Oh, For The Love Of Pete

Now, I've watched the play a few times, read Doug Farrar's take on the play and took into consideration Pete's quotes about it and I still have the same impression now that I did during the game - I liked that decision.

The Hawks went out after a timeout and Tarvaris had the option to run the play, based on what the defense showed. Everyone in the damn stadium, watching on TV, and listening on the radio, and calling the game assumed the Seahawks would just be trying to draw the Bengals off-sides by doing some motioning and a boisterous cadence. Steve Raible was talking about this on the radio as I listened to the game on my drive home from Leavenworth, and his thoughts just confirmed to me more what I believed the Seahawks would do.

We've seen this work a few times and this situation would be perfect for that type of strategy. If the Hawks are able to coax the Bengals to jump offsides, we have a first down and 14 seconds to take at least two shots into the endzone. If the Bengals stay disciplined and hold steady, the field goal attempt, after the 5-yard delay of game penalty, goes from a 20-yard attempt to a 25 yard attempt. Who cares.

Instead, the Hawks tried to catch the Bengals off-guard. They'd go from trying not to jump offsides to trying to stop the improbable Lynch run up the middle with no timeouts, which - make no mistake- was about a foot from working brilliantly. If you go back and watch the play, Robert Gallery pulls to the right to lead block for Lynch and simply misses the linebacker charging in to make the play on Lynch. If Gallery looks right and even sniffs that guy, Lynch walks into the endzone.

I've seen Drew Brees and the Saints do this exact same move on 4th down. Everyone goes to the line expecting Brees to just bark a bit and then take the penalty. Instead, he snaps the ball and takes the first down. Sean Payton won a Super Bowl in part due to his willingness to do the unconventional. Obviously, there are two sides to the coin and those types of plays are high-risk, high-reward and aren't going to work every time.
Oregon lines up (or lined up, I haven't really watched much of that this season) for two every time they score a touchdown and go for it often. Why? ...Well, why not?

I'm not advocating the Seahawks do this, but I love the unconventional nature of it.

I had the opportunity to play a season for legendary PLU Football coach Frosty Westering and one of his tenets was to almost never kick field goals. They just didn't bother. Once past the 50-yard line or so, it essentially became 4-down territory. Eh, he'd rather just get the seven. Frosty sits ninth on the list of wins by a college football coach, all-time, with a 305-96-7 record and four national titles. Frosty's motivational philosophies and teaching methods were a huge part of why he had so much success over the years and one of his main inspirations was the methods of the legendary John Wooden.

By: lisen

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