We were spanked. It's not the end of the world. I think Coach Holmgren was outplanned, outplayed, outgunned, but if anyone can look at our faults and turn the team around, it's Coach Holmgren.
We're up against a challenge from the very beginning. We've got a cast of young players on offense and a quarterback that sat out the pre-season with back spasms. There is no chemistry yet; there's no confidence as to where they will be on the field in a tight situation. That comes with time and experience. Holmgren will figure out a way to work around these problems to get the players in a position to benefit Hasselbeck.
Burleson was set to be the one-man show, fielding kicks, catching passes and scoring touchdowns. He was doing alright until he left the game with a knee injury, caused by only his own desire to make a cut on a play. To me it looked like his toe caught in the turf and twisted the knee, but however it happened he went down on his own before the play fully developed and didn't make it back into the game. This is dreadful news for the Seahawks on an already depleted wide receiver corps. But with a healthy Hasselbeck, we can work around it.
While Shaun Alexander sits at home unemployed, a personnel move that most Seahawks fans supported, Maurice Morris didn't find his running game until just before he was injured with a knee injury, not to return the game. Julius Jones stepped in and was highly ineffective, and Weaver wasn't as productive as we'd have wished either. Tough day for running backs, though Jones found his feet late in the game.
You know you're in trouble when Seneca Wallace comes in to field kicks. That's exactly what happened. I think it may be time to suit him up as a receiver and elevate Frye to the #2 QB. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Our defense played pretty well but obviously not well enough. We got caught with our pants down more than once (that fake field goal was a thing of beauty had it not been so embarrassing to the Seahawks) and that can't happen again. The blogs say that Tatupu has a hand injury and the announcers were concerned about his knee. We can't afford to lose Tatupu.
I don't need to fail Holmgren for this game - I suspect he'll do so himself. I do not believe this is an indication of how our season will be nor do I believe that Holmgren is past his prime. He'll fix us. He'll turn things around. Believe it.
Quotes by Mike Holmgren
“I thought we were sloppy particularly on offense, the special teams, clearly; field position and how Buffalo handled their special teams against us, was I think, the big story of the game. We’ll get better. We didn’t play very well today I think, but we’ll get better. We’ve got to get back home, roll up our sleeves and get going.”"Clearly our inexperience in certain areas showed. But we’ll get better.”