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[Californiaskin]

Dude Im postig as SeanTaylor21 over there right now......what a bunch of idiots....check out the "How in the world are you guys going to stop portis thread" Im not even flaming and really getting smacked with a bunch of stupid posts.

[SeahawksFan93]

Hey Skins Fans- Here's a better representation of seahawks fans. The messageboard is www.seahawksblue.com . There's some pretty good fans on there, although a few will retalliate if provoked . I also don't think you should play the overlooked card. The seahawks are the kings of being overlooked. We never get much respect up hear by Alaska As for the crowd noise. It is absolutely deafening in here, and I don't think it has anything to do with piping in music. Paul Allen is a big music buff and he made sure that this outdoor stadium had the accoustics of a great arena. It should be an awesome game. If this game were in DC, I'd say Redskins by 3. If it were on a neutral site I would call it even. The home field advantage gives the hawks a win by under 7. Don't be surprised if our O-Line and RB's play better this week than you might expect. They have taken a lot of flack all season and have been showing improvement as of late. Here's why I don't think the Skins will win. Coming in with a patch-work O Line and a journeyman QB with no playoff experience is not a good mix for the hostile environment you'll be facing. The Hawk D is also much better than stats would show. Anyways, I guess we'll see what happens. It should be a great game! I'll be in Sec. 120 Row 3!

[Redskin in Canada]

Here's why I don't think the Skins will win. Coming in with a patch-work O Line and a journeyman QB with no playoff experience is not a good mix for the hostile environment you'll be facing.!

And that is the way we like it. Please do not pay any attention to what Chicago, New York, Minnesota, and Dallas have seen lately.

Welcome to the board. I am glad you represent your team well here.

[SeahawksFan93]

Here's why I don't think the Skins will win. Coming in with a patch-work O Line and a journeyman QB with no playoff experience is not a good mix for the hostile environment you'll be facing.!

And that is the way we like it. Please do not pay any attention to what Chicago, New York, Minnesota, and Dallas have seen lately.

Welcome to the board. I am glad you represent your team well here.

Thanks! I don't think they are being underestimated. I just think that is a weakness for your team. Let's face it every team in the NFC has weakensses and and the 3rd and 6th seeds, we both have weaknesses. I could list off several weaknesses for the Seahawks, but I believe (my opinion) that those two week areas will lead to the Demise of the Redskins this weekend. I also don't think your team is exactly flying under the radar. Every year the "experts" predict the Seahawks will fade and be dethroned by the Cardinals or 49ers. It hasn't happened. Now the "experts" are all going with the Redskins as their shiek pick. We'll see. Would I be shocked if the Redskins win? No, I would be surprised. The Seahawks have the best record at home for the past 5 years for a reason. In some ways, I think the Seahawks are better this year than they were the year they went to the Super Bowl and definately better than they were last year when they came 10 yards away from the NFC Championship game. Now, if only we could reign in our running game, we would be set.

[Sir_Monk]

Hey Skins Fans- Here's a better representation of seahawks fans.

You sure about that?

http://seahawkblue.com/showthread.php?t=7131

Lets not forget that Shaun Taylor...he was one of the biggest thugs in the NFL.... who lived a gangster lifestyle...I still feel disgusted everytime i see the video of him spitting in pittman face during the 05 playoff's....lets not forget that Taylor was on parole for beating someone up and sticking a gun in their face.

So this is the man the redskins choose to rally around...because he had a child and was in the process of becoming a man??? Are you kidding me??? dont get me wrong ...to die the way he did is aweful...and the people need to be punished...but facts remain...he did some pretty aweful things himself and the fates are watching!!!

I just got some bad news and cant finish this post right now...but i will

[Bob 0119]

I also don't think you should play the overlooked card. The seahawks are the kings of being overlooked. We never get much respect up hear by Alaska

Who said anything about us being "over-looked"? Everyone out there is calling the sixth-seed Redskins the team to beat in the NFC after knocking out one playoff team, and beating two playoff teams in the last four games. It's a little hard to "over-look" us at the moment.

As for the crowd noise. It is absolutely deafening in here, and I don't think it has anything to do with piping in music.

We have played pretty good so far, in some pretty tough situations. I'll take your crowd noise over the 40mph winds of NY anyday.

It should be an awesome game. If this game were in DC, I'd say Redskins by 3. If it were on a neutral site I would call it even. The home field advantage gives the hawks a win by under 7.

That's putting an awful lot of faith in your home field y'know. I think the discipline our o-line has may surprise you a little bit. We don't audible very much, so the occasional "false-start" may be what you get, but even those are fairly simply over-come.

Don't be surprised if our O-Line and RB's play better this week than you might expect. They have taken a lot of flack all season and have been showing improvement as of late.

Will they play us tougher than the league's number one ranked rushing team (Minnesota)?

Here's why I don't think the Skins will win. Coming in with a patch-work O Line

Actually, most of that patchworking was done in the first couple of weeks of this season. I'd agree with you if this line had only been cobbled together a couple of weeks ago, but we got to where we are with this very same patchwork line. Don't underestimate Stephon Heyer; Strahan did.

and a journeyman QB with no playoff experience is not a good mix for the hostile environment you'll be facing.

These past four games have been playoff games for us. If we lost any of them, we were out. He seemed to handle the pressure pretty well.

I'm more concerned about our passing defense than I am our offense. Our defense has played pretty good these past four weeks, and your crowd noise will not effect our D (as they will be quiter with your offense on the field).

I would be more concerned about us over-looking you, but you really shouldn't over-look us.

[SeahawksFan93]

The Canadian Redskin poster had said that he hoped we overlooked them like the past four teams had. I don't see that happening at all. If anything it looks like the national media has overlooked the Seahawks, once again. That was my point. I do put a lot of stock in our home field advantage. We have most victories and false starts in our building over the past 5 years. The crowd is always hyped, but with this being a playoff game and some dumb player claiming that the noise must be piped in will only make it even that more hostile. Yes, I agree that the last four games were playoff games for "you," but not playoff games for your opponents. Yes, it was a big game for Minn, but they have an unproven QB and came out really flat. Most of the guys on your team remember what it was like here two years ago, but your journeyman QB has no idea what he is in store for. Oh by the way the forecast for Saturday. 40 degrees 25mph wind and 100% chane of Heavy Rain. Oh, that and 70 thousand insanely boistorous fans. I can't wait!

[The Hogster]

I'm over there as The Hogster of course.

[LOSTHOG]

Hey Skins Fans- Here's a better representation of seahawks fans.

You sure about that?

http://seahawkblue.com/showthread.php?t=7131

Lets not forget that Shaun Taylor...he was one of the biggest thugs in the NFL.... who lived a gangster lifestyle...I still feel disgusted everytime i see the video of him spitting in pittman face during the 05 playoff's....lets not forget that Taylor was on parole for beating someone up and sticking a gun in their face.

So this is the man the redskins choose to rally around...because he had a child and was in the process of becoming a man??? Are you kidding me??? dont get me wrong ...to die the way he did is aweful...and the people need to be punished...but facts remain...he did some pretty aweful things himself and the fates are watching!!!

I just got some bad news and cant finish this post right now...but i will

Wow if you are going to crap on someones grave at least spell their name right in the post. This genius doesn't even know what parole is. Parole is being released early from prison. ST was never in prison. It is almost comical hearing everyone talking about his thug lifestyle. Just because a couple of idiot reporters portrayed him a certain way all of a sudden it is fact. That poster can talk about his character players, too bad they don't have high character fans.

[Jake]

Oh by the way the forecast for Saturday. 40 degrees 25mph wind and 100% chane of Heavy Rain. Oh, that and 70 thousand insanely boistorous fans. I can't wait!

Umm... look at the game we just played. 30's and raining with 90,910 boistorous fans. And the game against the Giants two weeks before. In the 20's with winds around 20 MPH.

You think we're not used to playing in bad weather?

And say all you want about our players not being prepared. They ALL know what to expect. If anyone wasn't there two years ago, they at least know all about it.

[JPFair]

Seahawkshuddle is a disgrace!! It is lightyears behind the rest of the teams fan sites, and has a lot to learn about how to operate a site. From reading their site, and participating in it briefly, the overall feeling is that the members are almost exclusively late teens or early 20's. They call themselves "real" fans, when they dont' know what the meaning of the word is.

In fact, I read one post where they engage in smack talk about the Redskins/Seahawks game this weekend. Rightfully they talk up their team, and Skins fans were talking up the Skins, but to trash talk the other team is one thing, and giving factually incorrect statements is an entirely different and much more telling story! Specifically, the poster, who claims to be a "real" Seahawks fan, says his usual dribble about how the Redskins suck, but he goes on to say how they're so bad that they "haven't won a playoff game since Mark Rypien was QB". Clearly, the poster didn't have his facts right before saying something so incorrect. He was obviously unaware that the Redskins HAD, in fact, defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2005 Wild Card round. So, when I mentioned that his facts were incorrect, what do you think he said? He said, and this is a quote: "it meant that they hadn't won ANYTHING since Rypien" was QB. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if he says they haven't won a "playoff game" since Rypien was QB, isn't it safe to say that he meant they had not "won a playoff game"? It kind of shows you the mentality of the posters over there!!!

And, when confronted with their classless post about Sean Taylors death? Their response was that they were having a compettition on their message board to come up with the best Sean Taylor joke.

Seahawkshuddle is about as classless as they come, and they're rapidly making a name for themselves within the f2fa world!!

[welch]

Is there another Seahawks board? Maybe we're seeing one of the bottom-feeder boards? (Said hopefully)

[Fios]

Is there another Seahawks board? Maybe we're seeing one of the bottom-feeder boards? (Said hopefully)

The one being referred to here is our official F2FA affiliate

[SeahawksFan93]

As a frequent visitor of many teams message board, I think it's safe to say that most boards have their share of morons. The seahawks ones are no different. The one I have come to enjoy is www.seahawksblue.com . Sure there are some jerks on their too, but overall it's pretty good. As for the Taylor joke, that is just pure garbage and classless. I don't care what kind of life the guy led or whatever, there is no place for that. On behalf of all Seahawk fans I appologize for that remark. I also went on and ripped they guy who made those comments.

[SeahawksFan93]

Here's a pretty interesting thread about the "dissing" of the 12th man by the Redskins. I tell you the best thing to do would be to just stay quiet about this. You are really stirring a hornets nest. There has been two teams that have called out the 12th man before (Panthers- NFC title game) and Giants (last year) and they have lost by 20+ and were never in the game. One other nugget. They were the "shiek" pick by all the "experts" also. Here's the link http://seahawkblue.com/showthread.php?t=7124

[skinsfan#33]

Here's a pretty interesting thread about the "dissing" of the 12th man by the Redskins. I tell you the best thing to do would be to just stay quiet about this. You are really stirring a hornets nest. There has been two teams that have called out the 12th man before (Panthers- NFC title game) and Giants (last year) and they have lost by 20+ and were never in the game. One other nugget. They were the "shiek" pick by all the "experts" also. Here's the link http://seahawkblue.com/showthread.php?t=7124

I don't care how loud your "12th man" is or even if they are artificially enhanced. No amount of noise is going to be able to stop Portis from getting his yards. The best run defense in the NFL couldn't do it. Dallas and New York couldn't stop him (both are top ten rushing defenses by the way).

The Chawks are #12 in yards/game in rushing D, which isn't bad, but they are in the bottom third of the NFL in giving up big plays in the running game. Only four teams have given up more rushing TDs than the Chawks.

Of the playoff teams the Skins are #2 in rushing D (yards/games) and #1 in rushing D (yards/carry). They are also #4 out of the playoff teams in rushing TDs yielded. And NO ONE in the NFL has yielded fewer big plays in the running game than the Skins (two +20 yard runs and zero +40)

Why am I only talking about rushing defense? Because of the weather forecast. If it holds true, the bad weather should favor the team that can run the ball and stop the run the best. That advantage is overwhelmingly in the Skins favor.

I must say, even with the bad weather Hasselbeck scares me. He is a VERY good QB. Even with our D playing as well as they have lately AND the bad weather, Hasselbeck will make several big plays. The question is, can Collins? He sure did in the noisy Metrodome, and in the 40 mph gusts in the Meadowlands, and in the down pure last week at Fed-Ex.

[Sir_Monk]

Here's a pretty interesting thread about the "dissing" of the 12th man by the Redskins.

[skinsfan#33]

Specifically, the poster, who claims to be a "real" Seahawks fan, says his usual dribble about how the Redskins suck, but he goes on to say how they're so bad that they "haven't won a playoff game since Mark Rypien was QB".

Sad to say it, but there has only been two playoff wins for the Skins since Ryp. Detroit in 1999 season and Tampa in 2005 season. Pretty pathetic. But hey, the Cowboys haven't won a playoff game this decade.

Unless he is talking about championships. When was the last championships for the Chawks?.....

Anyone?..., Anyone?..., Bueler?

Is that crickets I hear?

[Redskin in Canada]

As a frequent visitor of many teams message board, I think it's safe to say that most boards have their share of morons. The seahawks ones are no different. The one I have come to enjoy is www.seahawksblue.com . Sure there are some jerks on their too, but overall it's pretty good. As for the Taylor joke, that is just pure garbage and classless. I don't care what kind of life the guy led or whatever, there is no place for that. On behalf of all Seahawk fans I appologize for that remark. I also went on and ripped they guy who made those comments.

Apology noted and accepted. There are good fans in most boards too. Sometimes it takes the good ones to educate the stupid ones.

My take on the game is similar to MOST other games played by our teams: they are close and hard-fought battles. Sure Seattle is tough to beat at home and the record shows that. But stats can be deceiving at times. Similarly, the Skins and joe Gibbs in particular have an advantage in overall wins against Seattle.

This game faces two very different coaching styles and schools: The purest form of the post-Walsh West Coast offense against the purest form of the Coryell-Gibbs-Saunders school. We feel confident about our system and players and coaches. The teams know one another very well. Nobody on either side of the field is under or over-estimating anybody.

To rephrase D. Green in the present tense: we both know who we think we are.

[Bob 0119]

Oh by the way the forecast for Saturday. 40 degrees 25mph wind and 100% chane of Heavy Rain. Oh, that and 70 thousand insanely boistorous fans. I can't wait!

40 degrees? Rain? Wind? Wow, what are these foriegn weather conditions you folks have up there in Seattle.

You can just go ahead and keep thinking that our Journeyman QB is going to let us down, but you might want to consider the fact that he is not your typical "journeyman".

Todd Collins has been with Al Saunders for the past 8 years. He knows this system better than any of our other QB's. His 100+ QB rating isn't a fluke.

As for your "crowd noise" there are two great ways to overcome that.

1) Score early and take the crowd out of the game.

2) Practice with earplugs and loud-speakers to simulate the crowd noise. (Which we did prior to Minn. pretty succesfully)

Something else you may want to consider is your divison. I know you've heard it all before, but if you compare the division strengths, we had a much tougher division where none of our teams were below .500

You got to face SF (5-11) and the Rams (3-13)...twice. That's four "freebies" right there. You've only played in 6 games where your opponent has a .500+ record (we've faced 11)

You've only won 3 games where your opponent is 8-8 or better, and only one if the opponent is 9-7 or better (Tampa Bay in week 1).

You've had three losses to teams that were below .500 (we've only lost one)

We have the momentum of a four game winning streak, you've gone 2-2 in your last four including losses to Carolina and Atlanta.

I'll grant you you may have rested all of your starters last week (I didn't catch the game) but Dallas didn't bench theirs until halfway through the third, and by then it was 20-6.

As I previously stated, the only thing that concerns me about your team is our passing defense. We tend to like to keep everyone either right up on the line of scrimmage, or so deep they should have ticket stubs. However, if wind does become the great equalizer, and this breaks out into a running game, I like our chances.

[langleyparkjoe]

LOL@ all the posts

Good luck Seattle fans, its gonna be a good game.

[blowwad]

LOL@ all the posts

Good luck Seattle fans, its gonna be a good game.

I'll wish you all luck if you win but until then, bad luck Seattle fans. See you all at the game.

[LOSTHOG]

Here's a pretty interesting thread about the "dissing" of the 12th man by the Redskins. I tell you the best thing to do would be to just stay quiet about this. You are really stirring a hornets nest. There has been two teams that have called out the 12th man before (Panthers- NFC title game) and Giants (last year) and they have lost by 20+ and were never in the game. One other nugget. They were the "shiek" pick by all the "experts" also. Here's the link http://seahawkblue.com/showthread.php?t=7124

It's great that your fans are really into the team and game. Must be all hyped up on Starbucks or something. Wasn't it louder in the Kingdome though? I guess it was hard to judge because there wasn't as many winning teams during that span. I don't watch enough Seattle games to really get a feel of the crowd noise. There is usually a more meaningful game to me on that I watch instead. thanks NFL Ticket

[Tacoma Redskin]

Funny how all the biggest factor, and in many cases the ONLY factor Seahawks fans and commentators up here point to as to why they think they will win is the 12th man. Doesn't say much for their team.

By the way, I bumped into Shawn Alexander in the grocery store a few weeks ago. He fell down and lost 2 yards.

[RedskinsFreak]

I think the architechture of the facility is why it's loud -- those cantilever roof sections just bounce all the sound back onto the field.

Same effect as the overhang at RFK -- why some think the 55,000 there sounded louded than the 90,000 at FedEx.