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Seattle LB: "Seattle would beat Denver 90 out of 100 times"

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The Seahawks didn't play a good a game as they did in the Super Bowl.

 

That was not the norm for their defense. That was total suffocation.

I agree they didn't play as well vs the Colts but what they did to Denver was more the norm for their D all year. Their D was ranked number one in just about every defensive category and only let up an average of 14 points a game. They also held the Niners who many believe to be the second best team in football to 3, 17 and 17 again in the conference championship game.

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What site are you using for his receptions? I couldn't really find anything on PFF but TY was 6% higher in %deep passes according to advanced stats. I don't know if that's catches or targets though.

 

My PFF subscription is up so I can't give you a screen shot from this year, but here are his numbers from last year:

 

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Seattle are just the masters of the cover-3 defense, they run it to perfection

"In the first half Sunday, against Manning’s 23 pass attempts, Seattle played one of four versions of Cover-3 16 times, and 11 of those 16 were one of two forms of 3-buzz. Manning completed nine of those 11 passes but for just 43 yards — less than 4 yards per attempt. For reference, during Manning’s 263-game career, including playoffs, he has finished at less than 4 yards per attempt for a game just once — during his rookie year.

This aspect of Seattle’s game plan was underscored when Kam Chancellor was briefly injured late in the second quarter. With backup DeShawn Shead on the field Manning attempted six passes, and on the first four of those Seattle played its only four snaps of 3-sky. On none of those six attempts was Shead asked to be an interior hook defender in 3-buzz.

Seattle benefited in three ways from the 3-buzz: One, because Denver relies heavily on shallow crossing routes — and not just to Wes Welker — the Seahawks in zone coverage had a more agile defender aligned within or near the hash marks to defend, and deter, those routes.

Two, Seattle could capably disguise a changeup coverage called “robber.” Base man-to-man, termed “Cover-1” (which Seattle played three times in the first half, including the Chancellor interception), features a five-man rush with a deep free safety helping man defenders. “Robber” is man-to-man coverage with just four rushing but with an additional safety coming from a deep alignment to “rob” shallow crossers. The alignment of this robbing safety mirrors his alignment of 3-buzz coverage.

Seattle played robber just three times in the first half but one was the game’s third offensive play for the Broncos, in which Chancellor uncoiled from deep alignment on Demaryius Thomas, who was rocked some 5 yards backward after catching a shallow cross for a 2-yard gain. That tone-setter required Manning and all his targets to consider the health consequences of their shallow-cross package.

While fans usually favor aggressive blitz schemes — which require man-to-man coverage, the “12s” are learning to embrace the mantra of destructive zone defense: “Give them 5 yards and a headache.” Against the Seahawks it’s more like 2 yards and a ruptured spleen.

And the last advantage of the 3-buzz is that from the same relatively high-safety alignment, Seattle could employ its seldom-used “quarters” coverage — which features all four defensive backs aligned deep with coverage responsibilities adjusting after the snap based upon the verticality of the receivers’ release.

Seattle played just one snap of quarters in the first half but it resulted in, due to a wrecking-ball rush by Cliff Avril, the Malcolm Smith pick-six and, for my money, the play of the game."

http://seattletimes.com/html/sports/2022836501_hughmillen05xml.html

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Eat your heart out Broncos fans, this is the media just pulling your tail again.

 

Had he said that we would beat them 50 or 60 times out of 100, the media would be saying how they don't sound very confident going into next season.

 

 

This is no story and a joke. But of course, there will still be a hundred excuses made for the Broncos and Manning even though they were the favored team in the game and got beat into the ground. 70% of all bets in Vegas were on the Broncos and they got beat this bad. Just goes to show you how wrong 3/4's of the entire league was with crowning these guys after they broke all the records.

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Eat your heart out Broncos fans, this is the media just pulling your tail again.

 

Had he said that we would beat them 50 or 60 times out of 100, the media would be saying how they don't sound very confident going into next season.

 

 

This is no story and a joke. But of course, there will still be a hundred excuses made for the Broncos and Manning even though they were the favored team in the game and got beat into the ground. 70% of all bets in Vegas were on the Broncos and they got beat this bad. Just goes to show you how wrong 3/4's of the entire league was with crowning these guys after they broke all the records.

Thanks Skip

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