Coach Carroll jumped onto the lockers after the game, inorder to address his players. As he explained, his reasons for this had a practical
element. Pete Carroll's philosophy is more supportive than that of any
other NFL team I've heard of but also he has a pragmatic streak to him.
It turns out that running back Thomas Rawls has a broken ankle. Marshawn Lynch is still out after his surgery.
I was less than impressed with Harris (other running back)
and Pete Carroll apparently wasn't either. Harris was held to a mere 42 yards
on 18 carries and turned the ball over in the red zone. So they let Harris go and have signed a guy named Bryce Brown instead. Carroll is usually willing to
give people second chances but at this point in the season he can't afford to
fool around. Also, Harris has probably been around the practice field and
locker room for a while: if he had that sparkle of potential, I trust Carroll
to have seen it and kept him despite one bad game. So if he let Harris go then
it needed to happen.
At this point I cannot say whether or not I approve of Brown, mostly because it is one thing to view the stats of an individual and quite another to watch him mesh (or not) with a team that is supposed to play for each other and not just as individuals.
The improved pass game came at a great time but the Seahawks
need to patch up the running game too because if other teams aren't intimidated
or "know" we won't run the ball, they'll redouble their
efforts to stop the receivers, or to crash into Wilson before he can throw.
Without Jimmy Graham, the Seahawks already need their fullback in
more often in order to provide some muscle on offense. This would explain why
we see Tukuafu out there a lot this season. It also explains why he's gotten the ball
more than once. We also have Derrick Coleman, another fullback who isn't as
intimidating as Tukuafu (no one is as intimidating as Tukuafu) but is light and
relatively speedy for a fullback and could maybe do as a running back if he had to.
We shall see.
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