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Well, Seattle D is about as good as it gets so some of the mismatches we will look for have more to do with us than you....but we have struggled doing that as effectively vs Seattle. Another aspect will be interesting to see how much of it was Quinn. Right now, an argument could be made he may have been a bigger key than some admit to. Cam is a mismatch in general so as always, we will rely on the mismatches he simply presents to every single opposing D. I think there is a realistic argument he is the biggest matchup issue in the NFL by virtue of his ability and the fact Carolina/Cam show no fear in deploying him. The obvious in terms of Seattle has been the consistent issues that have popped up all season long with teams making more key plays with the TE in years past. I know after the last meeting Hawks tried to downplay it as a simple blown coverage but I would argue it was a blown coverage b/c they often have struggled with that position. Saw it last week in crunch time. 2 plays to the TE late set up the Vikings to win. The TE in Carolina is probably the focal point of our O in many aspects. as far as when we are on defense...every Seattle game IMO our defense has had huge opportunities. We have failed. But they are always there. Sometimes it gets refered to as Wilson being lucky....but really it is Carolina failing to capitalize when they force Seattle into plays that should be a negative that for whatever reason we simply don't finish on. For whatever reason often some plays that we should be able to really hurt Seattle on have resulted in huge plays for them. I think Seattle probably feels the same way in that they can get Cam to make a mistake and historically they capitalize. I would say this season has been different in that Carolina has capitalized on those plays probably more so than any team in the NFL....and our turnover ratio should make that pretty apparent. Seattle was forced by RB injuries to shift what they do but overall I think both matchup well and are a tough out for each other. Games usually come down to a handful of obvious plays that determine them. I expect another tough game. I think Carolina comes into this one at different confidence level than any other meeting...and they should. People won't say it, but I think on the flip side Seattle might have legit reasons to have a little more doubt than prior meetings as well.

Hendrix was born there....looked around, and left

Seattle definatelty gets credit for 90s grunge. That's it.

well, it seems you guys are focused on the past and not the present. Present day is the 2015-2016 season. One in which Carolina has beaten Seattle head to head and been the overall better team. I mean does a game years ago against rookie Cam, Steve Smith, different coaches, etc mean much today? Old belts are in your house. Ain't no one worried about those... Seattle this year has flaws prior teams didn't. Also hard to deny this MVP Cam caliber team is different too. Should be an epic game

You are welcome to share your thoughts and opinions. They do can be pro-Seattle thoughts. But you can do that in a semi- adult manner. Those rules apply to Panther fans and most definately apply to guests who visit the site for a week and fail to return after their team loses. Let's calm it down with the insults please.

Well, we could of lost more games like Seattle did....and then as a by product more of our opponents could of had winning records.

lol...Bleacher Report. Counter to the statements. 1. Seattle is 0-1 since the departure of Dan Quinn. Quinn has stopped Cam in Seattle and with Atlanta. Seattle without him hasn't beaten Cam and now has weaknesses in their armor that have shown all season. LOB never had that with Quinn,mono weakness ...which is why they could and did adopt the LOB nickname. With the way they consistently been beaten late in games I am not sure how they keep the LOB tag. 2. Carolina went 15-1, by that sheer fact it impacts the the potential of opponents that could have winning records. If they would have lost there games then 7 teams they played would have had winning records. Fuzzy logic. 3. Yes, Seattle was missing players and had injured guys. So? It is the NFL. We have played games without Kelvin, Luke Kuechly, Kalil, Stewart, Tillman, Bene, Ginn, Cotchery, Etc.....and went 15-1. 4. Again, Irvin has sacked Cam but living in the Dan Quinn era is sad. also, Cam flat out takes sack. Part of how he has to play to make his plays. 5. Yes, Carey Williams is gone.....yet last Sunday in the 4th Q the Vikings marched down the field and exposed the same issue that has plagued Seattle since the start of the season. 6. Yes, Carolina is down two CBs that played last game. So? See #3. No excuses. 7. Correct, Carolina didn't force a turnover vs. Seattle and that was the only game they failed to do so. They still won. On the road. What was the point you were making? 8. Okay, and again, Carolina still won. They still won and that was before Cam started rolling. 9. again, we still we still won. I mean the the author keeps thinking that suggesting we beat Seattle yet didn't do X means something. Seattle would needed to of won that game for this points to hold weight. 10. And one again, Seattle lost. So again, all the "points" are made as if Seattle actually won. Since they didn't....they aren't points. It just throws Seattle into the mix of literally every single opponent....we beat them all ( we had a loss, but still beat them) in 2015 Carolina has shown to be the better team. Doesn't mean they win this weekend. They have to remain that and no reason to think they won't

No, he is taking credit b/c he almost blocked a different kick. You know what every team almost does in almost every game

Yes. Seattle flat out got lucky to advance. Simple and plain. It happens in sport.....if you can't acknowledge that then you can't talk sports. PI is PI....and it came on the one thing that has hurt Seattle all year when they have lost. Trying to cover a TE. They went right back to it and he made another play on Kam. It is called a weakness of Seattles. Then the Vikings missed a chip shot 99% made gimme. Seattles two best plays were a missed 99% made chip shot by Minny and a botched snap that went back 10 yards and Seattle needed the breakdown of a botched play to help them actually go score. You got as lucky as lucky can get. You aren't the first and won't be the last to win a game you shouldn't have.

Here is what Seattle fans think 101. hey, Seahawks D is so much better now! LOB BABY!! (Ignores the fact they got abused by a TE last weekend in the 4th to put the game away. Basically as recently as a week ago showed they are what they have been all year. Ignores the fact they played a bunch of arena league caliber QBs to improve their stat sheet) hey, Panthers are worse!!!! (Ignores the fact Cam was playing just okay early on in the season when we played and beat them. Then Cam went utterly insane and became the MVP QB. Which is who they will face now)

You boasted your D is now better and things will be much different for Cam IF you come to our house. IMO, little supports that and brought up your schedule. I think Cam will be the 2016 Cam IF you come to Charlotte. Nothing about our schedule suggests otherwise. Difference would be our D vs your O in a rematch. You can talk about that. That is a legit conversation. That would be where your focus should be.

Okay, AZ still put up 30 on you. So did Pitt. so since Carolina you have done what on D? You can hang your hat on the last AZ game if you want. Bc outside of that the Seattle D got better only bc they didnt have to deal with offenses....and cashed on joke offenses

Palmer put up 39 pts on that D in Seattle. Then they get to play Jimmy Clausen, the Browns, Forest Gump maybe....and it makes it look like they are tough on D statistically. Good teams have scored on Seattle, bad teams haven't. Simple as that. So nothing suggest Seattle is going on the road and shutting down the highest scoring O in the NFL. (Unless it is a week 17 game where teams have shut it down themselves)

Btw....since that game you played SF, SF, Minn, Baltimore, Cowboys, Clev and St. Louis. So that means little in this conversation. you have 3 other games...and you gave up 30 to both AZ and Pitt. so that means you have 1 game since Carolina defensively worth talking about. Last week. And last week it looked AZ mailed it in so....why shouldn't we expect Cam to make plays again?

Ok.....and Cam is playing much better football now and won't be on the road. And your D should get better on a stretch against the 49er, Cowboy, 49er, Viking, Raven, Brown, Ram offenses.... I mean you literally improved when you played the worst of the worst. Then you split with the Cards and beat Pitt (giving up 30 in 2 of the 3) So you played 2 teams and basically ever other team was a collection of the worst offenses the NFL has to offer. Any teams D should see a nice surge down that stretch

Pretty sure Dan Quinn has a great record vs Cam. Worth noting Dan Quinn gave Carolina their 1 loss this year. new guy? Pretty sure Cam ain't been stopped by the new DC in Seattle. Pretty sure new guy had a very hard time with Cam (what did Cam have, 4 80 yard TD drives in Seattle? And Cam has upped his play since then) but if you want to talk about Dan Quinn? I mean, we can but his Falcons are out of it

Um, is this thread a response to a Seahawk forum thread....where you guys are bashing Cam as inferior to Mr. Nanobubbles? As as for post about wins. Yes. The Seahawks team has more wins than Carolina. They were a better team. But I guess this is the part where you claim a team with a historical D and a team that passed less than any other....should give most of the credit to Wilson?

I didn't say it would be stopped. I said brought down to Earth some. I mean you can look at the last 2 and half years of games prior to week 9.....and it simply is irrelevant. Seattle is doing something new. New always takes an adjustment period. Doesn't mean you can solve it but you can play it better. That is just football. Really irrelevant to what it is but when a team makes a drastic change that works it takes awhile for others to adjust teams got better at stopping the read option once there was more tape on it. Doesn't mean you can stop it simply bc you are a little better at defending it.

There WRs are better than ours. Give defenses a RB/QB run threat of Cam and Stewart and that alone is going to open up plays for those caliber of WRs. Cam sets up a lot bc of how defenses are forced to play. GB actually has tons of issues presently. People just talk about the WRs. More than their talent is the issue in GB IMO. Heck if you watch Cobb on the year half he routes the OC had him running weren't even designed for him to make a play. Mike McCarthy shouldn't of turned over play call duty. Now he is late to the party trying to figure the pieces out....and confidence across the board looks shot

Wilson, historically, his play from the pocket has been questioned as a weak part of his game most of his great career. in fairness, he has displayed a new found skill for a recent 7 game or so stretch....so everyone isn't going to recognize it right away. I also think he will come down to Earth some soon....it was such a big change for him and your scheme. Now NFL teams will soon have more and more tape to gameplan for the changes which always brings crazy stuff down some. But he has been great of late in ways teams aren't use to seeing. Carolina for example can probably throw out the Seattle offensive film from the first matchup. Gameplanning for that would be pointless.

I agree. Carolina has the weakest WRs in the postseason and it isn't a debate

Russell Wilson is a damn good QB. He does certain things better than Cam. If you disregard their teams around them..... Cam simply can do more overall and presents more issues. All that is simply bc Cam has a Julius Peppers body to play QB with. Means he presents a mismatch no one has ever dealt with....and Cam makes the most of it bc he elects to be a pure football player and not a traditional QB. It likely will cost him one day bc he elects to be a power RB that legitimately does care about contact. Both are very different. Not sure why we can't let different be different. Cam deserves the MVP and Russell deserves recognition for taking a step forward and finally showing he can be elite and out of a Lynch oriented O where he makes plays off it

Cam could take the immediate sack. But keep in mind if he does that....all the times where he bails back and then makes a play only Cam can make (like the crazy NE run)....those won't exist anymore either. so if you want those crazy great plays you have to be willing to take some bad

Any Hawk fan claiming the Jimmy Graham injury hurt them should punch themselves in the face. really can argue Lynch as well...Seattle didn't look good until they changed their O focal point b/c of RB injury.

bottom line is Cam is having a better year and we still owe Seattle. Don't think this team doesn't remember who sent them home last season.