Seahawks Week 6 News Roundup: Is Tariq Woolen a Legit All-Pro Candidate?
(Seattle Overload Podcast)
Episode 69 of the Seattle Overload podcast is a livestream going over the latest news and hottest topics revolving around the Seahawks before their Week 6 matchup with the Cardinals.
Hi Mr. Brown,
While not being as expert as you or your overload cohorts I did spend this evening watching the all 22 from the Saints game and I had a takeaway I wished to share with you. Shockingly I am not sure the defense actually played as badly as they are being made out to have played. While the stats remain poor it seems to me that the issues they have range through a couple of key areas:
1 - The team is overly aggressive: It is almost as if they are trying to be heroes on every play. They are not letting the tackle come to them and instead are over pursuing at times. Brooks shot past Kamera on at least one key play and it seems like the entire defense was over pushing on the last Taysom Hill run. I left them completely exposed with no one in the back being a true Safety. I am not sure Diggs missed the tackle as much as they were just out of position on the play.
2 - Some of the defensive play calling is also too aggressive: The double linebacker blitzes seem to backfire more often and certainly did on the long Kamera screen pass.
3 - This was a game of bad circumstances on top of bad habits. The Metcalf Fumble combined with the Rugby, Brainfart punt put the defense in some rough spots and between that and what seems to be as being overly aggressive they ended up almost ‘overplaying themselves out of the game.”
4 - Somewhat unrelated, the last 3 down conversion for the Saints looked like Ryan Neal was way out of position but I am unclear if I am seeing that correctly. Certainly seemed like there was man v zone confusion out there.
Curious on your thoughts
Also, Fant was open on Geno’s big sack at the end and Walker was open on the two point conversion and I think he missed both of them.