The Seahawk World According to Dr. Garp
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Coupla Seahawk posts first. And then I was thinking about using this site to start a baseball blog. What are your thoughts, Hobson? :: take your hat off, please :: Huh? :: please ::
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I'm so sick of this narrative and it's only been 18 hours
That was the biggest choke job in NFL history and you could use this game as example 1 A why playing not to lose always backfires. Aaron Rodgers doesn’t deserve the mvp after not being able to get a td twice at the goaline. The guy is an overrated choker who won a super bowl in a down year. I kinda of think Green Bay figured Russell Wilson out yesterday can’t wait to see what the hoodie does to him in 2 weeks.
Good luck Hawks against a team with a competent coach, good QB and bruising ground game last time you faced a team with those 3 things you lost at home to the Cowboys. I hope Gronkowski throws Sherman "out of the club"
Ok Hawks fans get your stupid passive aggressive snide Durpa durpa durpa go Hawks comments ready. I mean nobody on sb nation can avoid you guys these days…… ANYWHERE
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Dr. D's analysis, thusly:
1. My first thought is ALWAYS to ask: What was the biggest thing you ever won, dude? :- )
2. ... and why did you lose, get cut, give up, or quit when you left organized sports. (Not rhetorical. I mean: WHY did you leave)
3. Aaron Rodgers visually looked as calm as if he were playing Pinochle with his maiden aunt. Compare Jay Cutler's body language, eyeblink rate, etc
4. Aaron Rodgers "deserves" to be, like, President of the United States. He's got a somewhat rare skill set. What Dr. D means to say is, like, we could do worse than to have Aaron Rodgers be President.
5. Elliott Hulse (Strongman / Life Coach): most Americans live their lives watching others live their lives (sports, movies, 'net problems, etc etc). Go do something yourself, pardner. We mean it in a good way
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[Doug Baldwin's anti-doubters tirade was] an entirely reasonable rant, and I don't really have much of a problem with it. You've won, you can call out the doubters. Of course, I have to assume Baldwin was including the Seahawks fans that left the game early, and unsuccessfully tried to get back into the game when the Seahawks made their amazing comeback.
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1. Personally, I "disengaged" rather early in the 4th quarter. I disengaged completely after the 4th pick, with 5 minutes left. I didn't re-engage after the 19-13 score. Only when the Seahawks recovered the onside kick did I sit up in my chair, and go "this is a 50-50 ballgame now. How could this happen?"
2. That cost me a LOT of enjoyment of the victory.
2a. So many times, character flaws are their own punishment. No external application needed at all.
3. The fact that Wilson never disengaged, even an inch, had something to do with his postgame weepfest. Dr. D has no words for his admiration of Wilson's heroism.
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The truth is...
For the first 50+ minutes of the game I witnessed a nightmare. DangeRuss was being exposed, every negative concern you heard about him from the haters was coming true. He was inaccurate, he was indecisive and he was making seriously bad decisions. We weren’t just losing, our QB was being stripped of his cloak of cool. It was much more than disappointing, it was almost as if Wilson was being shown to be the short, inconsequential, 3rd round pick he was accused of being. I said to my wife, "He’s not just being crushed, he’s making bad decisions, he’s being exposed, his mystique is being torn off him… it’s like they were right and we were wrong…he’s not what we thought he was."
A tiny bit of that fear still remains ...
That DangeRuss came back and played like we know he can play was somewhat reassuring ...Brady be prepared – a force of nature your way comes – and you know Tom – it’s a waste of time to try and oppose a force of nature….
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1. The above is inaccurate.
2. The basic delusion occurs because the non-ex-athlete-fan projects his own "Superman" fantasies onto the TV screen. He would be better advised to appreciate the athletes for what they are actually doing out there.
3. Sports contests like the NFC Championship aren't Avengers movies. They are slugfests between gladiators who ask no quarter and receive none. Wilson never had a "cloak of cool," an invisibility ring, anti-gravity boots, etc, except in the minds of the Elvish screenwriters.
How INEVVIITTTABLE the victory was, Dept.
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Sports are exciting enough as the real human struggles that they are.
4. Wilson was never stripped of his, ahem, poise and focus. (He showed this when he led the final 3 touchdown drives.)
The problems had been technical. In technical terms, "those feeb wideouts couldn't get open to save their lives." That, and the fact that young Wilson doesn't yet see the field the way he will in year seven.
It's fascinating that technical problems are so often re-assigned to the "moral failings" department. Perhaps Dr. D is exaggerating the issue here ... wait!, here's the next fanfest:
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What's scary is that Seattle had been a luckfest now for 3 years.
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1. The Seahawks were lucky to recover the onside kick (and unlucky to have interceptions bounce off the hands of receivers). Without the unlikely bounces of the ball, we're discussing a loss today. Actually not discussing it :- )
2. Titanic battles like these, if they're not blowouts, are usually decided by luck. The 1970's Steelers dynasty started with the Immaculate Reception by Franco Harris. It didn't mean that Pittsburgh's defense wasn't legendary, nor that the 1970's Steelers weren't epic.
3. When an MLB champion wins 3 World Series games by skill, and 1 World Series game by a gasp-inducing stroke of luck, I'm not apologizing. The champion did a whale of a lot to get into that situation. Every other team did less.
4. Yep, a dice roll different here and a dice roll different there, and the fabric of sports history would be different at many points. The champion's fate was not "inevitable." This ain't a movie script.
5. Luckfest for 3 years: Things like the Fail Mary occur more often, for athletes who refuse to quit.
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Maybe Wilson has been figured out
We will know in two weeks
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1. The Seahawks are NOT an invincible juggernaut. (They're merely one of the best NFL teams ever to take the field.) They can lose, when their offense is shut down.
2. The best shot at doing that, is to put pressure on their (feeb) receivers to make plays, and
3. ... to make Wilson find open receivers. He's still a 3rd-year QB, after all.
4. Green Bay did this magnificently, as other teams have done ... what, 20-30% of the time the last three years? It's not rare for the Seahawks offense to struggle.
5. The Seahawks have counters to this strategy. It's a game of adjustment and counter-adjustment. You can be sure that Belichick will have a hard time imitating Green Bay's approach.
Power to the People,
Dr D
That's the spirit. Seattle was a choke job away from being laughed at for this game. I'm not going to overreact to this luckfest.
Lynch is getting old and he’s basically their whole offense so I don’t see them keeping this up. They are going to have to pay all of their young defensive talent, too.