Postmortem: Seattle v The Real Zombie Oilers
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 1:02 am
Seattle travelled to Music City and came away with a win, despite doing everything in their power to let The Zombie Oilers hang around. Let's do some fun random music references too.
Lets get into the good, the bad and the ugly, because I haven't used that in a hot minute.
The Good: Coming off a difficult loss, an emotionally taxing game against their current biggest rival, the Seahawks went out and grabbed the win. It would've been easy to lose this game because, let's face it, it's hard to get it up for any team that's 1-9, especially coming off that Lambs game. But they sucked it up, and Head(ed) East (like the band, IYKYK). There's Never Been Any Reason why they cannot puts teams away, but they did just enough to be Leavin' on a Jet Plane back to Seattle 8-3.
The Darnold didn't suck! At times he's lethal, but other times, something is just off, like he's anxious. COuld be the 300 pound lineman Breadford is whiffing on, but I'd like to see him be Rock Steady(er). I lioken him to a game manager who doesn't have to carry the team, just don't fuck up.
The Running With the Devil game seems to be gaining steam. Zombie Oilers Dline is no joke, and altought they pressured Darnold all day, the running backs were able to do damage.
The Bad: WTF is with letting teams hang around? I thought Pete Carroll was snown the door? This game was maddening at times. Then offense not onbly dominated, but simultaneously struggled in the Red (by Sammy Hagar!) zone, and was uneven all day, despite JSN having another highlight reel day.
The offense reallt sputters at times, and clock management on that fourth down play was atrocious. Then they didn't convert after blowing a time out. Some sequences, I just don't know WTF is going on, then they explode wiht a big play and I'm all kinds of Dazed and Confused.
The defense was laying wood all day, especially the reserve linebackers, but also, Cam Ward was ballin' out. I like Ward, so that's not a Bad Moon Risin', normally. Maybe the new guys weren't in synch with the rest. Overall they shut the ZO's run game down, but the street ball Cam was making them pay.
Why are we not incorporating Shaheed more? Maybe The Darnold needs to look off of JSN occasionally and find him. That is an asset just waiting to be used. Hopefully it's justb a matetr of time, because he is thye exact piece I wanted them to add to take heat off JSN, and so far, outside of the return game, it's been slim pickins.
The Ugly. JFC with the penalties. You train. You lift. You obsess on film. You kill it in HIgh School. You impress in college. You make it to the Pro's. Then you line up off side. How many offsides penalties did we have? These are self inflicted wounds.
Seattle's gotta work on the Red Zone offense - the struggles are real - and baffling. The offense needs to Rhythm (Of the NIght) it up and look more in sync. Pay attention to the clock. These are all small matters, this is a top 10 team in the league, but after watching today's game, they ain't taking down the Lambs like this. The defense will bounce back, I think, but we are gonna live and die by the offense who appears to swim in elite waters, but then out of nowhere they look like they're drowning. That unit needs to mature and right f'n quick if they want to dethrone the Lambs.
Now man up and give Minnesota nice Viking Funeral on the Puget Sound next week. They come from the land of the ice and snow, from what I hear. Anyway, dial down the idiot penalties, self inflicted wounds, and get the offense dialed in. The talent is there - we've seen it.
Again, a shitty game, but we took home the win. After last weeks game, it's good just to get back in the win column.
Now it's Time For Me to Fly and go root my ass off for Baker and Co. to punk the Lambs.
My effort on this column today matches Seattle's - up and down, underwhelming, mildly amusing at times, but it's finished and that's a win.
Go hawks...
Lets get into the good, the bad and the ugly, because I haven't used that in a hot minute.
The Good: Coming off a difficult loss, an emotionally taxing game against their current biggest rival, the Seahawks went out and grabbed the win. It would've been easy to lose this game because, let's face it, it's hard to get it up for any team that's 1-9, especially coming off that Lambs game. But they sucked it up, and Head(ed) East (like the band, IYKYK). There's Never Been Any Reason why they cannot puts teams away, but they did just enough to be Leavin' on a Jet Plane back to Seattle 8-3.
The Darnold didn't suck! At times he's lethal, but other times, something is just off, like he's anxious. COuld be the 300 pound lineman Breadford is whiffing on, but I'd like to see him be Rock Steady(er). I lioken him to a game manager who doesn't have to carry the team, just don't fuck up.
The Running With the Devil game seems to be gaining steam. Zombie Oilers Dline is no joke, and altought they pressured Darnold all day, the running backs were able to do damage.
The Bad: WTF is with letting teams hang around? I thought Pete Carroll was snown the door? This game was maddening at times. Then offense not onbly dominated, but simultaneously struggled in the Red (by Sammy Hagar!) zone, and was uneven all day, despite JSN having another highlight reel day.
The offense reallt sputters at times, and clock management on that fourth down play was atrocious. Then they didn't convert after blowing a time out. Some sequences, I just don't know WTF is going on, then they explode wiht a big play and I'm all kinds of Dazed and Confused.
The defense was laying wood all day, especially the reserve linebackers, but also, Cam Ward was ballin' out. I like Ward, so that's not a Bad Moon Risin', normally. Maybe the new guys weren't in synch with the rest. Overall they shut the ZO's run game down, but the street ball Cam was making them pay.
Why are we not incorporating Shaheed more? Maybe The Darnold needs to look off of JSN occasionally and find him. That is an asset just waiting to be used. Hopefully it's justb a matetr of time, because he is thye exact piece I wanted them to add to take heat off JSN, and so far, outside of the return game, it's been slim pickins.
The Ugly. JFC with the penalties. You train. You lift. You obsess on film. You kill it in HIgh School. You impress in college. You make it to the Pro's. Then you line up off side. How many offsides penalties did we have? These are self inflicted wounds.
Seattle's gotta work on the Red Zone offense - the struggles are real - and baffling. The offense needs to Rhythm (Of the NIght) it up and look more in sync. Pay attention to the clock. These are all small matters, this is a top 10 team in the league, but after watching today's game, they ain't taking down the Lambs like this. The defense will bounce back, I think, but we are gonna live and die by the offense who appears to swim in elite waters, but then out of nowhere they look like they're drowning. That unit needs to mature and right f'n quick if they want to dethrone the Lambs.
Now man up and give Minnesota nice Viking Funeral on the Puget Sound next week. They come from the land of the ice and snow, from what I hear. Anyway, dial down the idiot penalties, self inflicted wounds, and get the offense dialed in. The talent is there - we've seen it.
Again, a shitty game, but we took home the win. After last weeks game, it's good just to get back in the win column.
Now it's Time For Me to Fly and go root my ass off for Baker and Co. to punk the Lambs.
My effort on this column today matches Seattle's - up and down, underwhelming, mildly amusing at times, but it's finished and that's a win.
Go hawks...
