Seattle opened week 1 of their 2014 NFL season strong against the Green Bay Packers. The Cheese-Heads took a beating 36-16 as the Seahawks unveiled a few new wrinkles on offense. But Dangeruss and his crew on offense weren't the only ones getting the job done last Thursday. The Legion of Boom held the Packers in check, despite their no-huddle offense. And once again asserting dominance by reputation, Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers avoided cornerback Richard Sherman all night.
Despite showing a few tricks in their offensive scheme, the Seattle way has much more to do with doing things the right way. Hard-nosed football, with a touch of grace and deception, is a long-lost dark art in the game of professional football.
But Coach Pete Carroll has it in spades. He insists on focusing on the fundamentals first. Strategy, then, is much simpler to employ (via Sports Illustrated):
"As it has always been throughout the Pete Carroll era in Seattle, this team's success is about execution... And because Seattle's defense is more about execution than formation, Green Bay's insistence that it would play more no-huddle against the Seahawks backfired pretty severely."
Richard Sherman, for example, executes so well that he often doesn't get a chance to show his skills on game day. Green Bay quarterback openly admitted to avoiding Sherman throughout Thursday night's game. Rodgers even had a message for Sherman after the game (via ESPN):
"'I think I said, "I hope you get some work this year,"' Rodgers said on his show. 'By that point, I knew that we hadn't really looked to his side or thrown to his side, and I just said that to him, and I think we kind of laughed about it and went on the way.'"
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