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Originally Posted by Red John
Thing is the defense allows Wilson the luxury of being good not great, as long as he makes 3 or 4 plays when he needs to, either with his legs or arm. He did neither today, but bad games happen. Even Peyton Manning has looked ordinary a couple times this year. Wilson's not a stats machine though, he just usually goes out and makes enough plays to win.
About the D. Carson Palmer made some awful throws today so that's on him more than the D. His mistakes made Arians stay super conservative keeping the ball on the ground making it easy for the Seahawks to load up the box. Frankly Palmer only made two plays all game - the throw on the run on 3rd and 8 and the late TD.
Wouldn't be too worried about Russell and the offense - they had a bad game to the point that they couldn't even make the 2-3 big plays they usually do. That's more of an outlier.
Anyways not sure what the point of this post was, just ramblings. Wouldn't be worried as a Seahawks fan though.
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Yeah, the offense had a bad game, but my point is that they really haven't had a dominant game in a while.
Last year, Seattle beat a similar Arizona team 58-0, the offense was rolling. This after putting up a tonne on the Bills the weak before.
Yes, teams have better defended the read option (ask Kaepernick) but it just looks more and more like Wilson is looking for the perfect text book play he thinks is going to unfold form all his (over?) studying and preperation.
Last year, after they opened the playbook up for him after 4 or 5 weeks, he went out and played football on feel rather than too much thinking. The over thinking or playing the tenancies isn't working this year. In general, he doesn't look as adapatable or willing to adapt to the situation. Less runs today, less using the TE's and Lynch as safety valves, as an example. Getting those first downs and building that momentum counts for a lot within the game dynamics.
Today, it would be two runs from Lynch, then a throw 7-8+ yards down the field into a zone read defense. He almost got picked off two more times than he did.
Last year the defense let Seattle down a few times, especially in the divisonal game, so they went out and spent on the D line and the investment has paid off.
This year, the offense is stunting them, today being the most blatant example. Relying on a big play or a big catch at a key time, which didn't come today, is not a long term solution. They are missing talent due to injury, but Wilson is the one that has to adapt to that and take what the defense gives him.
Don't get me wrong, they have an "easier" team in St. Louis next week to get back on track, and both sides of the ball have played well enough to be afforded this mulligan, but this has to be a big wakeup call where the defense won't always be able to bail out the team.
