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Saturday, August 13, 2011

New and Improved Hawks?

Today I will be attending the Seahawks Training Camp Practice. Just coming off an ugly preseason win in San Diego, I am expecting a very hard, grueling, in-your-face type practice. I'm hoping. Even though it's preseason, there is no excuse for stupid mistakes. I hope the Seahawks take their time at practice seriously and the fans get to witness some spectacular plays on the field.

For one, I hope Jackson gets most of the reps behind center. Coach declared him as the starter and obviously, he still needs some work getting in sync with his teammates.

Special teams is another area that needs some work. Both the return team and the kickoff team. To let the kid from San Diego take it 103 yards back for a touchdown off a kickoff in the preseason is just unacceptable. Let's work on some tackling perhaps??

Now, the O-Line. What to say......well for starters, Okung is out again with his "hurt" left ankle. Really? Again during preseason? If the Hawks have any chance of winning some huge games, the o-line needs some improvement. It's their job to protect our QB and with a hurt QB, well we're done.

Secondary time! The secondary is a huge part of the team now. With Lofu gone as a leader on the defense side of things, another leader will have to emerge and take charge. With the size of Jennings being slightly smaller than the normal wide receivers, he will have his work cut out for him again this year. Hopefully his uses his quickness to disrupt the players routes and get ahead of them.

Kicker. I'm excited for the kicker this year to be honest with you. We got Jeff Reed from the Steelers and to my knowledge he is a great kicker. We also have Coutu from Georgia.  Reed might be a little rusty, but he will work on it and get better.

RB-Lynch, Washington, and Forsett. Very good-looking group. I'm hoping for some more earth-shaking runs from Lynch again this season. Forsett is growing and with Washington there to give a little more advice to the younger Forsett, it should be a good season. Seattle hasn't had a prominent RB since Alexander...maybe this year someone will step up...

Our receiving core looks pretty good. Rice, Tate, Stanback, Bulter, Carter, Obomanu, Williams, and Carlson at TE. We got some big names in there. Obomanu was a surprise last season and hopefully he can bring it again this year. Tate was always there for the big, long balls down the field last year-good addition. And of course Mike Williams and Rice are amazing athletes. Both have the ability to make the spectacular plays with their huge hands and their size will be a great advantage to the team.

Overall, I'm excited for the season to start. Good QB. Working RBs, and a great WR core. Let's see what these guys got.

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