Last night at Qwest Field, Reggie Bush had the three longest runs of his NFL career. In college, Bush's longest-ever play of any kind was an 84-yard punt return at Husky Stadium. The guy's just killed us.
Speed is supposed to be the strength of the Seahawks defense, but Bush made them look like turtles chasing a zebra. 
Leroy Hill, especially, who also failed to corral a sure fumble recovery on the Saints' first offensive drive.
A couple of other defenders had terrible games.
Kelly Jennings got abused, the worst moment being a 38-yard pass to David Patten that jumpstarted a Saints late-first-half touchdown drive.
Patrick Kerney, he of the six-year, $39.5 million contract, didn't do shit; there were autograph seekers who got closer to Drew Brees last night than Kerney did.
The offense wasn't much better--once again, no running game. You know why.
The night was best summed up by the byplay between Al Michaels and John Madden after the Hawks ran a fullback draw on 4th and 3 from their own 30.
Madden: Ugh. Ugh.
Michaels: Yikes.
Madden: Yeah, that is a yikes. And they had time to think about it, too. That call came after a timeout. Unbelievable.
And in my basement, the "Should Holmgren Go" conversations began.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
They Banned Smoking, Can't the City Do Something About Reggie Bush?
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Another craptastic weekend. Football and I are breaking up.
I actually thought Alexander looked better in his limited carries last night than he had at any other point during the year. Not to say that he looked good, but, he seemed a little quicker on his cutbacks and more elusive in open space. That said the O-Line was absolutely terrible last night. They weren’t creating any holes for the run game and were allowing a Saints defense that had to that point only notched one sack all year to pressure Hasselbeck at will. I attribute this loss to poor O-Line performance and a Saints offense that could be legitimately mistaken for last year’s unit for the first team all year.
On a side note, did anyone else notice that NBC gave away the Seahawk’s entire “Offensive Game Plan” early in the second quarter? Thanks to the wonders of HD television, when the camera zoomed in on Holmgren’s play sheet, you could read absolutely everything on there. All the short-yardage plays, ranked and ordered, all the first down plays, ranked and ordered, all the third and long plays, ranked and ordered. And it wasn’t even as if the plays were all that hard to decode. Holmgren’s top-ranked short-yardage play was “Strong Sweep Left”, clearly a FB sweep to the left. Even putting aside the future ramifications of having this information given away (knowing Holmgren, I’m pretty sure the Seahawks change up their game plan a ton from week to week anyway), had New Orleans had a scout watching live they could have gained a tactical advantage during the game itself. Fuck you NBC. Allow the conspiracy theories to commence.
Oh, and, Seneca Wallace for starting wide receiver anyone?
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