2008 Season Retrospective: Seneca Wallace
Field Gulls — ... mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Overview: In his final season in Seattle, Mike Holmgren loosed his death grip on convention and let Seneca Wallace return punts. There was even talk of him playing wide ...

Where does David Carr rank?
Big Blue View — ... actually has a real player they can turn to. Tyler Thigpen, Kansas City -- This guy was pretty good last season despite winning just one of 11 starts. Not a horrible safety net for Matt Cassel. Matt Leinart, Arizona -- On reputation alone. Only Kurt Warner's brilliance is keeping him on the bench. Then, I believe there is a second tier. I think Carr goes in here. The others in that group include. Seneca Wallace, Seattle. Charlie Batch, ...

NFC West Roundtable: Offense
Field Gulls — ... , doesn’t it? Passing offense correlates better with wins than any other single component of football. Seneca Wallace, a ...

Grading offense in the NFC West
Turf Show Times — ... , doesn’t it? Passing offense correlates better with wins than any other single component of football. Seneca Wallace, a  ...

NFC West Position-by-Position: Offense
Niners Nation — ... , doesn’t it? Passing offense correlates better with wins than any other single component of football. Seneca Wallace, a ...

NFC West Position-by-Position: Entire Offense
Arizona Cardinals Community Blog - Fanster.com - Voice of the Cardinals — ... , doesn't it? Passing offense correlates better with wins than any other single component of football. Seneca Wallace, a ...

2008 Seattle Seahawks Season Retrospective: Matt Hasselbeck
Field Gulls — ... Hasselbeck didn't play all season, but you can't just average Hasselbeck and Seneca Wallace. It's too messy. Wallace played in a different system and his limitations affected the play of Seattle's rushing attack. Nevertheless, we can say with some confidence, had the injured Hasselbeck of 2008 been replaced with the healthy Hasselbeck of 2007, Seattle would have been in the thick of the playoff hunt. ...

Seattle Seahawks Injury Status: Offensive Tackle
Field Gulls — ... mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Walter Jones: Jones entered the bye with hip and back problems and exited the by with hip and back problems. He was listed as "probable" in weeks 3 and 5 and played against the New York Giants. Right defensive end Matthias Kiwanuka sacked Seneca Wallace and hit Matt Hasselbeck. Jones was listed as "team decision" ...

Seattle Seahawks Training Camp Report: 8/1/2009
Field Gulls — ... Bryant sniffed out a screen pass during team drills, and also knocked down a Seneca Wallace pass attempt at the line of scrimmage. ...

Seattle Seahawks to Use Trick Plays
Field Gulls — ... Trick plays work if a team has the personnel and practices them regularly. Seattle's trick play personnel is Seneca Wallace, and so though the team is stepping up its practicing, I'm not sure this is going anywhere good. The play that precedes the above quote was a fake-reverse wide receiver pass by T.J Houshmandzadeh. Housh threw at Nate Burelson and into double coverage where ...

Notes from Seattle Seahawks Training Camp, Part 2
Field Gulls — ... as Trufant is out. Michael Bumpus is the antipode of Jordan Kent. On back to back plays, Brandon Mebane tore through Rob Sims. On the second he completed a pincers attack with Darryl Tapp. Matt Hasselbeck was the unlucky recipient of both. Ben Obomanu came back to a pass that was otherwise in traffic. That's not a skill I've seen much from Obomanu and so it was encouraging. Jordan Babineaux sacked Seneca Wallace on a safety blitz. Seattle was frequently blitzed its ...

Seattle Seahawks Starters and Reserves for Saturday's Game Against San Diego
Field Gulls — ... T.J. Duckett and Julius Jones: Should play through the first half, but how many snaps each player receives and in what situations should be interesting. The second half is the more provocative. It's when players play for their jobs and draft fans see the guys they've read so much about. It's also a telling indication of a player's position on the depth chart. Watch for these players and positions in the second half. Quarterback: Seneca Wallace will get most of the snaps, but see if Mike Teel or Jeff ...

A Brief Look at Sean Locklear and Deon Butler
Field Gulls — ... his shoulders square and parallel to Merriman, engaged him and took him out of the play. Merriman didn't move an inch once Locklear was on him. 1. Position goes both ways, and Locklear is still a little green at left tackle. On the final play of this drive, the one Ray Willis was charged with an illegal formation penalty that was declined, Lock mistakenly engaged Applewhite, a player in Rob Sims' zone, and missed Burnett blitzing untouched around the left end. Seneca Wallace faded and faded and the Seahawks looked to be ...

Seneca Wallace Eyeballs an Incompletion
Field Gulls — ... attempts to press Butler, but instead of tying him up or slowing his release, he gets chucked. Butler does this move, this move he does a lot, this move that's just so cool, where he braces the corner with one hand and gets under the shoulder pad and knocks him away with the other. The result is Cromartie out of the play and Butler a bit staggered but more than able to recover. He's free, slanting uncovered and with a clear path past the first down marker. It starts with Seneca Wallace in the pocket and Courtney Taylor in the left slot. ...

Kansas City Chiefs v. Seattle Seahawks Preaseason Game Three Preview
Arrowhead Pride — ... Three-time Pro Bowl QB Matt Hasselbeck enters his 11th NFL season and ninth with the Seahawks. He started seven games last season and owns 103 career starts with Seattle. QB Seneca Wallace (D4-03) made eight of his 12 career starts in 2008. ...

Seahawks Drop the Chiefs as KC Offense Sputters
Arrowhead Pride — ... Seahawks QBs Matt Hasselback and Seneca Wallace picked apart the Chiefs linebackers and secondary for nearly 300 yards passing. ...

Seattle Seahawks 14 - Kansas City Chiefs 10 (Winners and Losers)
Field Gulls — ... Walker: Made impressive plays in garbage time to protect him from the cut to 75. Losers Devin Moore: Cut is a lock, but does Seattle bother with the practice squad? Logan Payne, Jordan Kent, Brian Hass and Michael Bumpus: Will, short of injury,  not make the roster. Jeff Rowe: Camp days coming to an end. Steve Vallos: Enough of a problem at center that Seattle will entertain free agents. Seneca Wallace: That grimace and sullen look says: "the dreaded groin." ...

Projecting the Seattle Seahawks 53-Man Roster
Field Gulls — ... must cut its roster down to 75 tomorrow. This is news. It has already cut four players, Kevin Brown, Dan Curran, Shane Simmons and John Tereshinski. This is also news. Poor John Tereshinski couldn't even get the Seahawks to spell his name correctly. I've never found much drama in the final push to 53. Here are the guys, minus injury, I think are locks for the team. All 53. Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck Seneca Wallace Mike Teel Running Back Julius Jones ...

Ben Obomanu and Courtney Taylor Battle for Seattle Seahawks Fifth Wide Receiver Position
Field Gulls — ... Both should get plenty of looks on Thursday and both could be working out the kinks or playing for their job. Taylor has developed better chemistry with Seneca Wallace and Matt Hasselbeck, but Obomanu has developed better chemistry with ...

Winners, Losers and Projecting Seattle's 53 Man Roster
Field Gulls — ... Curt Menefee is that genius. Instead sticking to pleasantries and platitudes, Menefee put on his reporter cap and got controversial. Asking Deon Butler about the poor quarterback play at Penn State or Darryl Tapp about how he feels about not starting will not inspire an honest, insightful answer. It will cause the athlete to bristle and be more guarded and taciturn. Seattle Seahawks 53 Man Roster Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck Seneca Wallace Mike Teel Running Back ...

Seattle Seahawks Sack Oakland Raiders 31-21 to Sweep Preseason
Field Gulls — ... irritating, but Curt Menefee is that genius. Instead of sticking to pleasantries and platitudes, Menefee put on his reporter cap and got controversial. Asking Deon Butler about the poor quarterback play at Penn State or Darryl Tapp about how he feels about not starting does not inspire honest, insightful answers. It causes an athlete to bristle and be more guarded. Seattle Seahawks 53 Man Roster Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck Seneca Wallace Mike Teel Running Back ...

Seattle Seahawks Announce 53 Man Roster, Marcus Trufant to PUP List
Field Gulls — ... Running backs Fullback Matt Hasselbeck Seneca Wallace Julius Jones Edgerrin James Justin Griffith ...

Seattle Seahawks Injury Status Heading into the Regular Season
Field Gulls — ... Seneca Wallace: Wallace suffered a groin injury that looked serious at the time and kept him out of practice and the final preseason game. Look for his official status leading up to Sunday's game, because Seattle might activate ...

The Ten Seasons of the 2009 Seattle Seahawks
Field Gulls — ... is healthy today, any number of things could end that in a flash. He misses most of the season. Seneca Wallace regresses. The line is further thinned by injuries and caves. The running game exhibits its star power. One or more wide receivers is injured. ...

The Origin of SeaCat: Matt Hasselbeck to Seneca Wallace for 24
Field Gulls — ... but you do not improvise in the middle of a trick play. 5. John Carlson was running into triple coverage. That's the power of a playmaker away from the ball. 6. There wasn't a key block. The closest thing to a key block was Rey Willis blocking right corner Jonathan Wade, but Wallace was likely to pass Wade anyway. 7. Max Unger cut blocked. James chipped and Steve Vallos fell on O.J. Otogwe, but to little effect. Deception and Seneca Wallace netted a 24 yard gain. Then Matt Hasselbeck threw an ...

Inside The Mind of Rzayo24: There goes the no-hitter
The Phinsider — ... corners held their own - and D-Bess did his uncanny O.J. McDuffie third down impression. Think back to the Arizona game last year - before we were treated to an orgy of consecutive victories and division titles. I remember many of you - maybe even those who  are reading this now - saying, "same old Dolphins." Sixteen games - they all count the same. The male sex organ slap to the Patriots in Foxboro last season counted the same as that pathetic win against the Seneca Wallace led Seahawks. We just got football back - don't go ...

Seattle Seahawks 10 San Francisco 49ers 13
Field Gulls — The play after Matt Hasselbeck chugged to the goal line and paid for it, Seneca Wallace threw a swing pass to Julius Jones for the touchdown. This has been an ugly, injury wracked start to a road game. Seattle is still very much an underdog entering the second half. The Seattle Seahawks, without their starting left tackle, without their triple Pro Bowl middle linebacker, without Brandon Mebane and now without Matt Hasselbeck, are still in this.

Seneca Wallace Pump Fakes, Throws Interception
Field Gulls — ... The pump fake is supposed to freeze the safety. When you pump fake to the player you are about to throw to, it clues the safety.  Seneca Wallace pump faked a deep pass to ...

49ers 23 - Seahawks 10: Mike Singletary's Formula for Success
Niners Nation — ... 's interception of Seneca Wallace late in the third quarter, deep in 49ers territory.  That turnover was made even bigger by the ensuing 49ers drive that shaved 9:27 off the clock.  The Seahawks had some chances after that, but the long drive was pretty close to a back-breaker. ...

Matt Hasselbeck Has Broken Rib
Windy City Gridiron — ... If Hasselbeck can't go, backup Seneca Wallace would get the start and that would severely hamper the Seahawks pass game. ...

49ers-Vikings: Fox might not actually care about this matchup
Niners Nation — ... .  Can somebody tell me why a battle of 1-1 teams, one of whom will likely be starting Seneca Wallace, deserves the "better" announcing crew?  One of the drawbacks (well, one of many) of being a crappy team is getting the less than stellar announcers.  If the 49ers win this week, maybe then they can get some better announcers? ...

Answering Bears-Seahawks Questions from Nick Friedell of ESPN Chicago
Field Gulls — ... Of course. Seneca Wallace may never be a starting quarterback, but he is a very good backup. Mike Holmgren attempted to mold Wallace into a pocket passer, and though he's not, the training has done him good. He is more comfortable in the pocket and has developed some ability to read the defense. Wallace does not excel at that, and he has nagging tendencies to drop too deep during his backpedal, stare down receivers and make bad decisions. Knapp has shown a greater willingness to adapt scheme to talent. Wallace is more mobile and has a better deep pass than ...

Week 3 Preview: Bears (1-1) @ Seahawks (1-1)
Windy City Gridiron — ... , exited in the 1st QTR with a hamstring injury. Backup QB Seneca Wallace, threw a TD and an INT in relief of Hasselbeck, however the Seahawks got shut out in the second half. ...

Look Ma, a Real Opponent!
Daily Norseman — ... Bears over SEAHAWKS: Seattle is always a tough place to play, but it's not nearly as tough when Seneca Wallace is starting. Side note: how many fantasy owners that took Matt Forte in the top five will be frantically looking for a trade if he doesn't produce again this week against a team that just allowed 37 points to Frank Gore? ...

Chicago Bears at Seattle Seahawks Game Thread
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Seahawks 7 - Bears 0: Julius Jones Breaks Tackle in Open Field for 39 Yard Touchdown Reception
Field Gulls — ... The screen pass made up for a bad handoff and bad decision by Seneca Wallace. He threw pitched it the wrong direction, recovered and then ran the ball out of bounds when an incomplete would have saved 14 yards. ...

Seahawks 10 - Bears 0: Almost 14
Field Gulls — Seneca Wallace led Nate Burleson just a hair too much, failing to convert a break away for a long completion or touchdown. That brought up fourth down and Olindo Mare scored with a 46 yard field goal. It was a efficient, low-risk drive with Wallace targeting his receivers on short patterns and Julius Jones getting established up the middle. Things are looking very strong so far for the Seahawks. Seattle is already up to 80% win probability.

Seahawks Turn Great Field Position into Commanding Lead: Seahawks 13 - Bears 0
Field Gulls — It wasn't a smooth, well executed or exciting drive, but a little improv scramble and pass by Seneca Wallace to Nate Burleson gives Seattle enough to kick the field goal and charge out to a commanding lead. Seattle has broken the 90% barrier.

Olindo Mare Hooks Second Field Goal Attempt Left, Seahawks Still Down One
Field Gulls — ... A good drive, featuring great chemistry between Seneca Wallace and Nate Burleson, end with Olindo Mare hooking another field goal. That attempt, a gimme by most definitions, cost Seattle a whopping 36% of win probability. Seattle is recovering well, and have forced third and long.

Flushed out of the Pocket, Seneca Wallace Sidearms Interception to Lance Briggs
Field Gulls — Seneca Wallace can entice in spurts, but he knows how to fail fast and with maximum stupidity. The Bears pressured Wallace and he scrambled back into his end zone and to the right. Then he threw the ball, essentially to Lance Briggs. Briggs made a diving interception, but Seattle got stout and forced a field goal. Patrick Kerney sacks and forces a fumble.

Olindo Mare Expands Sample Size, Kicks Field Goal to Pull the Seahawks within One
Field Gulls — ... Seneca Wallace terrifies Seahawks fans everywhere, but Seattle scraps out a drive and scores a field goal to pull within one. T.J. Houshmandzadeh catches two huge first down converting catches. One for 13 on third and 11, and another even more impressive on a pass Wallace should not have thrown. Houshmandzadeh high-pointed the pass and fought it into possession for 14. The drive eventually stalled, but Olindo Mare gets off the schnide with a 39 yard field goal.

Try as He Might, Seneca Wallace Can't Throw Interception. Olindo Mare Kicks from 46 to Put Seattle Ahead
Field Gulls — ... On third and long, Seneca Wallace rolls out from a collapsing pocket and throws a high pass that is nearly intercepted by Al Alflava. Alflava was at maximum extension, but couldn't curl the pass into his body and it fell incomplete. On the next play Mare nailed a 46 yard kick down the middle to put Seattle up two. ...

John Owens Leaps for the High First Down Reception--SEAHAWKS ARE ALIVE
Field Gulls — Seneca Wallace rolls out and attempts to target John Carlson, but John Owens steps in and receives the pass for a first down. 46 seconds remain, Seattle is first and ten. Deion Branch catches it out bounds after a gain of six.

Seattle Seahawks Fight Hard but Fall to Chicago Bears 25 - 19
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Julius Jones Receives Behind Two Waves of Lead Blockers for 39 and the Touchdown
Field Gulls — ... caught for 39 yards and the touchdown was something to behold. It was tailored to Seneca Wallace and it caught Chicago running the exact wrong play. I am curious if anyone has seen a screen quite like it. ...

Seattle Seahawks First Quarter Notes: Blocking
Field Gulls — ... was beat around the edge once, and on another play the defensive end took him deep into the pocket. Seneca Wallace refused to step up in the pocket and instead scrambled left. ...

Seattle Seahawks First Quarter Notes: Seneca Wallace
Field Gulls — ... Seneca Wallace: Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

Shallow Thoughts & Nearsighted Observations
The Mile High Report — ... w.  I only saw the very end of the Seattle-Chicago game, and didn't care enough to record or watch the Short Cut.  What I saw, though, told me what I already knew, which is that Seneca Wallace isn't good enough to be a backup QB in the NFL.  When he was forced to throw the ball from the pocket in a compressed-time situation, and beat zone defense with strong throws, he was unable to do it.  The ...

Seattle Seahawks First Quarter Notes: Rushing and Receiving
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Fifty One-liners about the Second Quarter
Field Gulls — ... 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 50. Seattle's offensive line struggled against a still good Bears defensive line. 49. No one struggled more than Ray Willis. 48. Willis spent much of the quarter crouching, watching his man chase Seneca Wallace. 47. Robert Mathis says "hello". 46. Seattle's ...

AP Power Rankings Week 4: Murderers Row Edition
Arrowhead Pride — ... by one of the best teams in the league to beat the niners. This team is not going away. 14. Packers (13.5) I hear there is a big revenge factor in this weeks MNF game vs the Vikings. Will Ryan Longwell make the Packers pay for turning their back on him? Only time will tell. 15. Cowboys (13.8) Romo has lust his luster and the defense can't make the big play. Barber being hurt won't help them. 16. Bears (13.8) Big deal, they beat up on a Seneca Wallace led Seahawks team. Beat the juggernaut that is ...

Recap Week Four: Colts 34-Seahawks 17
Stampede Blue — ... Dwight's presence on the field was the difference between a potentially solid win and a dominant win. Indy's defense stoned Seattle's running game early, allowing the to harass Seneca Wallace all afternoon. Timely blitzes mixed with consistent pressure from the front four totally shut down Seattle's offense. With Freeney in the game, the Seahawks could not focus on Robert Mathis, who recorded 3 sacks and 2 forced fumbles in the game. ...

Starting Vince Young Against The Colts: Pros And Cons From August West
Music City Miracles — ... receiving corps.  All of those should mean that he can run more when he wants to, and not because he's being forced to. • Vince doesn't fix our horrendous secondary, but he could give the D some time to rest by not creating so many 3-and-outs and changing the field position. • Bob Sanders still isn't playing, and he won't be 100% if he makes it back this week.  I still don't buy that the Colts' D is that good (My analysis on stopping the Seneca Wallace-led Seahawks:  dismissive wanking ...

Where Do We Go from Here? A Frank Discussion about Tim Ruskell
Field Gulls — ... mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} It's a rough transition from introducing a team to vetting it, but 1-3, having been beat down in two of its losses, behind a competent-looking 3-1 Niners team and with no quarterback to rely on, Seattle's realistic chances of contending are over. What do I mean by vetting? It doesn't mean slagging Seneca Wallace for five days. Wallace is done and defined. It means Tim ...

Seneca Wallace's Top Ten Performance
Field Gulls — ... 8. Seneca Wallace SEA 33/45 257 1 0 47 39 ...

Ray Willis Excels in Secret
Field Gulls — ... , all teeth and claws and quarterback sacks, would run around him and sack Seneca Wallace's exquisitely manicured eyebrows. Except I'm-a half in and no havoc do I see. My biased heart is torn. Do I want Willis to succeed, for his good and the future of the team? Or would I rather be right? I fabricated enough evidence about ...

Matt Hasselbeck Practices
Field Gulls — ... That sounds like NFL fans won't be seeing Matt in nauseating low def. Maybe it's better that way. The frame rate necessary to display his wobblers is known to break older model TVs. Instead, fans will not get the glory of Seneca Wallace's immaculately manicured facial hair on COMCAST's Terrific RED ZONE Product, but a blury, swarthy stranger in a sea of blue, unidentifiable muck. How about getting that fixed, nation's largest cable provider. It's a national insult that AMERICA's National Passion is broadcast in Burmese quality video. Did Comcast outsource ...

Patrick Kerney's Two Seconds to Factor
Field Gulls — ... Samuel. That's the trick to Austin Collie blowing past Travis Fisher for a 21 yard touchdown. Fisher wasn't close, but Collie never broke his route. That play was practice-smooth. Collie ran his route and received a perfectly placed pass to his hands just as he finished it. Manning is also able to consistently read a defense, find a target and pass in two to four seconds. If you watch Manning, you will nearly never see him stall like Ben Roethlisberger, Seneca Wallace and, truly, almost every other quarterback, bad, good and ...

Brandon Frye Picks Ray Willis Out of a Block, and Other Havoc Created by Dwight Freeney
Field Gulls — ... A brief aside: If Seneca Wallace was trusted to audible and could effectively, this game would have been very different. What killed Seattle out of the blocks is that Knapp game-planned to rush at the Colts undersized defensive line. Any time Mathis edge rushes, he puts himself so out of position, a rusher could easily exploit that short right edge and get a free release into the second level. Indianapolis anticipated this. It was obvious from the personnel they played. ...

Game Preview Week 5: Jacksonville Jaguars at Seattle Seahawks
Big Cat Country — ... may play this week after practicing several times this week. It would certainly be a boost to an offense that has been woeful under Seneca Wallace. ...

Jacksonville Jaguars at Seattle Seahawks Open Thread
Field Gulls — ... mso-bidi-language:#0400;} I need the Seahawks to win. Win goddamnit. Let's tie up some loose ends. On Ray Willis: Greg Knapp adjusted to Willis' perceived weakness against the edge rush. Third and seven, pinned at the Seahawks 23 and down 28 with only 8:50 to go, Knapp assigned a tight end to chip the defender opposite Willis. That defender was not Robert Mathis. Mathis ran past Brandon Frye, stripped Seneca Wallace and Raheem Brock recovered. Willis faced a tough assignment and ...

Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks Statistical Preview
Field Gulls — ... Seattle is clearly better because its stats are weakened by Seneca Wallace. Hasselbeck has been sacked less and is averaging 2.8 more ANY/A than Wallace. That is worth almost four games over a full season. ...

Mike Teel Is the Smartest Man from New Jersey
Field Gulls — ... mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Everyone recovered from their Microsoft 7 launch parties? Mine was a firewall that couldn't be put out until 9pm! My fingers are still shaking from the mad customizing I was doing, but life can't be all troubleshooting and ClearType. We must be serious. We must be Seahawks fans for a second. Seattle has three quarterbacks on its roster. No one wants to hear a damn bit more about Matt Hasselbeck or Seneca Wallace. So stop looking for missing drivers for a second and think about Mike ...

BucEm's NFL Predictions! Put yours on record today!
Buc 'Em — ... give them credit for, therefor my upset of the week is Arizona in New York. Mon)  Philadelphia at Washington - Did anyone see that Philthy loss to Oakland coming? Probably not. They are a very overrated team. Their wins come against Carolina, Tampa and Kansas City while they got it handed to them by New Orleans and couldn't muster up a win against Oakland.They have had the 30th easiest schedule thus far. McNabb has been bad. How bad? Byron Leftwich, Seneca Wallace, Jason Campbell, David Garrard and Marc ...

A Long Look at Jake Locker, Pro Quarterback, After a Brief Look at Jake Locker, Amateur Quarterback
Field Gulls — ... That shouldn't surprise anyone. As I detailed with Seneca Wallace, a quarterback can create much of his own pressure. Locker creates pressure. He is hyper-vigilant of the pass rush and begins to pace in the pocket, scramble or roll out even when pressure is not applied. Against Oregon, he ran into a sack on a three man rush. The Huskies had kept a blocker in and every Duck pass rusher was double teamed. Locker wasn't sitting in the pocket and the rush was somewhat disruptive, but no Duck was free or even closing on him when he decided to escape right and ...

Jason Campbell, the Morning After
Field Gulls — ... Campbell handles real pressure with aplomb: An interesting split, no doubt. Campbell struggled against perceived pressure, but stood tall against real pressure. We have seen this same trait from Seneca Wallace. Wallace will sometimes throw a strike with men in his face and then go goofy foot against a three man rush. It's possible both simply fail to see open receivers; that both struggle to read an NFL defense. ...

Keep the Rhythm but Sell the Hooks
Field Gulls — ... Spencer got revenge. He forced back Ratliff and turned him allowing Julius Jones to cutback left and rush for six. Seneca Wallace handed off to Jones on the next snap and Jones glided for seven. Seattle had escaped jail, was first and 10 on the 29, and after keeping beat for a string of snaps, was about to punctuate the action with a series of big plays. ...

Winning with Seneca Wallace Part 1: Adding a Weapon
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Winning with Seneca Wallace Part 2: Idiot Proofing
Field Gulls — ... selected Matthew Stafford is that should Stafford develop, he will be entering his prime just as the Lions are finishing their rebuild. Wallace, for all his flaws, is learning the Greg Knapp system, has game experience in the Knapp system, is developed or as developed as he'll be (and a good bit better than Stafford or Mark Sanchez) and has a certain floor. Wallace has a certain expected minimum performance. Why Seneca? Because like it or lump it, Seneca Wallace might be the best quarterback available in 2010. A ...

Pawns in the Greg Knapp Offense
Field Gulls — ... has thrived in, that is not run through the rush game, like the proposed Seneca Wallace offense, but that is run through Knapp himself. With second and ten and Dallas up by two scores, Knapp read an overload-left blitz and split Carlson wide left. Dallas shuffled its players, and the secondary ran around, but at the snap, Carlson was wide open. Hasselbeck took a single-step drop, turned and tossed into the outstretched hands of ...

Winning with Seneca Wallace Part 3: Punchline
Field Gulls — ... in a three-headed hell dog of a rush attack. Cerberus if you will. It takes all pressure off Seneca Wallace. It attempts to make him a franchise quarterback by reducing the standards for franchise quarterback to almost nothing. The Seneca Plan is executed and aided by impeccable scouting and tremendous dumb luck. The ...

Video Preview - Detroit Lions vs Seattle Seahawks
Field Gulls — Instead of video previewing the lions and wasting everyones time - I found a bunch of videos that reminded me of certain Seahawks players.... Seneca Wallace  Patrick Kerney   Owen Schmitt   Deion Branch (NSFW and warning if you're squeamish)  ...

Drive-By-Drive Breakdown of Seahawks' 32-20 Win Over Lions
Pride Of Detroit — ... for defensive pass interference.  James barely even touched Burleson, and the pass didn't appear to be catchable anyways, as Burleson didn't seem to know where it was.  The refs thought it was interference somehow, and Seattle got 16 free yards out of the penalty.  One play later, Seneca Wallace threw a 15-yard pass to T.J. Houshmandzadeh on a reverse pass, setting up a 2-yard touchdown pass from Hasselbeck to Houshmandzadeh a couple plays later.  The snap was fumbled on the extra point, meaning the Seahawks led by a score of 22-17. ...

The Future of Matt Hasselbeck is the Future of the Seattle Seahawks, Pt. 1
Field Gulls — ... Everything that has followed has sucked. Broken down Hasselbeck is not much more valuable than General Sack-Himself, Seneca Wallace. Hasselbeck has had broken ribs, and still suffers from a throwing-shoulder injury of unknown origin. The injuries, we must conclude, have taken their toll. ...