I took the liberty of grabbing a screenshot of the most surprising thing (to me) from the video.<\/p>\n
One of these things is not like the others\u2026<\/p>\n
What the heck got into Bucky Brooks?? Brooks, who was a scout for the Seahawks after his playing career ended in 1999, has generally had a favorable view of the Seahawks. Here, he has them taking a giant step back going 7-10, tying their 2021 record. Hmmm, Jim Mora or Mike Macdonald?<\/p>\n
So, maybe Brooks just had an off day? He and John Schneider go way back. Brooks was a player for the Green Bay Packers in 1995-1996 while Schneider was there, and they also overlapped in 2000 in Seattle when Brooks was a scout. I wonder if Brooks got a text from Schneider that read \u201cBrother, thanks for the bulletin board material!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell one, the division is hard,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cBut before we get to division, this a thing I think everyone has to understand\u2014and the 12s have been through this before\u2014it is really hard after you win a title to sustain yourself the next year. Normally that next year you come back there\u2019s a few different things. There\u2019s some natural complacency that seeps in, the team is never the same, and the energy that you face from everybody is drastically different. With a team that\u2019s still on the young side, the maturity that is required to handle that is going to be a lot early.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then with the changes that you have, Klint Kubiak, who I think is one of the top five play-callers in football, he disappears. You lose the Super Bowl MVP in Kenneth Walker. You have some change that, to me, I just wonder can you catch your lightning in a bottle all over again in a division that is increasingly tougher with the Niners and Rams loading up?\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said that the Seahawks don\u2019t \u201cfeel like a 7-10 team\u201d but still stuck to his reasoning, and cited the historic lack of quarterbacks who even win back-to-back Super Bowls, with the ones who accomplished that all Hall of Fame level.<\/p>\n
The rest of the NFL official preview video was actually quite positive, and you can see that every other record prediction had double digit wins. Maybe that\u2019s why the Brooks take was so surprising. As we inch closer to the new season, there\u2019s still plenty of ammo from the \u201cdoubters\u201d to fuel the fire for the Seahawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I took the liberty of grabbing a screenshot of the most surprising thing (to me) from the video.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,50640,99],"class_list":["post-756115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}