Though Mike Vrabel s squad didn t look like a playoff team while getting blasted by the Cardinals in Week 1, Pete Carroll and the Seahawks are bracing for a challenging test against Derrick Henry, Julio Jones, and the star-studded Titans at Lumen Field on Sunday.
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Seahawks Flashback: ‘Mudbone’ shakes off sack on final play to lead Seattle past Kansas City
This game is notable for a certain NFL record, and most folks forget that Seattle actually won .
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Maybe it was the heat . Maybe it was seeing a Ring of Honor member’s image grace the FieldGulls “Pre-Snap Reads” article last Friday . Maybe it was a little both of both. Whatever the reason, I found myself feeling nostalgic and decided to revisit some memorable performances from what has to be one of the most improbable careers in NFL history.
In Tribute to Raiderdamus
We have all heard of Sabermetrics and its use and impact in sports. Moneyball was a movie that highlighted the use of statistics to drive decisions about players and new ways to think about the game. While I love crunching through data sets to see the zeros and ones within the Matrix, I recognize that relying solely on numbers attribution is a trap. As Mark Twain put it, Lies, damned lies, and statistics . In other words, it’s possible to make the numbers dance to your particular bias. With that acknowledged, I found an interesting article on Pythagoras on the Grid Iron referenced here. https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2003/pythagoras-gridiron