2012 Seahawks Schedule Has Been Released

The season is almost here and yesterday the Seattle Seahawks have released their 2012-2013 season schedule. I am really excited this year as the team resigned many valuable players and had a decent draft.

Being said, Coach Carroll will more than likely be making record setting trades in the months leading up to the preseason games. As a fan it is nice to know a coach isn’t afraid to replace people if they are not fitting into the system.

The schedule has a great teams coming to town and two I am stoked about are week 6 when host the New England Patriots and week 10 with the New York Jets. I was sad to see preseason game 2 was Away at Denver. Would be cool to see Manning and Tebow at home. I’ve seen Payton before so I guess I’ll live.

The complete schedule is at http://www.seahawks.com/schedule/season-schedule.html

Owen Schmitt – Seattle Seahawks

Hola and welcome back for another great year of Seattle Seahawks football. It has been a rough season but the bugs are getting ironed out in the offense and defense. Lasts weeks game against the Jacksonville Jaguars was a beating of epic proportions with a 41-0 domination by the Seattle Seahawks. I took some pics but my favorite has to be capturing Owen Schmitt bust up his head right out of the tunnel. No he didn’t trip or fall; he didn’t by slamming his helmet into his forehead. Schmitt you’re an animal! Schmitt even played the rest of the game with tons of blood down the front of his jersey. Wonder if that is what sparked our defense to come alive?

Another dreadful loss

The season is getting to the point where it may not be recoverable. With a record of 1-4 the season is looking bleak. Injuries continue to occur and there is no rythym at all on both sides of the ball. Yesterday’s game ws painful to watch and the video below is on of the best things that happened all day, well can’t forget about Kerney’s super hit on Rodgers and Peterson’s hit to fumble on Rodgers.

 

 

Seahawks Home Game This Weekend

Finally the bye week is gone and the team is back home for a game. It has been a rough start to the season with the injuries, losses and the lack of rythym in the team. Hopefully playing at home with trusty #12 in affect they will find their grove. It seems that that many of our key players did not practice; Hasselbeck, Wallace and Branch. So does that mean that Frye will be playing in Sunday’s game? A third string guy…good thing he does of experience to draw off.

 

GO HAWKS!

Seahakws Get Their First Win

Yesterday the gang and I all went down to Seattle for the Seahawks week 3′s game against the St. Louis Rams. The 2 prior weeks didn’t go at all as planned so all of us were crossing fingers and toes with the hopes of seeing a win. This morning on KISW 99.9 Chad Eaton was talking about how much the Rams suck and that even though the Seahawks got a win it wasn’t that impressive due. I disagree with his observation because no matter how it is looked a win is still a win, either by a mile or an inch, a win is a win if it is over a great team or a bad team. This win could definelty set the tempo to the rest of the season

 

The Seahawks showed poise and confidence right from the opening kick off all the way to the touchdown on the opening drive. Getting a solid start on the opening drive allows a team to find its rhythm early and can set the tone for the rest of the game. This is exactly what happened with the Seahawks on Sunday. The opening drive cascaded through out the game a was prevalent in the Julian Peterson forced fumble to recovery to touchdown that came a few minutes later. By the end of the first half the score was 17-0 Seahawks which has to be one of the highest first quarter point totals I have seen in a long time.

 

The running game was impressive and I ask Matt Hasselbeck not to do anymore blocking even though it can lead to a touchdown. In a subsequent drive, Matt made an impressive block on two Rams defensive players allowing Julius Jones to get into the end zone to extend the lead. The blocking wasn’t necessary as there was still time on the clock, it wasn’t a critical touchdown (game deciding) and could have cost the Seahawks their star quarter back.

 

Totally 240 plus yards on the ground is something that has not been seen in Seattle for some time now and it was awesome to see some old fashioned ground and pound mixed with fancy footwork. At times when we though Jones was going down he would spin move out of it and pick up extra yards. Those extra yards make all the difference when it comes to progressing down field efficiently.

 

It was a blast to see the Seahawks win and for one of the very first times there where NO opposing team fans sitting around us. It doesn’t seem like a big deal but it actually made a dramatic difference in the amount of enthusiasm of lower Section 316. So lets get this year in full affect and get loud and get some wins. GO HAWKS!

Seattle Seahawks recap for week 1

A lot of things happened this weekend. Family has been in town since Thursday for my Dad’s wedding that happened on Saturday. Spent tons of quality time with them and it was cool since they live in San Diego and I don’t get to go down there that often. Everything couldn’t have gone better until Sunday when Seattle faced Buffalo in a down pore.

 

The team looked totally out of sync. I am sure having injured starting receivers contributed to this but gesh. It makes wish the starters played more in the preseason to get into their grove so they could hit the opening day with rhythm. Now we are 0-1 when it should have been an easy win. Buffalo didn’t have good stats so it wasn’t that they were playing stellar and smoked us by skill.

 

Game Stats

 - 252 total yards (bah…can’t win a game like that)

 - 5 penalties for 30 yards (bah…aren’t we one of the least penalized teams in the NFL?)

 - 3 for 16 on 3rd down conversions (bah…we couldn’t move the football at critical times)

 - and time of possession was almost equal

 

It was just our lack of continuity and being able to get the ball down the field (definitely shows with total yards).

 

Oh well; this weekend it is a home game and having the home crowd in fully force should help out. San Francisco doesn’t have a chance and maybe I will get some new pictures up. Hard to take new pictures when we are in the same seats every year

Seattle faces Chargers Tonight @ 5pm PST

Football season is underway; well it is preseason still. I went to last weeks game against the Bears and was surprised to see Grossman playing most of the game but not surprised to see him play as bad as last year. Honestly, can’t the Bears get a better QB? I should probably be glad they don’t. The game was fun and it felt really good to be back in the stadium after the long hiatus.

I am really looking forward to this season and it looks like there are some definite new stars on the team. My favorite player sill remains #8 Matt Hasselbeck but I pretty like every player on the team. Hopefully our starters play 1 quarter this time as watching touchdowns are always a favorite past time of mine

 

Tonight the Hawks play the Chargers in their 3rd preseason game. It is getting close to crunch time and players are going to fighting for play time as good impressions make the coaches desk, as well as bad ones. Who will make the team for the 2008 Seattle Seahawks? I’m not sure yet and definitely not as good as the pros pickers so I will wait this one out and just enjoy the game tonight and talk football with the guys!

 

Go Hawks!

Seattle Travels to Chicago

I just got done reading Matt Hasselbeck’s blog, via the rss feed, and am totally happy that he updated. The game this week is a huge one for Seattle and Matt is optimistic.

 

"I sense a great attitude this week as we prepare for a game few expect us to win." That is what I like to hear about Seattle, that there is a harmony with the team in the face of adversity traveling on the road. The hositle environment that is Soldier Field will be un friendly but Seattle has had time, the whole season, to better understand this oppenent and find their weaknesses.

 

In my opinion their weakness lies in Rex Grossman because of his ability to throw many interceptions during one game. The turnovers will decide this game but only if Seattle can capitalize on them multiple times.

 

If Seattle is going to win it is going to take getting in the end zone very early in the game and maintain a lead going into the half. This will help break down Rex’s confidence and force him to make bad decisions. I like watching Rex make bad decesions…well the game is at 10am and I will so be watching!!

 

GO SEAHAWKS!!

Seahawks beat Cowboys 21-20

Tonight was game to be marked the Seahawks history books. In a Wild Card Playoff Game the Seahawks hosted the Cowboys at Quest Field. From everything I was seeing the Cowboys were picked to win but the game tells a different story that has 68K plus Seahawks Fans happier than a puppy with two peters.

 

The day started off pretty wild with the guys picking me up at noon to head to the big city, Seattle, and search for our epic parking spot. The spot was just West of Quest Field in a strip of people that looked like Hawk Alley. We set up camp with a power inverter running the TV so we could watch the Indianapolis and Redskins game and shortly there after it was pandemonium. People were throwing the football and playing ping pong all around us. As we chillaxed the day wore on and the excitement gained ahead of steam leading into kick off.

 

View: Seahawks beat Cowboys pics

 

We arrived at Quest Field with everyone else in Seattle but that is how we like it. Early on some ruckus was on the verge of breaking out with Seahawks and Cowboys fan’s tensions running high and finally we made it to our seats. The wind was blowing and knifing through the gear but jumping around and yelling in the prelude kept us warm.

 

The Seahawks won the toss and elected to receive and on their first drive were able to put 3 points but the didn’t deter the Cowboys because they answered back with 3 over their own. Right now I wasn’t stressed since it was still the first quarter and all of a sudden the Seahawks had the ball again and were going down field. To our dismay it ended in another 3, I loved the points but was just hoping for the TD, and the Seahawks retook the lead 6-3.

 

After the kickoff the Cowboys received a miracle and they marched down field a received a TD to wind down the half to make the score 6-10 Cowboys. All of Seahawks fans were just in ah of what transpired; not being happy campers we rooted our team on (no sense in booing as that is only hurtful to a team). After the half Hasselbeck started gunning for out tight end Jerramy Stevens. The tight end out of Washington proceeded to catch everything that was thrown at him and one of those was for a TD placing the Seahawks ahead 12-10 but wait…the Seahawks go for the two point conversion and don’t get it.

 

Shortly after the Cowboys kick off returner ran a ball back for a TD to bring the score 12-17 Cowboys. What kind of horse hockey was that that he went un checked all the way down the field. Being a tad dishearten Goingbigger had to get everyone back in the game by continuing to yell is ass off!!

 

Then when it seemed that the Seahawks recovered fumbled in the enzone but the ruling on the field was challenged and won by the Cowboys and it was finally ruled a safety. With the score 14-17 Cowboys it started top look really shaky for the Seahawks but have no fear this is our house.

 

The Seahawks go back down field to get a TD and extra point to bring the score to 21-17 to force a TD to win. With the clock winding down the Cowyboys were held on the goal line and forced to kick a field goal but Romo botched a snap at the end of the game. Romo tried to run the ball in but he was kept out of the endzone to give the Seahawks the ball with just over one minute to go in the game.

 

The Seahawks moved the chains twice to run the clock down to zero and secure the win in the first round of the playoffs. The crowd when completely nuts and we all huggin and dishin out the High-5′s. Onto the next round of the playoffs and this one will be on the road. During the prefunk I watched the Colts beat the Chiefs (nice work Marcie) to continue their march to the big game.

 

Tomorrow will dictate where the Seahawks go to play next and continue their march to the Superbowl and you can guarantee I’ll be watching.

 

GO SEAHAWKS!!

Seahawks host the Dallas Cowboys

Saturday evening the Seattle Seahawks host the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the NFC Playoff race. The game is going to be good and the Seattle Seahawks are going to have to highly aware of the long ball and Romo is definitely capable of passing down the field. The injury report shows Trufant as doubtful and last time I knew that Herndon is out for a broken ankle but that isn’t on the report.

 

If the Seattle Seahawks can stop the deep ball then they have an excellent chance at beating down the Dallas Cowboys. The defense has been doing extremely well against the run game so there should be no problem stopping Jones. If Dallas can never get a run game going and the Seattle Seahawks bring constant pressure then Romo will never be able to get comfortable in the pocket and make anything happen.

 

Winning this game would be huge and give the Seattle Seahawks a lot of confidence going into face the Chicago Bears. The good thing is that they have been down this road last year and most of the team is the same that was here last year. That plays a pivotal role in how a team will perform under the pressure of the playoffs.

 

My friends and I are planning on getting to Seattle around noonish to get are pre-funk on and have some serious fun. So far the palns is to bring a TV and watch the Indianapolis game prior to going into Quest Field and having some cream cheese dogs and load up on gut bomb food.

 

I will be posting photos in the photo album after the game so come back and check them out! I love taking pictures of the games and my friends…cheers to the digital camera. Well gotta run and a full recap will be posted here after the game as well.