The "Ask a Seahawk Fan" Thread

[Chief_Chokeaho]

Yeah, my pops did 10 years in the 82nd. I'm desperately trying to get there after this assignment.

[Razeyfingers]

I just have one question for this team,

 

If Lynch's eyes were closer together dont you agree that his vision would be able to penetrate all forms of matter?

[Chimera]

They shot at you? Didn't you show them your glow belt?

 

No, those were so the Air Force didn't crash planes into us.

[Chimera]

I'm an E5. The majority of senior NCO's in today's military love to play politics and could give a rats ass about the soldiers. That's why I will never make it past E7. My joes will always come first.

 

Slick sleeve CSMs were the bane of my existence.

[Chief_Chokeaho]

Slick sleeve CSMs were the bane of my existence.

Lol YES. I've been in a little over 4 years and already have 21 months in Afghanistan.

[Chimera]

The Army is much larger, as it is designed to be an occupying force. I'm combat arms. We do have a chain of command that we use. I'm a team leader and my 4 joes are my responsibility and it works its way up. The support units and jobs in the Army don't work like that. 

 

They do. But support guys typically look out for themselves first and foremost. They don't have that brotherhood. The platoon sergeant is chasing tail. The sergeant is that tail. The Staff Sergeant is brewing alcohol. First Sergeant then has to micromanage.

[Chief_Chokeaho]

They do. But support guys typically look out for themselves first and foremost. They don't have that brotherhood. The platoon sergeant is chasing tail. The sergeant is that tail. The Staff Sergeant is brewing alcohol. First Sergeant then has to micromanage.

Lmao. This is the typical morning:

1sg: Great day for a 5 mile run.

Soldiers: awe man

1sg: 10 mile run

Soldiers: A great day indeed 1sg.

[Wilson Is A God]

Aside from being the brother of Mark McGwire, and a giant POS that we drafted ahead of Brett Favre, he also knits! 

 

 

The winter can be pretty dreary.  Spring is hit and miss.  Summer and Fall are beyond amazing.  This year it was warm and sunny for 95% of the summer. 

 

 

Not really.. playing the AFC West every 4 years in meaningful games kind of killed that.  I mean we play 3/4 of the division every year in preseason, but it's not the same.  I guess the closest to a "rivalry" with an AFC team is with Denver just because of the Super Bowl and seeing them again this year.. but most of our rivals are NFC West teams now (namely San Fran and St. Louis) 

 

 

A combination of things.  First and foremost.. they just dominated on offense and defense.  Special teams is what kept us in the game as we blocked a punt and returned it for a score.. then they muffed a punt deep inside their own territory, which we scored on a few plays later. 

 

This was when Percy Harvin was still on the team, and we were hell bent on using him.. so we were forcing the issue with a lot of jet sweeps and bubble screens.. none of which worked.  Then the Cowboys basically played Cover 1 Man all game and dared the Seahawks to beat them.. which for the most part they were unable to do.  Defensively, Maxwell and Wagner left early with injuries.. though Wagner would return to try and play (he'd later miss the next 5 games) .. couple this with Kam Chancellor being broken, no Jeremy Lane or Tharold Simon.. and it was just the perfect storm of crap.

 

Honestly, the Cowboys are not a great matchup for Seattle because they have the OL to protect Romo and run the ball.  They played a great game that weekend.

You forgot the part where we had them deep in there own territory on about a 20yds to get a first on a third down late in the game and somehow Romo pulled it off. A fingertip sideline catch that was a great pass and catch but something that Romo couldn't do again if his life depended on it.

It was a close hard fought game and they had more TOP but that is because Wilson is just more efficient and scored with fewer plays. Romo played well but struggled in long drives aided by Seahawk penalties several times. They were not playing keepaway like San Diego did. They just took a long time to drive and get points. Like I said Wilson just roared down the field and put up points with little effort and wasted clock.

Dallas deserved the win but then so did the Seahawks. It was close right down to the wire. It could have been either team's win. It just happened to be Dallas's day.

[USMCHawk]

I was at the Dallas game and their O-line was pushing us around all day. We were only in it because of a special teams TD. They earned than W and we're lucky it was as close as the score indicates. That said, that 3rd & 20 conversion was a heartbreaker. Wagner had Romo for the sack and ran right past him; so uncharacteristic.

[2plankingpanther]

Lol YES. I've been in a little over 4 years and already have 21 months in Afghanistan.

What kind of fuged up poo did you see in Afghanistan?

[Chief_Chokeaho]

What kind of fuged up poo did you see in Afghanistan?

The 1st time? More than I would rather talk about.

The 2nd time was enjoyable. I got attached to Special Forces (10th Group) and got to do a lot of really cool stuff. Or did I? Who knows. Maybe I wasn't even there.

[RickyManningJr]

I don't think most think about Montana one way or the other. I've gone there for work a number of times, is there something specific you're looking for?

I have some family there and have been there several times, so I was curious. I personally love Montana, was just curious how their almost neighbors felt.

I went to a sports bar in Missoula and there were several people there with Seahawks jerseys, but a majority wanted to watch the Packers?

[O-Ther]

What kind of fuged up poo did you see in Afghanistan?

 

Most guys that were there will never talk about the fuged up poo. There's just no way to imagine the difficult choices they had to make in tough situations when American people have life so good and are therefore insulated from how different life is overseas.

 

I didn't serve, but I grew up around it since my dad put in over 20 years. One story I overheard was an IED was detonated and shredded a Hummer. Column had to stop and help the wounded, that's when the shooting started. Typical ambush tactic. At the back end of the column, an Afghani wearing a suicide vest pops out of a house close by and starts hauling ass towards the last vehicle. He is shot dead. They see a 10-12 year old boy come out of the same house about 200 feet from this guy fell dead, and the boy starts sprinting to the body. Nobody wants to shoot a kid, so they let him. Then this boy picks up the guy's AK47 and shouts "Allah Akbar"

 

Not going to tell you the rest.

 

 

[cbarrier90]

The Seahawks lost Golden Tate and Walter Thurmond among others from the Super Bowl squad last season. Though they appear to have picked up right where they left off, as the bill comes due on more impact FA (Lynch, etc) and most notably the extension for Wilson and the (inevitable) losses of Quinn and/or Bevell from the staff, are you concerned about having a drop off like we just saw the Niners have with Kaepernick? 

 

Not saying they will implode spectacularly like the Niners did (Seattle FO situation is much better) but just a regression in terms of year-to-year performance.