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Thursday, December
14, 2006 The Seattle Seahawks need to make San Francisco 49ers there treat this Thursday. Last week against the Arizona Cardinals the Seahawks showed not only a let-down, but a melt-down. No rhythm, no tempo, no sense of urgency against the Cardinals. Fumbles, not taking care of the football; the Hawks need to hang on the ball if they want too win games. "Back-dooring" your way into the playoffs is not a good way to go in. If the Hawks loose to the San Francisco 49ers this Thursday the Hawks will be back-dooring their "way-off" with no "lay-off". If the Hawks beat the 49ers they would clinch their third straight NFC title. On offense Seattle needs to strike first with either a touchdown, or field goal out the gate. Matt Hasselback and Shaun Alexander must play within thereselves. Both Hasselback and Alexander fumbled the football last week against the Cardinals. The Seahawks offensive line must also play better against 49ers. The Seahawks O-line allowed too much penetration against the Cardinals. The Hawks must convert on third and shorts. Opponents feed off your [momentum] when they stop you on third and one. Seattle will be without their leading wide-out Darrell Jackson, who leads all wide-outs in the NFL with 10 touchdown catches. Nate Burleson [15-175yds-2td], D.J. Hackett [30-423-3tds.], and Deion Branch[41-572yds-4tds.] must step up. The NFC defensive player of the month of November was 49ers conerback #27 Walt Harris. Harris who leads the 49ers with 6 interceptions, had two interceptions against the Hawks in the first meeting [week 11]. Hasselback must make good decisions when throwing the football with Harris lurking. OlB #56 Brandon Moore of the 49ers leads Frisco in sacks with [6.5]. On the end the 49ers will be lead by the 13th year veteran #97 Bryant Young. Young who has 5 sacks, will be bringing it from the end for the 49ers. Last week on defense against the Cardinals the Hawks failed to put any pressure on Arizona Quarterback Matt Leinart. Seattle must not only put pressure on 49ers Quarterback Alex Smith, but first they must try to somehow contain 49ers running-back #21 Frank Gore. Gore ran through the Seahawks defense in week 11 with 212 yards. Frank Gore, who has been one of the biggest surprises in the NFL this year, has rushed for 1347 yards 5.6 avg. and six touchdowns. He also has 49-rec.-384 yds. Quarterback and future of 49ers, Alex Smith has shown great strides this year. Smith has thrown for 2,344 yds. and 13 tds. Smith has a few weapons along with Gore, such as wide-out #81 Antonio Bryant 38-717yds18.9 avg.-3tds. Bryant likes to make big plays, for long yards. The others are 49ers wide-out #83 Arnaz Battle [43-478 yds-3tds.] and rookie tight end #85 Veron Davis. Davis at 6'3 250lbs runs a 4.3 in the 40 yard dash. Davis has only played in 7 games due to injury. Seahawks corner-back #23 Marcus Truburnt who got beat twice last week against the Cardinals for touchdowns needs to quit watching the quarterback and start watching his man who's leaving him in the dust. Tru-burnt only has one int. this year. "Picked on with one Pick" … "can you say toast". The Hawks defensive-line must put pressure on 49ers Quarterback Alex Smith, and contain and wrap up running-back Frank Gore. Opponents have converted 45% of the time on third down conversions against the 49ers defense this year, while the 49ers have only converted 23% of time on third down. Also the 49ers offense has scored only 23 touchdowns this year while their opponents have scored 40 tds. The Hawks must set
the tempo by running the football on long drives that will tire
the 49ers defense. The Hawks west-coast offense this year has looked
more like a Southwest Omelette. "Control the clock on offense
and the Hawks will be able to control the game" -Dre206 |