Postmortem - Seattle v Twin City Cemetary Club

[trharder]

We saw what it looks like when The Darnold is pressured by a good D when we played the Rams. We will likely have to beat
the Rams twice to progress in the playoffs. And the 49ers are pissed I even wrote that, and they should be.
Those are the "mythical teams" I'm concerned with. Do we need others?

It's going to get real after the Falcons game. I know full well The Darnold is our only hope. I'm not butt hurt about that.
I'm glad it's him and not Geno. The conservative mode is okay I guess when you have the lead and the D is playing lights
out, but we saw what happened when we fall behind in the Rams game. I will love to eat crow if I'm wrong and the
offense steps up when needed.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

The Seahawks' SOS has been one of the easiest so far. I think the offensive rankings will continue to drop.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/fpi

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Maybe the O Line wasn't so bad, particularly in Pass Pro?

Interestingly, some of the analytic numbers make it more challenging to assess blame besides just saying the Vikings overwhelmed the Seahawks’ line with all of their blitzes.

According to Pro Football Focus, Seahawks blockers were assessed as giving up eight pressures in 30 dropbacks.

That’s not much different from last week against Tennessee, when the Seahawks gave up 10 on 29.

Three starting O-line all had above-average pass blocking grades — left tackle Charles Cross (81.0), right guard Anthony Bradford (80.2), and center Olu Oluwatimi (76.6). Right tackle Abe Lucas had an average grade of 65.4. The only below average grade went to left guard Grey Zabel at 42.8.

The run-blocking grades were a bit different — Lucas led at 79.2. But he was the only starting lineman with even an average run blocking grade. The rest — Oluwatimi (55.4), Cross (50.6), Zabel (49.2) and Bradford (38.6).

PFF put much of its blame on Sam Darnold, who got his worst grade of the year at 37.9, below even the four-interception game two weeks ago against the Rams, which was 39.2.

PFF docked Darnold significantly for the two fumbles while stating that for the only the second time all season he did not record a “big time throw,” which PFF defines as executing a “high-difficulty, high-value pass.”

Darnold had a season-high four passes batted down at the line of scrimmage — he’d had only seven before Sunday. His overall passing grade of 37.4 was his lowest of the season.

Darnold had a bad day. Not the first time the Vikings and Flores devised a damn good scheme against one of their ex QBs. Did the same thing to Cousins last year. They are a good defense that is very well coached.

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I haven't seen the video, but it seemed Bradford failed to shift when the DL he was lined up against dropped back and a LB blitzed. Instead he just ran at the defender. Didn't FOX show him doing that on the Darnold lost fumble sack play? Apparently PFF doesn't grade decision making.

[douche]

The Seahawks' SOS has been one of the easiest so far. I think the offensive rankings will continue to drop.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/fpi

That might help to explain the Patriot's W-L record. SEA's SOS is 22, Pats are sitting at 30.

[D-train]

We saw what it looks like when The Darnold is pressured by a good D when we played the Rams. We will likely have to beat
the Rams twice to progress in the playoffs. And the 49ers are pissed I even wrote that, and they should be.
Those are the "mythical teams" I'm concerned with. Do we need others?

It's going to get real after the Falcons game. I know full well The Darnold is our only hope. I'm not butt hurt about that.
I'm glad it's him and not Geno. The conservative mode is okay I guess when you have the lead and the D is playing lights
out, but we saw what happened when we fall behind in the Rams game. I will love to eat crow if I'm wrong and the
offense steps up when needed.

Rams got up 14-3 due to 2 of Sam's picks and then we outscored them 16-7 for the rest of the game despite 2 more picks.

[Michael K.]

This place cracks me up. The 49ers are 20th in the NFL in total defense. We looked like absolute shit on offense against them, and anyone that said so was told to relax. Destroy the Vikings who are 10th in total defense and the sky is falling!

I'm done with this. I'll leave you all with some famous words. "Hello! You play to win the game!"

[Sibelius Hindemith]

The 49ers had Bosa and Warner in that game along with some other guys that got injured later.

[trharder]

This place cracks me up. The 49ers are 20th in the NFL in total defense. We looked like absolute shit on offense against them, and anyone that said so was told to relax. Destroy the Vikings who are 10th in total defense and the sky is falling!
I'm done with this. I'll leave you all with some famous words. "Hello! You play to win the game!"

You were wrong back then. Thanks for the reminder. No one said the sky is falling now. Hyperbole.

took place on October 30, 2002, after the Jets had fallen to 1–5 following a loss to the Cleveland Browns.The exact question that triggered Herm Edwards’ rant came from New York Daily News reporter Rich Cimini. The question was along the lines of:“With the way things are going, do you ever get the sense that some of the players have accepted the fact that this just might not be their year?”
Herm immediately interrupted and launched into the now-immortal response:“Hello? You play to win the game! … You don’t play it to just play it…”

[Michael K.]

I wasn't wrong. We win if we even make an effort to play offense. People calling for Milroe now, and you think that's rational? Jesus H. Christ. Thanks for the reminder? Fuck off.

[Michael K.]

One week we win 26 to 0 and the guys screaming about shitty offense and calling for Milroe are rational. Week one the guy that after 12 games leads the entire fucking league in yards per attempt? He has 88 yards passing inside the two minute warning. And I was irrational for thinking we shouldn't have done that....IN A GAME WE LOST.

Again. Fuck off.