This is a guest post by Curtis Allen…
The Seahawks are losing their grip on this season. Any chance of a shot at the NFC West title will be determined Sunday. If they cannot pull off the upset, it is over. They will be four games behind San Francisco with four games left to play in the season, with the Niners holding the tiebreaker by virtue of a sweep.
At this point, even a wildcard spot seems an optimistic projection. For that to be a reality, the Seahawks will need to put in a far better game than they did two weeks ago. Even in a losing effort, this team can instill some hope that this season is somewhat salvageable.
With the two games against the same opponent so close, there is no reason to do a full Watch Points write up. You can read what I wrote here since those points were as vital as any to the outcome of the game.
What was particularly frustrating, is the Seahawks even turn in a middle of the road performance in these categories in Week 12 and this game is far more competitive.
Play Solid, Fundamental Football
Limit the Number of Explosive Runs by the Niners (especially McCaffrey)
This concern sealed their fate as much as any. Pete Carroll came out and said they did not practice the guys hard enough in the leadup to this game, and you could absolutely see it. How does a 10+ year coach not have a handle on his team and understand the mechanics of preparation for a Thursday game?
The offense completely wasted a short field on their first possession and it went downhill from there. Once again, they focused heavily on the pass. I wrote why that was a mistake:
Abandoning the ground game in favor of the pass will give the Niner defense all the opportunities they need to make this game easy for them.
And so it was.
Geno Smith was sacked six times, Michael Dickson had a five-punt night and the Seahawks lost the time of possession battle by 11 minutes, which did the defense no favors.
And neither did the defense do themselves any favors. The tackling was atrocious.
Players like Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and Christian McCaffrey force you to bring them down. A mauling of the Giants in Week Three featured these three racking up seven broken tackles. They challenged the Giants defense to take them down and they couldn’t.
Can the Seahawks?
They could not.
The Niners had six explosive runs and two more runs that might as well have been explosive.
McCaffrey’s eight-yard touchdown run was a perfect encapsulation of the night:
NO ONE DOES IT LIKE CMC.
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He was bottled up at about the 12, changed course and found a couple of yards of daylight, was contacted at the eight and simply fought his way into the end zone, taking Quandre Diggs along for the ride.
Jason Myers missed a very makeable field goal try at the end of the half that would have given them some momentum.
Limit Turnovers and Take the Ball Away from Them
They lost the turnover battle 2-1.
Geno Smith threw one interception but had several of his now-infamous ‘turnover worthy plays’ with poor decision-making.
Deejay Dallas muffed a punt and decided to try and pick the ball up to run with it instead of simply falling on it. It did not work.
Think of this – yes, the Niners were outplaying the Seahawks. But Dallas does not have that turnover, San Francisco does not get a field goal to take a 24-3 lead. The Seahawks have the same drive and Myers makes his field goal try and now it is 21-6 at the half. The exact same third quarter we saw would end with it being 21-16.
As poorly as the team played, without a couple of those key plays they are far closer in this game than they actually were.
*****
This game may actually be the true pivot point of the season and perhaps future seasons.
A loss means that for the first time in Pete Carroll’s Seahawks history, they will have lost four games in a row. Based on the way they are losing – with coaching mistakes aplenty – it could and should trigger a full review of his job status going forward.
Compound that with this week’s media disaster involving Jamal Adams, there is a troublesome black cloud of fog that is hovering around this team.
Geno Smith is a gametime decision. There are myriad of ways this could play out. He could play, and play well. He could play and play poorly. The same could be said for Drew Lock. There could be far-reaching implications for the rest of the season and into 2024 based on the outcome of this game. How?
A couple of Geno Smith 2024 contract notes to keep in mind: most of his escalators are now out of reach, save for one: win 10 games or reach the playoffs with Geno playing 80% of the team’s snaps. He has played every snap except a few in the Giants game and a few in the Rams game. Basically, he will need to play every snap in this game and the next game against the Eagles to reach the 80% threshold.
If Geno Smith ends the season on Injured Reserve, that guarantees his $12.7 million 2024 salary. It is only guaranteed for injury. Obviously, Geno finishing the season in a way that he can pass a physical gives the Seahawks more options in 2024.
Thank you for your time and effort as always cha. The beauty for Pete is if Geno can’t go he has the ready-made excuse of not having his starting quarterback. Never mind that the offense has played poorly most of the year.
Please just resign while you have some dignity left Pete.
It’s not just Pete my friend….
It’s the wall of noise and the truthi-ness of the media and its adjacent membership. In no order things I’ve heard this year as folks refuse to just see it for what it is:
1. Geno Smith is one of the most pressured qbs in the league. What does that even mean? To hear you think he’s getting sacked at a record pace. Turns out he’s not. And in fact of qualifying qbs he’s dead in the center at 27 sacks with the high being howell in the 50’s and the low being 20-21. So we’re just saying words and making excuses.
2. Seattle can’t run. But Lewis plus Bradford are run blockers plus Will Dissly and the team is passing a whopping 62% of plays. Including the second loss to the Rams where we had the lead. Another excuse.
3. Team is young and it’s a process. But I’ve lined out how we are actually old at starters. Qb, DL, MLB, 1/2 the starting safeties. Starting WR. Sure when you count dareke young who doesn’t count then we are young. But not when we take the field this afternoon. Additionally fant, parkinson, brooks are young but…FA’s. Witherspoon, Woolen, Mafe. Yeah there’s some great young pieces. But a ton of old, bloated, expensive, dead weight.
4. We are further along then we thought we’d be after trading Wilson. Now this one is tricky. In some ways it feels right. Playoffs. 9 wins. On the other hand….Houston Texans. Who might win their division and get up to 11-12 games this year. So a team with a new coach and qb and a DROY candidate can flip it around in one year. But we, well we are just in a process.
What sticks to me is that the two situations aren’t that far apart. We’ve had two top ten picks in two years. We also have a DROY candidate. Which makes back to back years with that ( incredible really). We’ve had extra second rounders like they have. They moved off a franchise-level qb. So did we.
They are rolling. And we are hoping that the train stays on the tracks. If we get to 5 straight losses where does that stop? Titans? AZ…I think that’s a loss. We struggled when they had no running back and Dobbs. I think by then they will “want it more.” Stealers…at that point who has their team up and what are the stakes? How about this as a scenario….there’s no stakes and both teams are out by then?
We learnt everything we needed to know this week when Carroll was asked about Adam’s’ tweet in the penultimate minute of an 18 minute presser, with the question coming five minutes after someone asked how Adams was playing.
And then zero questions to Carroll on Friday about it after Adams doubled down.
The team might as well just release a slightly more detailed injury report and do away with press conferences.
Like jaw jacking after giving up seven yards I wish my coach would just give standard statements and stop all the length sit downs like we’re all friends here during this slide.
It’s an entirely unserious operation.
Just in case your wonder why the team is lacking identity
Great work as always, cha. The time, effort, and insight you give to the community is much appreciated.
Seattle should be coming into this game with desperation. With San Francisco coming off a huge game last week, the Seahawks’ best hope might be to catch the 49ers letting down a bit. It is tempting to say that Seattle needs this more, but I can’t convince myself that it is true.
Seattle is a shell of what it once was. I don’t believe it will do any good for the franchise to feed the Groundhog Day machine with a suddenly frisky end to the year. The core is rotten, and I believe that is manifesting in the on the field product.
SF hasn’t won a Super Bowl in decades and can’t afford to let down at home against a crumbling Seattle team, especially when competing for home field advantage.
I never thought the wine and cheese crowd in Santa Clara would replace Seattle as the toughest venue in the division, but SF is bucking the current trend of the eroding home field advantage.
Every game day for many years for me has been anxiety riddled and conflicted. Today is no different.
I had low key hoped that they or someone we could catch with a let down game.
Unfortunately niners then the eagles in a very tight NFC race can I’ll afford to sleep on Seattle.
Big Mike and I think they may start slow after Philly but I worry that we will have pulled out all the tricks for Dallas.
The wine and cheese crowd made me smile. I love my home town. If it wasn’t comically expensive I’d probably still be there. But I’d guess the amount of people with a mini wine fridge in their house who can also afford tickets to Lumen field is probably 1:1 with niners fans.
Oh yeah. It was a cheap shot. The Faithful are one of the best fan bases in the league. (And have the best nickname. So much better than The 12s.) Really I am just sad at the state of Seattle’s once top of the league HFA.
As for having pulled out the kitchen sink for Dallas, it was my first reaction to that game and I will be surprised if the Niners make the same mistakes Dallas did.
Entirely possible. The “they shot their wad” syndrome eh?
That used to be me but I just don’t care anymore and won’t again until Pete Carroll is gone because it won’t change until he is. The media can coddle him like Rob referred to up above but I’m not fooled. Haven’t been for the last 5 or so years.
The reporter apologizing to mayor Pete for describing the team as “not well…”
Bleeping embarrassing.
Who was the reporter that apologized lol Did he actually do that?
I saw that QB Sean Mannion was elevated to the roster. Doing this does indicate that Geno may not play today, as Curtis said in this article. I believe a lot of us would like to see Lock get extended playing time. It would be nice to see if Lock is a viable backup QB going forward. I suspect that we already know that he isn’t the QBOTF.
I really hope Lock gets the start and was treated like the starter during the week. I’m with you that I dont hold hopes that he’ll come in and be the qbotf but he’s never really gotten a chance in Seattle and Geno clearly isn’t him, so why aren’t we at least looking at Lock. In very limited sample sizes I’ve liked what I’ve seen. He gets the ball out without crumbling and he puts zip on it. Geno has underthrown guys all year. I hear a lot of fans on Twitter and fb that trash Lock so hard with statements like, “just play him so after his 4th int the pro Lock crowd will shut up.” Im wondering what Geno has done to earn that loyalty besides wear a Seahawks jersey and get the nod from Furer Pete? Getting to the end of a season with no real hopes, its criminal mismanagement to not make damn sure Lock isnt him or at least a better bridge option than Geno. Of course criminal mismanagement seems like the actual culture in Seattle now.
I completely agree about wanting to see Lock get a chance to play for an extended time. Also the loyalty that some show Geno is somewhat puzzling looking at hid last 20 starts. Trying to determine if Lock could be a cheaper bridge option for next year should also be a strong consideration.
Looked at Zintner’s social media briefly. Gave a shout that he’ll be at the combine.
Though entirely unrealistic that he’ll do anything there it is within the realm of possibility that he could play sometime next year.
With that in mind is he a third round investment type pick? Like Taylor before. Later?
The recovery time for that injury doesn’t look too over the top. The key being a big man is muscle loss in your leg and probably the hardest part for athletes is trusting your body/ getting beyond the idea that your leg will suddenly break again.
I’d take him anywhere provided the medicals are not disastrous
Thanks!
I’m really focused on 3rd rounders. I’m not really entertaining DK trades for two reasons: 1. Teams that might let us trade up probably don’t need a WR and picks 2. If they trade DK, in season is where the value is not before draft time.
And they are picking qb with their first pick whether it’s up, stick and pick, or trade down.
Otherwise there is no plan. And there never was one to begin with.
“If Geno Smith ends the season on Injured Reserve, that guarantees his $12.7 million 2024 salary. It is only guaranteed for injury.”
That’s big money. Not saying that Geno would do it, but at what point would he be courting the injury? An interesting scenario of moral hazard in the contract, given how far below expectations things have gone. On the other hand, I suppose if he stays healthy, he’s played well enough to have a shot at earning that much next year as a bridge QB somewhere.
Geno has played down right bad at times but the coaching staff has clearly failed this team. They dont scheme their talent into things and they don’t call plays that will help Geno where he’s clearly struggling. Last week Pete talked a lot about the need to get the ball out faster and Geno and Shane were working hard on that. It took until December for the coaches to see what the fans have been screaming at the tv all year? If I was Pete I’d have been embarrassed to even say that and would have just said we’re working on being better.
Excellent work as always.
One more watch point though. Since the low man always wins, when they go low we go lower.
“I can go as low as you Mav’ and that’s sayin’ something!”
This really made me laugh. Every coach I ever had in my life told me the lowest man always wins. Maybe Adams really took that as a creed.
And just like in that scene with Rooster and Maverick, the Seahawks are in an idiotic death spiral.
Conspiracy theory: Geno is trying to end the season on IR to trigger next season’s guarantee.
If the ‘Hawks were smart (backup data is inconclusive), they’d bubble wrap him and sit him on the sidelines like the Raiders did to Carr last season. Season is shot, anyhow. Don’t make your cap situation worse.
Conspiracy theory going further: Pete is complicit since this gives him an excuse for the losing streak and the playoff miss. “We were so close to turning the corner after that amazing offensive showing at Dallas! If only Geno hadn’t gotten hurt! Dang!”
I don’t think this qualifies as a conspiracy theory. It’s just what’s happening.
“Don’t look over here at the defense though”
The Pete Carroll shell game
Meanwhile the Rams are playing in Baltimore and not getting their asses absolutely kicked.
McVay is wasted in a city that doesn’t care. Come to Seattle Sean. It’s a football mad town.
Reports are that Drew Lock is starting today. Hope he plays well.
I think they’ve known that all along that’s why they elevated Sean Mannion to the active squad
💯
Geno out! Get those excuses ready and lock-ed in!
https://images.app.goo.gl/Jqt8tAK4Bc6yBQ5Q6
At this point I would rather see DJ Dallas at QB than Geno
Drew Lock starting is probably horrible news but it’d be pretty cool of he could do something here.
Putting on my tin foil hat, Geno could have played today, but the FO wishes to have a true look at Drew Lock rather than having him come in during spot duty. They will also avoid putting Geno on IR so they don’t have to give him a roster bonus for next year.
I appreciate the detailed and thoughtful writeup as always cha
I agree, but with an ironic twist — major pivot is possible with a loss. But I fear a win would just perpetuate this no-man’s land the organization is in.
For the record, I don’t expect a win.
Excited to see lock today. It will 99% likely end badly. But I know what geno will look like and I was not looking forward to the Thanksgiving replay. There’s atleast intrigue in seeing lock for a full game.
Exactly how I feel. I was weighing a nap vs watching. Now I’ll watch.
Hugh Millen on KJR the other day was pointing out that Locks passes in the few series he got were not that bad.. probably the one bad throw was to tyler lockett 1 on 1.. he doesnt beat guys like that.. you have to throw into space where he can run to get the ball..
I dont think drew will do much better overall.. he might avoid pressure or escape a little better than geno.. but it will most likely be same result.. probably worse than geno. At this point its missed details in waldrons plays ans whatever influence pete has.. i doubt anyone could be successful in this offense at QB..
We’ll probably run the ball 60% of the plays.
I kinda feel gross. The Rams game is actually kinda fun to watch. Maybe it’s because I have a sinus infection.
No it’s it ok. Both teams play much “prettier” competent football. It’s something I noticed watching 80% of the other teams out there.
The Lions are getting roughed up by… *checks notes* the Chicago Bears.
Even our best win of the season looks like fool’s gold.
Jared Goff in cold weather is a near guaranteed loss
I’m not saying he’s even in the conversation with these names but it does remind me of “Dome Quarterbacks” Brees and Manning.
It’s pretty clear the Seahawks have the worst QB starting today for the NFC West with Lock. I think it’s also true if Geno was starting.
And 3rd best coaching staff at best. Tough to judge them with their starting QB basically out all off season and a bottom of the NFL roster.
Go hawks, but rooting for a loser.
Tough to judge the Cardinals coaches
Wouldn’t the afternoon game on fox with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen normally be called America’s game of the week?
The first play 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Should have been a delay of game call
Welp
Yikes
How about that Seattle defense?
LOL. Fuck this team.
Jamal Adams literally turned away from the runner
Business decision
But when Pete Carroll is back next year he’s your starting strong safety
Embracing the suck now is the way to avoid that fate
OUR starting safety.
Maybe next time instead of turning away he should go lower!
This is going to be a long game
Well….that’s one want to start and set the tone.
way*
What another excellent start.
Great start 😂
Looks like the team came ready to play again.
Carroll. I’ll get my coat.
Wow. Two whole plays to go the length of the field. I just can’t with this team anymore this season.
I am wondering guys do we have some defensive issues on this team?
Formerly known as a team famous for its defense.
I give the offense credit for coming out playing hard
Everyone outside of Pete sycophants know for like 6 years or so we are more of an offensive team. Pete and Co are just in denial. Bad offensive coaching aside.
Hahahaha
Seriously, I don’t care how bad we are, F*@k the Whiners
Wow!
DK getting at it again.
3 really good catches by him on that drive even though one didn’t count.
Wow what a pass by Drew Lock
Hell of a throw hell of a catch
Good pass blocking too. Not perfect, but good enough
And TD Ravens to make it a good night.
And the Rams force OT. The same team that abused us 37-3.
Well that’s 6 more points then Geno got last time we played the Niners
LOL
That pass by Lock into double coverage was sketchy. The other throws he made on the drive looked good.
Look at this absolute clown
https://twitter.com/PuckKJR/status/1733958236435534051
Not too late to bench him.
How the hell do you overrun a play 10 yards downfield from the runner when he makes his break?
I should share that and re-tweet Jamal with “YIKES”. Horrible effort doesn’t say enough
No need. The paper peacock will find it like a rat finds cheese
LOL his Twitter feed is going to get blown up
People need to show up to Lumen Field with “Adams 33 Yikes” signs
Watch #54 on the play too.
He does a Cody Barton and follows the FB out of position, creates a free lane.
You think shanahan never noticed Barton doing this?
Why is Adams still on this team?
Because low man always wins.
I have said it before and I will say it again the only reason this guy is on the team is because Pete Carroll is desperately trying to save face on the worst trade in franchise history. Caroll is allowing his ego to supercede common sense
Quick 3 and out there. I’m going to anticipate heavy run on this drive from us, but hell… SHOCK me and let Drew throw it. 🤷🏻♂️
Ravens and Rams going into overtime. The game is in Baltimore.
Sean McVay should be getting consideration for coach of the year with what he’s done with the Rams this year. Doubtful he will but it’s a team full of mid to late round draft choices
Oh no not Spoon.
So Adams knocks out Witherspoon via Kittles. Sigh….
Jamal Adams is like an STD… A shitty constant reminder of a bad decision you made out of pure desperation once.
#thegiftthatkeepsongiving
We came to play today, great runs by Zack.
Charbonnet is a hard second punch to Walker
Love watching these runs by him.
Let’s go Charbonnet!!! Nice run
Back-to-back runs
Yey, Rams lost.
You burn a timeout to call that crap screen play on 3rd and 14? Jeebus Cripes.
And then get a penalty before the field gold try
Great coaching
Poor coaching to burn a time out and then not be ready for the FG.
Zach looked really good on that drive. Nice to see his improvement through the year.
They called a going for the FG play on 3rd down. How were they not ready?
So are they still rotating Abe Lucas and Jason Peters Why?
Pete Carroll football! Wasted time outs and dumb penalties due to poor attention to details
How do these look?
https://x.com/AlbertB55481266/status/1733966530122051858?s=20
It would look a lot better if he were in the uniform of some other team
Even AI knows that dude takes footballs to the head. The awareness of him losing the ball is on point.
Just when we start looking good, we immediately start making mistakes. It’s why no matter who we draft we are stuck being in this middling to bad type of team.
Thank God the camera didn’t stay on the glass peacock on that last play
Saved me from throwing up
Classic moronic celebration after a routine stop
Careful Rob he’ll come after your wife
I wouldn’t if I were Adams, Rob isn’t taking this.
And there’s no limit to how low he’ll go.
Aye, he’d have the rest of Yorkshire to deal with
Good to see Derrick Hall 15 yards downfield in coverage 🙄
Nice play by Love. The 3rd highest paid safety is more productive than the top-2 guys. Something about that doesn’t make sense, but whatever.
Hawks ball!!!
And then Samuel burns the highest 2 paid safteys on the same play.
Why is Adams flexing?
F-off
Jamal Adams. Yikes
Adams…. yikes
Yikes
Adams got torched ugly
Oh look who’s in coverage on that play
Hopefully twitter is going ham with “Yikes” clips
Coverage would be a compliment. He was chasing the whole route.
Adams why aren’t you flexing now?!
Yikes!!
Yikes!
Loved that so much. What a douche.
Great play by Adams great coverage
Yikes!!
If I’m that reporter I’d tweet Yikes at him again this week
Yikes!
Was that Jamal Adams getting torched again? YIKES…
SLOW!!!!
I was watching the twitter link you posted as jamal adams gets beat deep by deebo… *facepalm
Yikes! F- you Peacock
#33 on the field, #1 in our hearts. Get bent Jamal.
He’s worth every dollar.
Of course hater, best in the nation!!
Worth all those draft choices we traded for him as well not to mention the huge contract and then the restructuring this last off-season
Screw you Carroll
i hope the wife tweets ‘yikes’
if manning was playing i could see him using a ‘33…..yikes yikes YIKES’ cadence
Just tells you where Pete is at. Regardless of his off field behavior, his on field play should have him benched
Having a hard time watching this game and wanting the Hawks to win. Being competitive yet alone winning only enables Pete and keeps this nonsense going. Time to move on to improve
Came here just to see how many yikes comments there would be.
Same here, “Yikes”
How many Seahawks fans are there that still supports Adams?
2 plays before that touchdown I told my 40 niner friend via text if they want to get their offense moving just target Jamal Adam’s
I swear to God
K9 is way too eager to bounce it outside all the time.
Jeez, this weeks Adams low light is even worse.
He’s shit, he’s expensive, and he’s a bell-end. Any more reasons needed to bench and then cut him?
Could make a case that adams is the player of the game for 9ers. Completely overpursued McCaffrey run which set up 1st and goal, then the deebo td. There’s no way coaches aren’t seeing this in film.
I’d only they had something like”tell the truth monday” to honestly review those things…
Come on Pete that only works against your defense
Coward punt decision
Seattle still can’t throw into the middle of the field.
Jamal Adams
Yikes
Yikes Yikes Yikes
Yikes
Moron.
Twitter awash with people simply saying ‘Yikes’
Burned again on that pop pass to Deebo
Yikes Waldron
The Yikes Squadron
Mafe needs a sack. He’s overdue
Kyle Shanahan. Attacking our overpaid safeties and linebackers with ease
An opposing wide receiver running free in the middle of the field Greg? Say it aint so
By not suspending the Peacock and letting his play continue to drag this defense down, fans are going to end up despising both of these guys. Carroll has tied the end of his career to the wrong guy.
As I said earlier today he has allowed his ego to override his common sense
Greg Bell said that same thing on Jacson’s podcast. That Pete was absolutely desperate for Adams to ‘work out’.
Actually Pete is like a dog low for a bone to be thrown, he is desperately hoping someone will make a play of the game
If Pete goes low, Adams go lower
Yikes Adams
Good times over.. sf adjusted..pete perplexed
Yep
Adams has whiffed on multiple plays today. Just flat out awful
This is the first game I’m actually watching him and he’s terrible. Tedric level bad
Because he’s bloody rubbish
Sick of the clown celebrating every routine play, then whiffing hard for big plays, then being an arse on twitter
Get him out of here
Should have got him out of Seattle after his first season. We all saw it we all called for it and instead they gave him 45 million dollars or whatever it was
49ers
Please, please do us a favor by directing your runs directly at the Peacock every running play and isolating him on coverage EVERY pass so he can highlight his greatness to a national TV audience.
I want to see Jamal Adams cover Jerry Jeudy.
One can’t cover or tackle and the other can’t catch or run a route.
More than anything with respect to this team, I absolutely HATE watching this defense. Everything is so vanilla and easy.
What the hell was that pull up and throw past the line of scrimmage?
First big mistake by Lock for illegal forward pass
I’ve enjoyed watching him move around in the pocket
Is much better than Smith
Less of a mistake to make than most of Smith’s TO-worthy throws
Playcall by Waldron so far is very very conservative and predictable its reverting back to what it was before the Dallas game.
Pretty new even reading the site, and it’s awesome. So let me get this straight. We have the 2 highest paid safeties in the league, and they’re also about the worst in the league.
And we renewed their contracts for about 50% more next year, which is going to be hard to get out of without huge dead cap hits for both. Need to cut them both ASAP, and the coaches/GM.
Welcome 👋
Love your user name
And yes you are correct
Fire Pete Carroll
Thanks Big Mike and Rob. Went to dinner around halftime and just got back to see your kind replies. See we found out that we have TEs to throw to.
Want to see us beat the 49ers always. But in JS and PC world, if Lock plays above average for a few games, then they’ll cut guys we need to sign him to a Geno-sized or huge backup QB contract in a couple months. And possibly still keep at least one of our terrible starting safeties.
I thought the Seahawks played well overall in the first half. My bar is set pretty low but only being down 4 points is a lot better than I expected.
after the half….to me, it feels like this is where we will see the separation between the coaching staffs.
💯💯💯
Likely
Kyle Shanahan. Mr creativity.
Pete Carroll. We are just going to line up and out execute you.
Niners by 20
Aside from that last play, Lock has played a solid first half. I find myself in the awkward position of being ambivalent regarding his success going forward as PC could easily delude himself into thinking the QBOTF is already on the roster…..
AI image of a Peacock in a meatgrinder with the caption, “YIKES!”
https://x.com/AlbertB55481266/status/1733978524527067173?s=20
You’re welcome.
Jamal’s “Yikes” joke is going to haunt him until he retires. No one will ever stop saying/tweeting “yikes” to him now every time he fails. I love it.
If he hears it every time he fails he’s gonna hear it a hell a lot before he’s done playing
Please let me see someone in a #33 jersey in the stands next week with a paper bag over their head with “YIKES” written on it.
I could do that with AI right now.
Oh hell yeah
Lucas is handling bosa really well so far when bosa is on that side
Week 2 last year Lucas was handling Bosa so they rotated him into the middle and he was effective.
Week 2. Lucas’ second NFL game.
#respect
Good thing Pete likes to establish the run..Great way to start the 3rd QTR
Saved our three best plays for that opening Q3 drive
49ers were trembling with fear
For Big Mike….
Wyman waxing about memories of when Adams was good.
Elite run defense.
So he’s reminiscing about Adam’s time with the jets then?
Seriously?
Said he didn’t want to blame him but back in 2020 he’d shed his block for a tackle….
Rob he has been an Adam’s apologist since his first season failing after the first game as a seahawk
That’s a nice one by Williams.
Another game…another sad trombone
AI images of fans wearing Jamal Adams’s jersey with a paper bag over their head that says, “YIKES!”
https://x.com/AlbertB55481266/status/1733983505636381147?s=20
Awesome
Feel free to share.
Already have
And thank you
Great offensive adjustments. Powerhouse offensive football team and staff..
Jayden Daniels could outrun Greenlaw in that situation
Just sayin
I wonder if that third round quarterback we’re gonna draft trying to repeat the Russell Wilson success will be able to?
Aaaaaand Kittle owning Adams
An iconic duo
Liked hawkblogger calling everyone who wanted to see Lock a few weeks back idiot’s because a bad showing off a cold bench….
Seems like we’re seeing you could pay Lock 4-8 million for around the same results…
Top money for a guy who can’t even beat a TE on a 1vrs1
If Adam’s goes straight line to the quarterback all out he gets a sack there
Diggs man. Hang your head in shame
Hey Peter
Didn’t we say that the 40 niners would start exerting their will and pulling away late in the third quarter?
Yeah….it begins pretty much when you called it.
There’s the defense we all know. This team is hopeless.
Remember tackling?
First bad adjustment.
Getting in trouble for tackling in practice and never recovering all these years later.
Shoutout to FOX and Greg Olsen for highlighting the Peacock’s awful performance so far. This has to be his worst game as a ‘Hawk.
It’s so bad the radio crew said Myles Adams almost with the sack…I’d like to see more of this myles adams guy.
Diggs and Adams are massive liabilities on the field and on the books
Pete’s just getting out coached
Tell me something new
Diggs and peacock consistently the worst players we have on defense. Unbelievable
I believe it’s 30 million dollars this year and 48 million dollars next year committed to those 2? Is that right anyone?
https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/seattle-seahawks
OTC says it’s over 23 in 2023, and over 48 next year is right. So I was wrong earlier saying with the restructure it’s a 50% increase. It’s over 100%. Insanity for old and injured worst players at their positions.
Even if they were all-pros, paying almost 1/5 of your salary cap to 2 players is crazy, especially when neither is a QB, LT, DE or other high impact position. And we’re doing even more for our 2 starting WRs at over 51 million for Tyler and DK in 2024.
Our defensive backs may be have quit but our running backs haven’t
Haha! Same play they burned us with in the past! Nice TD!!
Shane Waldron just blew my mind.
Let Shane cook
That might be his best playcall of the year!
Props to a beautiful play call on that TD.
Wow where has that play calling been all year?
Who is Fant and Parkinson
Ok I guess someone rebooted Waldron on the sidelines
What a fantastic series of play calls
Executed very well by Lock
💯
Thats the most creative play call by waldron i”ve seen
Just beautiful
Surprised by DL. Pray him $4m with incentives next year for a Bridge. No point in paying Geno $30M
Geno may be better but not $26 million better.
On the positive….Lock has played very well.
Very poised out there.
Lock has been great under the circumstances..
An excellent drive featuring the TEs. Prediction: They won’t have a single pass thrown their way in the 4th quarter…..
Don’t agree. Lock threw the first pass to JSN beyond the LOS this season. I think Drew might just free lance a bit out there.
Wagner and Adams converging to miss Deebo is this defense in a nutshell
All SF need to do is just target Adams they always get chunk plays
Every time our offense does something positive, the same shit happens with our defense. Why?
Does Diggs just refuse to form tackle/wrap up the player with the ball? Lately, I’ve seen him put his head down and just throw his body at people. I truly hope he doesn’t hurt himself cause it looks very dangerous
Diggs with a business decision there.
Let’s see one of our safeties blew the coverage and the other 1 missed the tackle
Hey at least it wasn’t Adam’s this time
Worst defense in the NFL.
4 straight losses. 5 out of 6. 0-2 vs the Rams. 0-2 vs the 49ers. Can Pete really be safe??
it’s ok Pete isn’t a defensive coach…..oh wait
All of these Seattle safeties are trash
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Me and Big Mike already volunteered to stand out there if they roll the savings to players that can play.
We can make business decisions with the best of them
Kinda been a problem this year. Missed tackles….got it Dave.
Thank you captain obvious
Wyman is only five letters away from Wisdom.
Also only 5 letters away from weasel
All 3 of the veteran safetys need to go.
Welcome back to the NFL Drew….where the defense will do absolutely nothing to help you out.
This defense is an embarassment
I wish we would’ve Post 1-June’d Jamal this past year and were able to draft Ji’ayir Brown…
It’s cold comfort for Rob but at least we’ve seen a better effort out of this team then we did on thanksgiving.
Agreed. Expectations against the 9ers should be hampered, but they shown heart and fight today.
Lock throwing into triple coverage is pretty cringe. Nice to see the defense cause a turnover.
As cha mentioned earlier today just like the second game Lucas played they have had to move Bosa inside to get pass rush out of him
I sincerely hope Abe can play for our team for quite some time
Looking forward to Pete on the Brock and Salk Show.
Jordan Love should be the only safety carried over to next year. At least he’s making big plays that could’ve been huge swings if the offense could capitalize.
Meant to be a separate post. Apologies.
But yeah, wonder if he’ll say anything different than his usual mottos.
All he’s gonna say is the same BS stuff over and over again
My God the 49ers are gonna end up over 500 yd of total offense
Against this defense? Easy work.
L.O.Y.
Legion of Yikes
“We’re real close to winning games”- Pete Carroll tomorrow
Some things we need to clean up. That’s on me.
Folks….is Witherspoon out? Was getting a Xmas tree. Saw the comments but thought you all were joking…
Unfortunately he was concussed in the first quarter
They are officially saying it is his back but it looked like a concussion
The broadcast pushing hard for Purdy for MVP like why
Outside of one ill-advised throw Lock has played well today
4 million and incentives? Seems fine to me
Gregory was in the neutral zone to start that play
So why did it take 3 minutes for that call?
Man NFL officials are brutal and this has actually been a decently officiated game
Listening to Greg Olsen blather on is so irritating. He stole $7mm from the Hawks back in 2020. I’ll never forget him letting a perfect RW pass doink off his hands & the defense ran it back for a pick 6.
This is so embarrassing for this franchise
What an utter debacle
The offense tackles just as well as the defense at least.
Cue everyone accusing Waldron of abandoning the run. Yet when they try, it’s a jailbreak and they are lucky to get 1 yard. Their run blocking scheme is utter crap. This is a coaching failure, from the Oline coach up to Carrol.
On defense, nobody form tackles–not ever. Adams never chops his feet and breaks down when rushing, allowing the QB to throw the ball or escape. They play soft zone and don’t cover Kittle or Samuel. I guess they are that scared of Aiyuk?!
Charles Cross is simply awful. If he was a second round pick, he’d be a bust. For a top 6 pick to look like hell never even sniff a Pro Bowl, that’s a wasted draft pick. We’d have done better to draft a kicker.
Clint Hurtt is perhaps the most ineffective Coordinator in the NFL. Why does he still have a job?!
This team is about as much fun to watch as getting a hangnail removed.
The only way anything changes is if season ticket holders give up their tickets in droves. Otherwise, just more of the same until Bezos pays Jody all the monies….
Bobby wagner out there looking like he has arthritic knees tbh..
Good fumble recovery.. wish they coulda atleast got a FG.
Lenoir definitely threw a punch in the scuffle
I find myself pulling for luck and against sea. Seems the biggest indictment of status quo as possible. That’s some broken fandom..
Seattle team led by Pete getting into fights not a surprise at all undisciplined team
Ahh. Here comes all the Pete Carroll trademark immature penalties.
Chernobyl
Twice lenior threw hands.. jeez
Ya.. lenior threw punch at bobo and knocks his helmet.. he should get fined for that
Undisciplined junk… 🤦♂️
Please fire Pete Carroll. I can’t keep watching this same act over and over.
There is that Pete Carroll “great culture” showing up again.
🥱
Fire Pete Carroll
Gotta get rid of Pete after this year
Dirty play by Warner, stupid undisciplined from DK. Poorly coached Seahawks
Wrong, players love the culture in Seattle.
They get to play basketball there you know.
They got hoops and loud music at practice. Everyone wants to take a paycut to play there.
Quandre playing like he just don’t care
Except for the fact he’s highly paid, I can’t blame him. Everyone can see Hurtt has no clue, and this defense is effed from the get-go.
Bobby’s attitude two years ago has spread. If Diggs, Adams, and Wagz aren’t gone next year I’m going to lose my shit. Hopefully they take Carroll and Jody with them…
All the LBs and Safety’s need to go. They need a new attitude on the team. Even if the replacements are worse, I’d like to see effort all game
Diggs just quit on that play seems to say alot about this team and Pete.
Bet he’s lovin that fat paycheck though.
i’m just gonna go ahead and say that i have no problem with dk in this instance. football is a war game. if only some highly paid players on the defensive side of the ball had as much fire. we need more dk. he can at least tackle.
Just thinking that. In the LOB days after Lenoir throws hands someone would be sending a message to the niners.
Amen to that. DK plays hard. He got a cheap shot. Officials should have ejected Warner.
woolen is the anti-sherm
offense sucks, no creativity in the run game, and no plays to get DK the ball. I get his frustration, but he cant lose composure like that. My guess, he will be traded in the offseason for under market value. Which is a shame, dude has talent
Trade DK? Hate the stupid penalties but the whole defense is gutless.
DK deserves to play on a real NFL team, for a real OC and HC. His skills and talent are utterly wasted here.
Carrol is losing the support of his best young players. How long will this debacle be allowed to continue?!
Yup.
Trade him and let him ball out.
so much wasted talent, it should be a crime.
@12th chuck
i’m sorry im not seeing this trade dk stuff. trade him cuz he’s frustrated he plays for a crap
team?!? hawks need warriors.
look at how many plays jamal skips around, he doesn’t really want to be in the play, set the edge, crush the lead blocker. he doesn’t believe, he doesn’t have faith, jamal is just out there running around yapping, like a little dog. quandre is similarly disinterested.
dk does not want to lose. i get the feeling he doesn’t care if he looks bad, or upset, he doesn’t seem to be afraid of trying and failing. please more of that. please.
football is not a choir boy activity. dk supplexed warner. jamal and quandre might want to learn that one, they don’t have the physicality to tackle.
no way no how, do I want to trade DK. I am sure that PC will do something stupid is all I am saying
Total and abject humiliation. Punched in the face like a bunch of sissies.
Niners have 511 yards of total offense. Beyond abysmal folks.
The penalties and loss of personal control are discouraging.
But what’s truly embarrassing is the way the 49ers toyed with the Seahawks on the INT return, playing keep-away like the Harlem Globetrotters making fun of a hapless group of chumps while the crowd roars their approval.
Just might be the low of the Carroll era.
I dunno when Ravens sat Lamar for almost a quarter I knew we were a mirage.
How many total yards for San Francisco today?
Never mind I see above 511
Hey but that kneel down dropped it to 510!
Jamal runs upfield and leaves a wide open gap to end the game
Go get em Prez! What an immense doofus.
Love both your writing and vids, Rob, which I usually enjoy more than the actual games.
Only two more seasons of Pete after this one — unless Jody extends him after a meaningless win or two. Depressed.