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Daily Seahawks Podcast: HB Mornings & Real Hawk Talk

Does Running Matter?

Daily Seahawks Podcast: HB Mornings & Real Hawk Talk

Brian Nemhauser

Podcast, Sports, Hawk Blogger, Seahawks, Seattle, Nfl, Hawkblogger, American Football, Football

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Seahawks went toe-to-toe with the Rams in Week 5 but came up just short. Was that a sign of real progress or another wasted opportunity? Brian Nemhauser, Jeff Simmons, Evan Hill, and Nathan Ernst break down the tight loss to Los Angeles, the offensive line, the running game, the overall play of the defense, and prepare Seahawks fans for the upcoming game with the Oakland Raiders in London.

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0:00.0

it feels like they play to their level of competition like and this this feels like a p. Carroll thing

0:05.2

going back several years and I had this conversation on Twitter with several different people but

0:10.4

I mean based on how they played on Sunday they should blow out the Raiders I don't I don't

0:15.5

think that's going to happen it feels like this team under Pete Carroll has always played down to their

0:20.7

competition up to their competition level.

0:23.7

Like, it analyzed like the Bears game versus the freaking Rams game.

0:29.2

These are two different teams completely.

0:31.8

And it's frustrating to see.

0:33.3

I think the thing that frustrates me the most is what you said, Nathan, is the lack of play action in those first two games. That makes no sense to me. Russell Wilson's like one of the best play action quarterbacks in the NFL. And I mean, he's just so good. Like, do it. If they were, if they were listening to analytics and that's why they're run past, they played the game the way they did it in the first couple weeks.

0:55.4

They would have run play action more.

0:58.0

Like, analytics is telling you not to run, but like, one, I don't think they're listening to that at all.

1:02.7

And two, analytics tells you to play action pass.

1:05.9

To me, it's like not even analytics.

1:08.1

It's mind-numbingly, like, basic logic. Like, have you seen

1:12.4

Russell Wilson's highlights on play action? Like, he's just good. Whatever reason,

1:17.9

suddenly, like, Magic Juju infest his spirit. And, you know, he throws receivers open on

1:22.4

60-yard touchdowns. Just do it. Do what you're good at. And they refused to do it the

1:27.2

past the first couple of weeks.

1:28.5

And it was really frustrating, to be quite honest.

1:44.9

Jeff, you look like you were trying to get in there. Well, I just, the strange part about it was the preseason, this is kind of the team they look like all preseason, right? I know. That's what it was just such a shift from what seems so obvious like David Moore like David Moore was getting down the field in the preseason

1:48.5

and making big plays and all of a sudden they decide to use them down the field

1:51.8

and not bring out the corpse of Brandon Marshall five times a game it's just it was

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