Breaking: Hawks trade for a WR

[Sibelius Hindemith]

I'd've used that 6th rounder and thrown in a backup player if necessary for a rental OG in a heartbeat.
The Chargers got Penning for a 6th rounder...

[Michael K.]

The Seahawks have allowed 1.1 sacks per game. Only Denver has allowed fewer at 1.0. Again, seeing a low light video is one thing, but looking at the overall is another. My guess is they didn't see a need to improve an O Line that allows one sack a game, and three of those came at Arizona.

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/q ... d-per-game

[Donn Beach]

I'd've used that 6th rounder and thrown in a backup player if necessary for a rental OG in a heartbeat.
The Chargers got Penning for a 6th rounder...

Yeah, practically the chargers entire offensive line has been dealing with injuries. In my mind it's not worth it for the seahawks. The possible improvement is too incremental for losing a draft pick, possibly not rushing a pass or so a game

[Donn Beach]

The Seahawks have allowed 1.1 sacks per game. Only Denver has allowed fewer at 1.0. Again, seeing a low light video is one thing, but looking at the overall is another. My guess is they didn't see a need to improve an O Line that allows one sack a game, and three of those came at Arizona.

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/q ... d-per-game

Yeah, it's a solution chasing a problem. It's a reasonable solution if there was a problem to be solved. There isn't a problem since they aren't giving up sacks to begin with

[Pharmabro]

[douche]

After watching video of Bradford any reasonable person would have to conclude that he had no grasp of the playcalls or understanding of what his teammates were doing OR he must be utterly lacking in the physical tools to play the position.

To be fair, cherry picking is easy. The video of Bradford, while woefully inept, is probably not the bigger picture. As D-train stated, all of those plays were run plays. But yeah, that video is hard to watch. If anyone has shown it to Bradford, he probably doesn't like it either.

[Michael K.]

Obviously, I agree that it is fair to be critical of the organization, when warranted. But this O Line has given up 9 sacks in 8 games, and 3 of those were against Arizona. That's pretty fucking good. Sure, the run game could be better, but being critical that they didn't upgrade from Bradford, regardless of the cost? Well, again, it's like complaining at the baseball trade deadline because you did everything but add long relief or a 9 hitter.

I hammered on JS all off season about his bullshit O Lines, and the belief that all it would take is new coaches and Zabel. Well? The O Line has performed light years better. Didn't we say for ever that even a pedestrian O Line would be a big improvement? I just find it difficult to hammer on the organization because they have one below average O Lineman and they didn't just go out and fix that. And who know? Maybe if they didn't have to trade away two picks for a WR because we have like one healthy WR on the team right now? They would have.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

After watching video of Bradford any reasonable person would have to conclude that he had no grasp of the playcalls or understanding of what his teammates were doing OR he must be utterly lacking in the physical tools to play the position.

To be fair, cherry picking is easy. The video of Bradford, while woefully inept, is probably not the bigger picture. As D-train stated, all of those plays were run plays. But yeah, that video is hard to watch. If anyone has shown it to Bradford, he probably doesn't like it either.

D-train said the gaffes all seemed to come on run plays (which may be true), but there were definitely some pass plays in the video where he was badly overmatched skill-wise. Watch it again.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Obviously, I agree that it is fair to be critical of the organization, when warranted. But this O Line has given up 9 sacks in 8 games, and 3 of those were against Arizona. That's pretty fucking good. Sure, the run game could be better, but being critical that they didn't upgrade from Bradford, regardless of the cost? Well, again, it's like complaining at the baseball trade deadline because you did everything but add long relief or a 9 hitter.

I hammered on JS all off season about his bullshit O Lines, and the belief that all it would take is new coaches and Zabel. Well? The O Line has performed light years better. Didn't we say for ever that even a pedestrian O Line would be a big improvement? I just find it difficult to hammer on the organization because they have one below average O Lineman and they didn't just go out and fix that. And who know? Maybe if they didn't have to trade away two picks for a WR because we have like one healthy WR on the team right now? They would have.

You're giving too much credit to the O line for the sack numbers and not enough credit to Darnold and the offensive coaches.

[Michael K.]

You're giving too much credit to the O line for the sack numbers and not enough credit to Darnold and the offensive coaches.

Why does that matter? Why mess with what is working? Sorry, I think you are putting WAY to much into a video of some plays where Bradford looks lost. It's week 9....how many plays is that guy involved in versus how many are on that tape that everyone is up in arms about?

Again, be critical, fine....but does it really feel like this organization right now doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt? I am usually the most critical person in here, and I am still not sold on JS. But I sure have a hard tome being upset about anything right now. After watching the first 58 plus minutes of offense against the Niners I'd have said it's more likely we are 2 and 6 right now, not 6 and 2.

It would have been great to add someone better than Bradford, but again....looking at the WR injuries right now? Give me Shaheed.