.

The common moniker for the Seahawks fanbase is the 12th man. Correct?

Ok so, when did the Beast Quake happen?  Ah yes, at the end of the 2012 season! 

Panthers fans remember this all too well as we probably had a mini quake down here cheering you guys on. Because fug the Saints.

I digress, the fact you guys are called the 12th man coupled with the "Genesis Moment" of your franchise's success being in the twilight of the 2012 season, folks all across this great land spent hours and hours(more like 10 seconds) trying to find the right name to mock you with.

Thus the 2012th man was born.

Hope that helped ease the confusion.

 

[The Huddler]

russell wilson pisses me the fug off about being a choir boy poser to inflate his image, but i must respect the fact that he has stepped his game up big time and is phenominal when the play breaks down to find the open man. 

 

scrambling for a first down/ short yardage run, i take Cam

 

scramble finding the open guy out of his ass, i take wilson

[fenderbender123]

10 minutes ago, Dunn said:

Hell I was giving you bandwagoner boys an extra year to pad your stats as true 'fans', just trying to help out.  

lol. I appreciate it, man.

 

[fenderbender123]

28 minutes ago, jbeachbum24 said:

No lie before the game I was talking to a friend about how it seems the last few years that in big games against Seattle teams always find the craziest ways to lose to them when they seemingly have them beat. Naturally the Seahawks then win because of a botched snap and a missed chip in. Not taking anything away from their talented team and what they've earned, but man they've gotten some crazy luck up there.

How many more times does Wilson need to make plays like that before people admit it's not luck? Seattle's gotten "lucky" so many times that I just tell everyone that our team was designed and built to be lucky, and therefore we technically aren't.

[MrBubba]

2 hours ago, 15 said:

I honestly believe Seattle's passing attack improved when Graham and Lockette went down. Norman will contain Baldwin to an extent but they line him up in the slot occasionally for a mis match. Tyler Locket will also give us trouble in the slot running quick slants. Kearse always shows up against us and going up against McClain will definitely result in plenty of targets. 

This is why I believe we are in for a shoot out. They will not be able to run so it will be lots of throwing and broken plays with Wilson scrambling. 

Agreed, when Graham went down, Wilson no longer felt the need to look his way on every snap, same is true I believe with absence of Lynch.  Wilson or the OC doesn't worry know about passing the ball, and hurting a RB's feelings.  

[MadHatter]

1 hour ago, Cryolinapanhandlers said:

C'mon guys, you're really stretching things here.

1. The Seahawks have played their best football without Graham and Ricardo Lockette this year.  The feeling around Hawks fans is that Graham is overrated and was having a difficult time adjusting.  He had a few good games before getting hurt but all in all he's not being missed (particularly his aversion to blocking).  Baldwin has had a career year and the Hawks picked up Tyler Lockette who has more than made up for any loss in Ricardo.

2. Don't think for one second that Olsen's big game or any perceived weaknesses in Chancellor's coverage game has been overlooked by anyone - if you don't think they're gameplanning around defending Olsen and he's flying under the radar then that's wishful thinking.  But don't put alot of stock in a Minnesota game where conditions were 30 degrees below freezing (and 50 degrees below freezing after windchill)...those conditions wreck a football game because people simply cannot perform optimally as they would under normal conditions.

3. The Seahawks didn't play one East coast game this year, so how can you use this statistic?  If you want to go by past statistics then go to the Seahawks beating Carolina in Charlotte the last 3 games going to 2012.

You are a .500 team....plain and simple.

You went 9-7 in the regular season.....yes, you damn well know you lost to the Lions and the shitty ref gave you that game. 

You sucked last week.....your total offense was one blown play....and you needed a shank of a 27 yard FG to win.

You were a "laces out" mistake from losing 2 of your last 3.

Thus....you are a .500.....nothing more.

 

[Omega Atrocity]

15 minutes ago, fenderbender123 said:

How many more times does Wilson need to make plays like that before people admit it's not luck? Seattle's gotten "lucky" so many times that I just tell everyone that our team was designed and built to be lucky, and therefore we technically aren't.

You should just accept the fact that your team is lucky to a bullshit degree. Just take the super bowl, everyone remembers the pick on the 1, but the catch the very play before was one of the luckiest things I've ever seen. Minnesota's kicker missed a chip shot, etc. Just accept it, they're ridiculously lucky.

[PeaceHawk]

9 minutes ago, MadHatter said:

You are a .500 team....plain and simple.

You went 9-7 in the regular season.....yes, you damn well know you lost to the Lions and the shitty ref gave you that game. 

You sucked last week.....your total offense was one blown play....and you needed a shank of a 27 yard FG to win.

You were a "laces out" mistake from losing 2 of your last 3.

Thus....you are a .500.....nothing more.

 

Yep, can't deny it Seattle should be a pushover. Just a blip on the way to the NFCC.

 

1 minute ago, Omega Atrocity said:

You should just accept the fact that your team is lucky to a bullshit degree. Just take the super bowl, everyone remembers the pick on the 1, but the catch the very play before was one of the luckiest things I've ever seen. Minnesota's kicker missed a chip shot, etc. Just accept it, they're ridiculously lucky.

As a SEA fan I agree, they somehow get really lucky. It is weird after so many years of being a terrible team when every time we turn around something cool is happening to our guys. Of course to always get lucky that means you have to be close enough in score for it to mean something. So maybe the offense is lucky but the defense is something different.

[CRA]

17 minutes ago, fenderbender123 said:

How many more times does Wilson need to make plays like that before people admit it's not luck? Seattle's gotten "lucky" so many times that I just tell everyone that our team was designed and built to be lucky, and therefore we technically aren't.

Wilson is a very good QB.  But he is a very good QB who has had the ball the bounce his way a crazy amount of times though....

With anything, there will be a point when all that gets evened out.  He will still be a very good QB.

 

 

 

[Jakob]

How fuging lonely must you be to come trash talk on an opposing teams forum. Seriously...what the fug?

[fenderbender123]

3 minutes ago, Jakob said:

How fuging lonely must you be to come trash talk on an opposing teams forum. Seriously...what the fug?

I'm pretty lonely and have no friends in real life. Thanks for hitting me where it really hurts.

[jumpman910]

3 hours ago, 15 said:

I honestly believe Seattle's passing attack improved when Graham and Lockette went down. Norman will contain Baldwin to an extent but they line him up in the slot occasionally for a mis match. Tyler Locket will also give us trouble in the slot running quick slants. Kearse always shows up against us and going up against McClain will definitely result in plenty of targets. 

This is why I believe we are in for a shoot out. They will not be able to run so it will be lots of throwing and broken plays with Wilson scrambling. 

Lmao the first point sounds so misinformed kinda like he made some poo up 

[fenderbender123]

23 minutes ago, Omega Atrocity said:

You should just accept the fact that your team is lucky to a bullshit degree. Just take the super bowl, everyone remembers the pick on the 1, but the catch the very play before was one of the luckiest things I've ever seen. Minnesota's kicker missed a chip shot, etc. Just accept it, they're ridiculously lucky.

I don't really mind being called lucky. I'm pretty sure I've read some pretty detailed articles about how every single Super Bowl winning team had to get "lucky" to either make it to the Super Bowl or to win it. Pittsburgh has made a killing off of it.

Besides, back in the day Seattle was always the team getting unlucky, and I had to accept that, so I don't mind accepting the other side.

[Khyber53]

Let's face it, this will probably be the best game of the playoffs this year. These two teams are the best match up in the NFL and the most likely to create a good, down-to-the-wire game with a fair amount of scoring.

Seattle got hot late in the season as Wilson was able to quit deciding his plays based on the biggest paychecks on the field and start making good football decisions. The defense got better, too, after an embarassing start.

Carolina didn't cool off for the whole season, with the exception of a thumping at the hands of a pissed off Falcons team. The loss was a wake-up call and the team took it seriously. 

The question remains, will Carolina have had enough time to heal up injured players or will Seattle be able to continue its hard-fought trajectory.

My money is on the Panthers. Again.