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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ams-knew-marshawn-lynch-would-get-ball-at-end
Rams 'knew' Marshawn Lynch would get ball at end
By Kevin Patra
A "miskick" highlighted the Seattle Seahawks' topsy-turvy opening week loss to the St. Louis Rams, but Marshawn Lynch getting stuffed short on fourth-and-1 in overtime was the exclamation point.
The parallels between Sunday's situation and the goal-line interception in Super Bowl XLIX were unmistakable.
Not only from an outsiders perspective -- where narratives reign supreme -- but Rams players said they knew that the Seahawkswould run the ball with Lynch on fourth-and-short after the heat coach Pete Carroll and coordinator Darrell Bevell took the past seven months for their decision to throw in the Super Bowl.
"It's fourth down, who (else) are they going to go to?" Michael Brockers said, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I think they kind of know what happens when you don't give Lynch the ball, so we knew it was going to him."
Brockers led the Rams' charge with Aaron Donald, penetrating deep into the Seahawks backfield to seal the Rams victory.
Throwing would have taken huge cojones from Carroll, which Brockers apparently didn't believe he had.
http://www.seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=113562
With the vanilla play calling all afternoon, they knew most plays since we only use a small handful of them.
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It doesnt matter what he did there.If Lynch gets the 1st everyone says thats what we should have done against the Pats.
Personally I think it should have been a pass since our Oline against the Rams Dline wont win the power game at this point.We were able to get a lot of 4 or 5 yd passes all day against them.
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That's because most of the game Bevell was looking at the back of the playbook and someone on the Rams sidelines had binoculars!
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The only criticism I'd make is running the play out of the read/option shotgun, or any play out of that formation in that situation.
There's a ton of stuff you can do out of a goalline set, and people, like, use the set in short yardage situations for a reason.
Trying to run a read/option on 4th & 1 is like entering a Lamborghini into a tractor pull; the read option preys on utlizing open space, and unless you're going to let your balls hang out and PA out of it and go over the top it's just the wrong formation in that situation (DL crashes down, LB matches with SS help crept down behind while you play single deep with CBs shading in to jam up and cover slants routes).
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I think EVERY team knows that in a short yardage situation with the game on the line, outside of Marshawn having a 30 yard day, he's getting the ball.
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You guys all off season kicked Bevell in the nuts for NOT handing the ball to Marshawn...............now you're kicking him the nuts FOR handing the ball to Marshawn.
Btw, it was a read option, Russell could have kept it and ran for the first down. If anything, Russell is more to blame than the play call. Obviously handing the ball to Lynch to get a yard is usually a good thing, but if we're handing out blame, let's not leave out Russell.
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Not sure keeping the ball would've worked. Long was sat just off right tackle waiting for Wilson.
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Rams DE stayed home, Russell would have been eaten alive for a loss of 5. The right read was giving it to Lynch.. and even then, well we saw what happened
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This place is out of control
http://www.seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=113530
Normally I like to come here after a game and try to find some informed opinions on what happened. Right now this place is just non-stop whining because we lost a game that we often struggle with mightily. Last year Wilson threw for 300 and ran for 100 and we lost. Year before we had under 200 yds of offense and barely pulled out a win 14-13. Apparently no one remembers that we always struggle with the Rams. Looking through the forum there are 100 threads of whining. Let me sum up what these should be consolidated under.
Fire Bevell
Pay Kam
Buy an OL
Wilson sucks
It's not Wilson
Trade Graham if we can't use him
Williams sucks
Hopefully these threads clear out all the clutter because I am having a hard time finding anything worth browsing.
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It's insufferable. The first three or so weeks are always littered with problems while the teams figure things out.
We lost to a team that consistently plays us close whenever we visit them. We lost one game. Time to move on to the Packers.
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Yeah I usually avoid coming here after a loss (I'm here now, obviously). Everyone whining like little babies and exclaiming how to fix the game plan and coach a perfect game. People here overreact a little bit too much for a football game. Especially the first one of the season that we always seem to have problems with, and everyone knows it.
Oh well, at least it's a place to vent! After all, we're venting about the venting.
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I find it amusing. Makes me feel more intelligent than I am.
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Yeah this place is especially crazy today. I didn't realize the 2015 season was already over because of one game
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Golden Retriever puppies are cute
102 Days until Christmas
Wish it was warmer outside
Shock Top Belgium White has a nice taste
Primetime TV shows return starting in a week
The thought of skydiving scares me
Grilled pineapple is amazing
More people should check out .net IRC during NFL games
Its only week 1
I LOVE my HAWKS!!!
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Maybe all the late comers to the bandwagon are not used to a team falling flat and having some question marks.
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Venting is flat out needed, not just expected
They got out coached all day long, and gave up 34 points. The standard is very high here.
I have zero doubt they still end up winning 10 or 11 games. But nothing wrong with being angry about the way they gave that game away. Which is exactly what they did.
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Yeah man this place is crazy. The same yahoos that were predicting 16-0 and saying RW will be MVP and the defense will easily replace Maxwell/Kam and calling out "experts" who have anything less then glowing to say about seattle are the same numskulls who now say this team has 8-8 talent, and we should drop graham, and the coaches are all morons....
People, WE NEVER PLAY WELL against STL IN STL. The last 3 years have all been ugly down there. It's to be expected. Weird stuff happens at 10am in that dome. Just CHILL
The emotional swing next week is going to be epic, should we lose and go 0-2 its doom and gloom city, but if we win, again they're will be people ripping talking heads for talking about a team not named seattle. Good grief.
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I want to wear their rib cages as a hat.
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http://www.seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=113516
Anyone else give less of a crap about this loss than normal?
I was upset but its just week 1...and the rams always do this crap. Watch next week they will lose by 21 points against the Redskins...its what they do.
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I've accepted it. St. Louis in St. Louis is always tough. We'll bounce back.
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I care more.
I hope they move to LA. I hope that racist garbage pail of a city has seen its last professional season
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Going into St. Louis on a 10am game where weird things happen? You expect the ball to sometimes bounce weird and to lose.
I am going to be really really annoyed if we end up worse this year than the 49ers though. Please don't let that happen.
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The only thing that is getting to me is that Russell seems to be afraid to throw the ball against the Rams.
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On the flip side, props to the Rams and that fierce defense. Those guys are ballers.
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Russell is now 0-3 at St. Louis at 10am. So the loss isn't a shocker. It did SUCK, but not unexpected.
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We made Foles look like Rodgers that is very worrisome for next week.
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I think the Rams will win the division.
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Rams played a heck of a game, they deserve the credit, they were the better, more prepared team yesterday.
It's not that often that you can say that, but it was clear the Hawks were outcoached.