The unoffcial end to the Seahawks season.
The team played desperate and Hasslebeck gave all he got. Unfortunately, it's not enough anymore, and wasn't enough in the first half when they had Arizona on the ropes.
When the team needed the leadership to pull through in the second half in the biggest game of the year, he was nowhere to be found, tossing passes behind, ahead, over, and short, capping it off with a typical throw into triple coverage.
Win today, like, to their credit, they've showed that they have the talent if they're gotten the ball, and they'd have been a game back of ARI...now 3 games back, and losing the tiebreaker, so essentially 4 games back of Ari.
Done.
Mora can now officially begin the long term QB evaluation, as that is painfully obviously the structural change needed to move the organization ahead. Unfortunatley there is no backup or 3rd stringer that can be better evaluated for potential. Wallace has shown in his 6 yerars that he may make the cut in in Wpg or Ham at best.
Barring some drastic current established QB becoming free in offseason, this has to be done in draft.
An unspectacular final 6 games, for both them and Den (Washington, seriously???) (SEA has their 1st rounder too) would allow them to take a flyer on said QB in addition to a safer hopefully high pick. Getting a better running game will help too (as shown in first half today), but getting/developing a leader on and off the field for the offense and the team in general, is vital to unlock the otherwise decent, and young roster on both sides of the ball.
This is a team that should win the NFC west without much issue, but a broken down QB who believes he's still in the upper echelon on NFL QB's, but instead is throing his arms up, shaking his head, and throwing off his chinstrap as he watches another bad pass fail, and a backup who's picked up his starter's bad habits and lack of direction.
Time for a fresh QB start next year, or the passing of the torch in the next couple years. Mora's new job depends on it for a team like SEA who does/has spent a lot of money on the roster and needs to be better then 6 or so wins in a season and can't wait for Hasselbeck or pay him any loyalty for what he did 4-5 years ago.
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