week 15 (we need lots of help) other games...

[pbmax]

This is your brain on Pete Carroll.





Jon is in the concussion protocol. Pete says not to worry because Russell and Jermaine have both volunteered to punt if Jon's brain is still scrambled.

http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawks-coach-pete-carroll-defends-fake-punt-call-says-team-will-have-to-wait-to-see-if-jon-ryan-can-return-next-week/

[pbmax]

I'll give Pete this, this is how you should approach each game as a coach:

He then elaborated further saying: “We had a tremendous preparation for an opportunity to take that we knew could be like a turnover in the game. If we could get the opportunity we would go for it. It didn’t matter when it happened, we were looking for it the whole night. The opportunity that we took, it gave us a chance to hold onto the football and not give them even the chance to get the ball back. What more could I do to help my team? How it gets perceived and all, that’s what you guys get to talk about when you want to and I think it’s a waste of energy but I understand it. I don’t expect that you can see it from our perspective. I thought it was an excellent demonstration of planning and prep and execution. It worked perfectly, except for the end of it was terrible. But that allowed us to keep the football and it didn’t have anything to do with something with the score or anything, just trying to finish the game as well as we could, in command of it as we were.”

[pbmax]

Even the author of this piece doesn't understand the difference between his results oriented viewpoint and Carroll's process oriented viewpoint:

Special teams have been an especially big factor in the Rams-Seahawks series in recent years, and Los Angeles had tried and failed on a fake punt earlier in the game that handed Seattle a field goal. If Carroll was trying to maybe send a message to the Rams, though, will probably be left to history to figure out.

[Freak Out]

That was a beautiful play until Ryan fucked it up.

[gbgary]

I'll give Pete this, this is how you should approach each game as a coach:

exactly...but if it were me i'd have taken the score into consideration and saved it for another game when i needed it. but that's just me.

That was a beautiful play until Ryan fucked it up.

yup. he'd have had plenty of time to slide and avoid that had he not fumbled it.

the goff hit was his fault too. he's got to be more aware of the situation than he showed.

[pbmax]

exactly...but if it were me i'd have taken the score into consideration and saved it for another game when i needed it. but that's just me.



yup. he'd have had plenty of time to slide and avoid that had he not fumbled it.

the goff hit was his fault too. he's got to be more aware of the situation than he showed.

In retrospect, yes it looks like stopping the call is wiser.

But you ask players to go make impact plays and give them the tools to do so. You ask them to believe you when you tell them a scheme will work and ask them to execute the scheme when they read the keys.

People often talk about how a coach gets players to buy into their plan or program, letting them run this play or other reads like it are one way of doing that.

The play worked beautifully until Ryan somehow lost the handle on the ball.

[ThunderDan]

exactly...but if it were me i'd have taken the score into consideration and saved it for another game when i needed it. but that's just me.

I agree with you gbgary. Los Angeles couldn't move the ball all game and were on the backup QB at the time. The game was out of touch. Sea just tipped their hand on a fake punt that will now be schemed and watched more. The loss on return yards by the team making su a fake punt is going to happen with be made back by Russell Wilson's shitty punts.

[pbmax]

It does bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the botched FG block Zook called versus Seattle.

[Joemailman]

Arrowhead Stadium after they removed the tarp this morning.

[gbgary]

looks like Lambeau back on that fateful day against dal. "Mr. Lombardi's field began to freeze."

[red]

Arrowhead Stadium after they removed the tarp this morning.

that looks painful

and do they even have in field heating that far south?

[Joemailman]

that looks painful

and do they even have in field heating that far south?

Just installed it this year. http://www.chiefs.com/news/article-2...c-fc37ab23a7ee

“We’re going to blow heat underneath the tarp because what happens is the moisture from the ground comes up from the bottom of the tarp, condensates and forms ice,” Hamilton said of the rise in soil temperature from the system. “So we’re going to keep the ice from forming on the bottom side of the tarp, but the unknown is when we pull that tarp off and it’s three or four degrees Sunday morning, it may instantly frost.

“We may have what looks like a frozen field, but it will be is just the blades of grass having frost on them. The soil itself and the root zone itself will be warm.”

Maybe it won't be as bad as it looks.

[pbmax]

It looks like their plan to blow air in to evaporate the moisture under the tarp was slightly under-powered. Worked at each end and not in the middle.

[gbgary]

we need to beat the fuckin' bears ✔
and...

we need these teams to lose:

det ✔
min ✔

sea
phi ✔


ari,
atl,
tb,
was.

[Guiness]

Osweiler benched. Wow did the Texans throw some money away there.

In other news: Ponder warming up for the 49ers!