curmudgeon wrote:Uh-oh. Season down the tubes??.....
Hawk Sista wrote:What a bittersweet win, that’s for sure! Damn it. Outside of losing Sherm for the year we lost a sheeeet ton of players tonight. Reed, Sherm, Kam (neck stinger), Duane, Frank, Procise (again - other ankle) and others (didn’t have my binoculars & I couldn’t rewind, so I’m not super sure who else. I hope team leadership and players across the NFL demand change on this greedy new Thursday night game.
Vegaseahawk wrote:The sky is falling, The sky is falling! 6-3 is a disaster! We may miss the playoffs!
Seriously people? Sometimes I laugh out loud at the skepticism of some of the gloom & doom crowd here in the shack.
Stream Hawk wrote:Anyone think Maxwell will get a shot? I would actually feel pretty good about our chances if someone who was already in the system came back.
NorthHawk wrote:Anyone think Maxwell will get a shot? I would actually feel pretty good about our chances if someone who was already in the system came back
He would fit in well, but we don't have any Cap space left to add another player.
RiverDog wrote:We won the battle and lost the war. Losing Sherman is frigging huge as it opens up the entire field to other team's offenses. Arizona immediately started attacking Sherman's right side immediately after he went down.
Yes, our 6-3 record is OK, puts us in a decent position. But after losing that Redskins game, it put us in a position to where we need to start hoping for other teams to lose, and Sherman's going down just laid a major hit on our odds. Personally, I think we'll be very lucky to make the playoffs this season.
But we'll see. There's still a lot of football left to play and stranger things have happened. But it's really hard for me to paint a smiley face on our predicament.
obiken wrote:River, I think that losing ET is a bigger loss than losing Sherman, but that's just me. IF ET comes back at a 100% than we are OK, if not we are done. Losing both? Its over.
Have you looked at the current standings? 6-3 is borderline playoffs at the moment. We're the number 5 seed right now. We just lost our best CB with a bunch of high powered passing attacks coming up.
I think our defense will certainly look different, but I won't go so far as to say the season's over. We still have a decent front and a spectacular pair of LBs in Bobby and KJ and as long as we have Russ under center I trust our offense to find a way to do enough, at least often enough, to win enough games to stay in the hunt.
c_hawkbob wrote:Sherm is every bit as critical a cog as any other member of the Legion. Earl and Kam have both been hurt and we've suffered as a defense but not crumbled, in part because Sherm has always been there. Now without Sherm we'll suffer again, and probably on a similar scale as without any of the other two, but we won't crumble. We may get burned over the top a bit more now that we can't eliminate half the field from the other team's offensive game plan, but most teams have to live with that reality anyway.
I think our defense will certainly look different, but I won't go so far as to say the season's over. We still have a decent front and a spectacular pair of LBs in Bobby and KJ and as long as we have Russ under center I trust our offense to find a way to do enough, at least often enough, to win enough games to stay in the hunt.
idhawkman wrote:I am hoping that this sparks a new plan on defense and offense from the top down. I think too often we've relied on a miracle stop by the defense at the end of the game. Maybe now, we'll start playing all 4 quarters on offense and the defense will blitz more, change things up a bit, etc.
idhawkman wrote:I am hoping that this sparks a new plan on defense and offense from the top down. I think too often we've relied on a miracle stop by the defense at the end of the game. Maybe now, we'll start playing all 4 quarters on offense and the defense will blitz more, change things up a bit, etc.
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