Seahawks to start Russell Wilson on Friday

[Tailback U]

Preseason means absolutely nothing. I can't for the life of me figure out why any of you think different. It's like some of you just started watching the NFL.

 

[Atlas]

^Its all the god damn NCSU homers with the rest of the VSN mouthbreathers brigade, so in a sense, you are right...

:dd:

 

[seaplus]

^Its all the god damn NCSU homers with the rest of the VSN mouthbreathers brigade, so in a sense, you are right...

:dd:

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[bdub]

GTFO here with all this "it's only preseason" shit, just because something happens between training camp and the regular season doesn't mean you automatically shrug it off. If Wilson doesn't completely blow it against KC he could be eventually be the week 1 starter, plain and simple.

 

[NAHSTE]

GTFO here with all this "it's only preseason" shit, just because something happens between training camp and the regular season doesn't mean you automatically shrug it off. If Wilson doesn't completely blow it against KC he could be eventually be the week 1 starter, plain and simple.

Yeah. Pretty definitive.

 

[Cornelius]

GTFO here with all this "it's only preseason" shit, just because something happens between training camp and the regular season doesn't mean you automatically shrug it off. If Wilson doesn't completely blow it against KC he could be eventually be the week 1 starter, plain and simple.

:tellmemore:

Lions were 4-0 in the preseason of the 0-16 season.

 

[Aso]

:tellmemore:

Lions were 4-0 in the preseason of the 0-16 season.

Well Kitna got injured and then they traded Roy Williams.

But they definitely had me fooled. I was all like "ermahgerd guise, Lions arf fer rel!"

 

[Cornelius]

Well Kitna got injured and then they traded Roy Williams.

But they definitely had me fooled. I was all like "ermahgerd guise, Lions arf fer rel!"

Kitna was "injured". I think he opted out of that shitty year. Roy Williams was shit. The only reason the two of them were marginally successful the year before was because of Martz who also got the axe before the beginning of that winless season. It comes down to Matt Millen being full retard.

 

[Primetime]

:tellmemore:

Lions were 4-0 in the preseason of the 0-16 season.

I dont give a fuck about preseason either, but this post is retarded. A teams win/loss record has absolutely nothing to do with a position battle.

 

[Hasselbeck]

GTFO here with all this "it's only preseason" shit, just because something happens between training camp and the regular season doesn't mean you automatically shrug it off. If Wilson doesn't completely blow it against KC he could be eventually be the week 1 starter, plain and simple.

Panthers Preseason Stats
Cam Newton 136 yards, TD
Derek Anderson 206 yards, TD, INT

Guess that means Anderson should start right? :dd:

 

[Saluki]

That's why Wilson is starting this week though, so he can play a first team defense. If he lights it to he'll have a chance pass Flynn, who himself is an unproven QB. If Anderson was on a team without an entrenched starter he'd prob start a preseason game too, to see if he can mirror that production vs a first team defense

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[NAHSTE]

I dont give a fuck about preseason either, but this post is retarded. A teams win/loss record has absolutely nothing to do with a position battle.

You know most of the guys Russell Wilson was going up against will not be NFL players a week from now, right?

 

[Primetime]

You know most of the guys Russell Wilson was going up against will not be NFL players a week from now, right?

:yep:

 

[Hasselbeck]

That's why Wilson is starting this week though, so he can play a first team defense. If he lights it to he'll have a chance pass Flynn, who himself is an unproven QB. If Anderson was on a team without an entrenched starter he'd prob start a preseason game too, to see if he can mirror that production vs a first team defense

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And if he doesn't? Then Pete Carroll just wasted the best chance to have Flynn get more acclimated with his starters (of which he has played without Sidney Rice and Doug Baldwin in both games) because he wanted to, just for shits and giggles, see what Russell Wilson could do against starters because he lit up a bunch of guys who are days away from being cut.

I love Pete Carroll, but he fucked this up. A better solution would have been to just reverse what he did with the Titans, and started Wilson against Denver while giving Flynn the second half. Now the only great solution to all of this is Wilson comes out and sets the world on fire. Whereas a much better way to approach it would be to treat Flynn as the guy, give him three quarters with the starters.. and allow him to continue to get his timing/reps down with the starters. Then if Flynn sucks it up in September, you can make the change.. now you're setting yourself up for a quarterback controversy and a black cloud over the head of the offense all season.

Its the same thing that's going to kill the Jets season. "Competition" is great at every other position.. not quarterback. You need that ironed out ASAP. Hence why Miami went with Tannehill and Tennessee went with Locker. Moore/Hasselbeck are good options too, but you don't need that uncertainty hanging over the starters heads.

 

[Saluki]

Flynn is missing maybe 1.5 qtrs with the starters. If that keeps him from getting acclimated then he shouldn't be starting in the first place. You wanna put the best final product on the field. And it's completely possible that Wilson could better than Flynn. It'd be a worse decision to not find out and maybe sacrifice games later because the better player was on the bench.
You make it sound like Flynn is a ringer who should automatically be starting, if he was that impressive then it wouldn't matter what Wilson did. But clearly he hasn't been good enough to separate himself.

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[Champ]

NC STATE BABY

 

[MVPete]

Idk if this is the right move or not, but the Seahawks are the talk of the town around here. I'd say the Hawks/Flynn/Wilson have been talked about at least an hour a day for the last week in the chatbox.

 

[LOOMiS]

I cannot wait to hear from all the people who have been saying Russell Wilson has only had success this preseason because of playing against 2nd and 3rd string scrubs. He has had his best game so far tonight playing against the number ones. He has led Hawks to 5 scores on 5 drives.

GO RUSSELL SPROUT!!!

And yeah, lets hear some more about how stupid it was of Pete to have Wilson start week 3.....

 

[Golden Taters]

At half, Wilson is 10/15 139 yards, 2 TDS with 58 yards rushing on 2 carries. I am loving what I've seen so far.

Oh, Flynn isn't playing because of a hurt elbow.

 

[LOOMiS]

Russell Wilson could literally take a shit on Pete Carroll after a 6 interception day and Tarvaris is still gone.

And of course Wilson looks great, he's playing scrubs. That'd be like a Redskin fan saying Cousins > Griffin

So, you think the entire starting D of KC are scrubs? They obviously must be, to allow Wilson to lead Hawks to 5 scoring drives in the first half. On 5 possessions. Or maybe it was just luck.....