Bad Team

John Morgan, FieldGulls:

Five games in, I have no rational hope for this team. Something has invaded this organization, its coaching, its talent, its management, that has poisoned it to its core. It's no longer a matter of a good team underachieving, this is a bad team playing to form.

It's true. The Seahawks aren't a good team playing poorly. They're a poor team.

Five games in, I have no rational hope for this team. Something has invaded this organization, its coaching, its talent, its management, that has poisoned it to its core. It's no longer a matter of a good team underachieving, this is a bad team playing to form.

During the third preseason game Mike Tirico made a comment (which I objected to) about how the team might respond if a (god forbid!) 2-3 start were to happen. Well, we're here. Actually, we're worse. And if this continues for another couple of games (at Tampa, at a surprisingly-explosive San Francisco, home vs. Philadelphia), the Seahawks will be in a position where the reasonable response will be to start planning for next year. With as bad as the Seahawks have been playing, and with Hasselbeck potentially out for a long time, it's not unreasonable to think the Seahawks will be 1-7 after eight games. At that point, the unfortunately-there elephant in the room - Holmgren's final season - will have to be addressed.

I'll hold off on the 'what to keep, what to toss' post (or set of posts) until there's nothing else to write about. For now, I just hope Holmgren can find a way to go out with his head up.