How Would the Hawks Have Fared?

[Uppercut]

I was trying to imagine the hawks playing the Broncos yesterday if they would have comeback and beat the panthers and then went on bloody, tired, and battered and eecked out another win against ARZ to reach SB 50.

I think we may have given them a tougher time but the O-Line would have been a bad nightmare.

I would say results may have been similar to what the Panthers went through maybe more like 24 - 17 however. But RW would be all class afterwards.

[c_hawkbob]

I think we'd have won. Even being as objective as I am capable of being, I really do think we'd have won.

[Hawk Sista]

I think we would have won too. A low scoring affair. I doubt we cough it up 4 times, but one never knows. Hats off to the Broncos.

[HumanCockroach]

Based on Denver's offensive ineptitude, I would guess similar to the final score, but flipped. Maybe Seattle 20 Denver 10. The difference being mainly Wilson's scrambling ability, and ball security.

[RiverDog]

I've been wrong so many times before, but I think that if we played 10 times, we'd win 7.

[Hawktawk]

Thats hard to say. I thought we were going to beat the Panthers. I think if that Panthers team had Russel Wilson they would have definitley won the Superbowl, how about that.

[Uppercut]

Panthers may have won with Johnny Football if he had a sober night!

[jshawaii22]

All of you think we would win... is that before or after we break Von's leg and Ware's arm? The problem that is hard to envision is Russell looking any better then Cam did with that (yes, better then our) pass rush, especially one that keeps the QB from rolling out effectively, which is what Denver did to Cam.

It sure would be low scoring, that's for sure, but no given that we would win.

[HumanCockroach]

I never said it would be a comfortable night for Wilson, nor that there wouldn't be the usual claims of horrid line play after, just that Denver's offense still wouldn't have moved the ball, and Wilson wouldn't have gift wrapped 19 of Denver's 24 points. Ie a win.

[RiverDog]

All of you think we would win... is that before or after we break Von's leg and Ware's arm? The problem that is hard to envision is Russell looking any better then Cam did with that (yes, better then our) pass rush, especially one that keeps the QB from rolling out effectively, which is what Denver did to Cam.

It sure would be low scoring, that's for sure, but no given that we would win.

I, for one, didn't say that a win would have been a given. I said I thought we would have won 7 times in 10 attempts.

But I do think that Russell is better in a broken play scenario than Newton, and I don't think Russell's throws would have been off like Newton's were. I also don't think he gives up that strip sack TD as Newton did not even glance at his blind side and Russell most certainly would have recovered that last fumble that sealed the deal.

I also don't think Hauschka misses a 44 yarder.

[obiken]

Its a meaningless speculation cause we weren't.

[Oly]

Its a meaningless speculation cause we weren't.

Are you sure you're familiar with sports fandom? At least half of it is meaningless [but fun] speculation. Besides, I seem to remember multiple occasions of you speculating how much better we'd have been drafting the Sanchize instead of Curry in 2009.

I think the Hawks would have lost something like 13-10. Wilson wouldn't have gifted points, but I don't think the Hawks have moved the ball much better than Carolina. Now, if Beast was at 100%, then I absolutely think the Hawks would have won 20-13 or something.

[monkey]

I just keep remembering how the Broncos looked against us pre season, and I believe it would play out much like that game,
Von Miller and Ware would cause a ton of chaos, but Wilson would in turn, cause a little of his own. We would move the ball inconsistently, but hit on a few big plays, enough to just outscore the completely hapless Broncos offense. A Manning led Broncos offense wouldn't beat us because of his inability to even threaten us deep. We could crowd the line, and bring extra pressure all game (like the Panthers) without fear.
In the end, Seattle simply matches up better against the Broncos than the Panthers do even though the Panthers match up well against us.

[jshawaii22]

Russell would of dove for the ball... and probably got it.

[NorthHawk]

I think Russell probably would have got that ball, too but with our OL, I doubt he would have had time to raise his arm.
That Bronco pass rush (and front 7) was on another level on Sunday and I doubt we could have any success at all against them Offensively.
The only hope we would have would be on ST and our Defense matching their Defense in scoring.