MM cancels the last day of involuntary mini camp

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I've changed my mind. I think Macdonald is a bum and he won't be much of a head coach. He's in over his head. Way over.

We're doomed.

Yeah if that clown from the UK says so it must be so. lol

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Rob Staton not so enthusiastic about the hire. He does bring up a point I did. The ravens have a history of defensive excellence, not sure how much of it can be attributed to MM. We will find out

https://youtu.be/MO_r72guPz0?si=rLX5Cl5buz7brq9_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2Dve3B61c

Who are Andrew and nick?

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Rob Staton not so enthusiastic about the hire. He does bring up a point I did. The ravens have a history of defensive excellence, not sure how much of it can be attributed to MM. We will find out

https://youtu.be/MO_r72guPz0?si=rLX5Cl5buz7brq9_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2Dve3B61c

Who are Andrew and nick?

Geniuses.

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And they said Belichick couldn't win without Brady! LOL

https://nypost.com/2024/06/14/sports/bi ... eerleader/

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64 of course
54 sure
44 ok
34 hmmmm
24 Holy shit man! lol

[Donn Beach]

Think it's Michael that does the wondering why Penny over Chubb, here's an answer.

Henderson pointed out that pass-catching ability at running back played a factor in the team drafting Rashaad Penny in the first round over Nick Chubb in the 2018 NFL Draft.

“For much of the pre-draft process – almost all of it – Nick Chubb was their guy,” Henderson said. “Very late in the game they switched over to Rashaad Penny, and a big reason for that was because Brian Schottenheimer, who was entering his first year as the offensive coordinator, had coached Nick Chubb for a season at Georgia when he was the offensive coordinator there, and he had a major misgiving about Chubb’s ability to contribute as a pass catcher and thought he was going to be a two-down guy who’s not going to give you much on third down because he can’t catch the ball well.”

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From the same article which is basically about if Grubb will utilize his running backs more in the passing game than Pete's teams, this about screen passes, something Grubb utilized at the UW.

Co-host Mike Salk asked if the lack of passing to the running back during the Carroll era had to do with running backs needing to stay in to block due to the poor play of the offensive line.

“The other side of that is, when your offensive line is bad, how do you neutralize a pass rush? You have a really good screen game, and we’ve never really seen that consistently in Seattle, either,” Henderson said. “And I know people will say that to be a good screen team, you’ve got to be devoted to being a good screen team because of all the timing and the intricacy of that play. You’ve really got to practice that play a lot and, if you’re practicing that play a whole lot, you’re not doing other things in practice and so maybe you just have to make a decision to be a good screen team, and certainly they have not done that.”

For them to get the new offense installed, particularly if it's going to involve things like more screens will take practice. It will be interesting what they come up with. I could see it being a little rough at times. Pete's teams never seemed to have the offensive line up and running at the beginning of the season, let's see how Mike does. An aspect to changing the offense would be better Oline play.

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Thinking the offensive line is what's most critical to getting the offense going. It won't help to be dealing with the same issues they seem to face season after season. It is interesting the consistency of it, how they have dealt with the offensive line and that doesn't seemed to have changed even with Mike McDonald as coach. It seems very much to be JSs bag

Filtering through the different o-line coaches and players and offensive strategies over the fourteen years Schneider has been with the Seahawks is a mess, but one theme continually appears and reappears season after season through it all. That is the fact that the Seahawks are no stranger to putting one of the youngest, least experienced offensive lines in the league on the field on Sundays. They did it in 2011. They tried to do it in 2012 and 2013 but injuries put more experienced veterans on the field. They did it in 2016 and 2017. And they did it again in 2022 and 2023. It’s been a continual process of playing youth and inexperience on the offensive line across positional coaches and personnel, while the only constants had been head coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider.


Now, however, as the initial frenzy of free agency slows ahead of the draft in April, the constants have been reduced to just one, general manager John Schneider. Meaning when fans look to the roster and see an offensive line with years of documented struggles and plenty of question marks, there is only one place to look, and that is at the man who now has full authority over the roster.

And when the Seahawks once again roll out one of the youngest, least experienced offensive lines in the NFL in 2024, it shouldn’t come as a shock to fans because Schneider has been behind the scenes of the Hawks doing just that for more than a decade. Some will certainly look to move the blame or credit elsewhere, but the reality is that Schneider shared his vision for the offensive line with the media while he was talking with the media at the 2017 NFL Combine, but many chose not to listen. And, seven years later, it appears as though the plan likely remains the same.

https://www.fieldgulls.com/2024/3/18/24 ... -macdonald

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A look at the screen packages Grubb ran at the UW

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/videos/s ... 390021007/

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One of the most baffling things about the back end of the PC era was how our defense got destroyed by screen passes yet our offense could not figure out how to take advantage of it at all.