Should the Seahawks re-sign Ethan Pocic? – Part 3

The information illiterate love sharing factoids with the info illiterate. If the recognition of this graphic signifies something, that’s in all probability most individuals.

Let’s start with the plain. I didn’t know Lids was nonetheless in enterprise. Did you? Why would anybody in 2022 pay a brick and mortar intermediary a markup? Most every part will be purchased immediately—jerseys actually can.

Regardless of the title of this infographic, that is the not the highest promoting NBA jersey by state. It’s the highest promoting jersey at Lids by state. That would signify any share of whole gross sales. Whenever you see Yao Ming and Mike Bibby as prime sellers, chances are high Lids represents a tiny fraction of gross sales in these states. Montana has one Lids location. One. Folks in a state larger than Germany with a diffuse inhabitants barely exceeding one million in all probability don’t typically drive 10 hours to the Rimrock Mall in Billings.

Information illiteracy is how we’ve reached some extent the place opposing and mutually unique opinions can appear equally supported, and the one taboo place to take is one that’s not polarized however open, questioning and reasonable.

Again to Pocic earlier than I resume the laborious enterprise of provisioning my bunker in anticipation of World Warfare III. I child. I’m by no means effectively ready.

Talking of information illiteracy, I’ll cowl this extra within the conclusion, however I’m conscious that evaluating one sport in opposition to a floundering group that was blown to smithereens the very subsequent week by the Rams doesn’t signify an all-encompassing evaluation of Ethan Pocic. I thought of sampling drives from totally different video games however that comes with its personal issues. As an illustration, on condition that I’ve already watched each sport a number of occasions, I’ll unwittingly bias which drives I choose.

I can’t, in the long run, have the ability to completely consider Pocic or his worth as a free agent. Damage susceptible gamers are additionally vulnerable to dramatic declines in efficiency, even when they’re nominally wholesome. Clearly I like this man, and I’ve championed the reason for not giving up on him for years. That biases my interpretation of the tape. However given the cheap stage of parity one finds within the league, my willingness to judge each play from the sport, the transparency of my methodology, and the truth that I at all times current the proof alongside the info, I feel this can be a strong means of tackling the issue.

It additionally isn’t an ungodly burden on my free time. Which is necessary as a result of I’m penning this at no cost. If anybody needs to gainfully make use of me, I may simply do an entire group in a pair days. If the Seahawks are keen to present BJ Finney, Quinton Dunbar and Kerry Hyder, among others, hundreds of thousands on the recommendation of some two-bit fraudsters with a Twitter following, I’m certain they might afford the 5 figures it could take to get actual intel from me.

Onward.

11:44) R.Penny proper sort out to SEA 27 for two yards (B.Baker).

Unimaginable play in run assist by Budda Baker—Rashaad Penny adroitly esses by means of a pleasant seam forming between left guard and sort out. Damien Lewis, Pocic, and Phil Haynes et al (Curhan!) have shifted the majority of the protection onerous to the fitting. Duane Brown is soundly schooled by Chandler Jones, however that failed task in all probability doesn’t matter if Baker doesn’t dash to the opening and land a kind sort out on Penny.

Pocic angle blocks Leki Fotu successfully. You possibly can see the extent of management he has within the skip-like steps Foku takes on the finish of the play. It signifies Pocic is beneath him and, if not utterly, lifting Foku off his toes. However Budda gonna Budda. Nice security play is a pleasure to observe.

(11:17) R.Wilson go incomplete quick center to G.Everett [C.Jones].

I’ll take a wild stab at this and guess Gerald Everett didn’t have a clue as to what he was imagined to do right here. He blocks Jones for a nanosecond earlier than not a lot operating a route as simply operating. Wilson boots immediately into Jones, and that’s all she wrote. The official scorekeeper determines that Everett was the goal, however whether or not it was Everett, Colby Parkinson, or the fitting hash mark is a thriller as profound and unsolvable as Zeno’s arrow.

Pocic pulls a straightforward task on Michael Dogbe. He exhibits fast toes and an excellent capacity to angle block, nevertheless it’s clear Dogbe is controlling his hole taking part in the run. So this can be a gimme. Dogbe is schemed into irrelevance. When he lastly figures out what’s occurring and turns towards Wilson, Lewis pops him. Wilson flings it incomplete earlier than unwillingly auditioning for a jobber role in the WWE.

(11:13) (Shotgun) R.Wilson go quick proper to T.Homer to 50 for 23 yards (B.Borders).

The blocking here’s a complicated mess. The play is salvaged by Ryan Stiles ranges of improv by Wilson and Travis Homer. Regardless of all of the confusion created by Zach Allen (#94) attacking two gaps to his proper, a lot of the go rush is created by Jones beating Brown badly on an inside transfer. Brown recovers, however by then Wilson’s previous ready for one more alternative to be violently assaulted. He dances to sunlight.

Homer is ready to briefly delay Jordan Hicks with a block, however when that goes south, he exhibits good consciousness to shadow Wilson on an improvised out route.

As for Pocic: he whiffs on Allen, however that doesn’t matter as a result of Lewis ably picks him up. And whereas I can’t award him full credit score, so to talk, Pocic’s heads up capacity to show 360 and see and block Marcus Golden flying free for a probable play-ending shot on Wilson is important to this working.

Not how this was drawn up, and not likely good execution of go blocking general by Seattle, what we see above is however a whole lot of gutty, heads-up play which ends up in an extended, drive-sustaining completion.

(10:27) T.Lockett proper finish to ARI 48 for two yards (M.Golden).

Tyler Lockett has each proper to self-protectively go down. And I’ve each proper to level out that he in all probability left a whole lot of yards on the sphere doing so. There’s an excellent gap there that Lockett doesn’t flip into. Byron Murphy might reside on the finish of that opening, however Murphy’s blown more than one tackle in every ten attempts. Not each group will get a Deebo Samuel or Cooper Kupp, but when Lockett doesn’t really feel secure operating this sort of play, I hope Seattle unburdens him with the accountability. Based on Professional Soccer Reference Lockett has four broken tackles total in the last four years. Deebo had 13 final yr; Kupp, 10.

Pocic just about owns his matchup in opposition to Rashard Lawrence. A Lawrence hasn’t been this embarrassed since Peter O’Toole vamped and minced everywhere in the celluloid.

(Humorous the bigoted dreck of yesteryear that’s offered to later generations as Artwork. Lest you suppose I’m unfairly criticizing a piece from one other period, know that playwright Noel Coward commented of O’Toole’s efficiency that “When you’d been any prettier, it could have been Florence of Arabia.” Yep, of us, it was offensive then too. Which might be the very best protection of cancel tradition I can muster. Assholes have been getting away with heinous shit means too lengthy. What’s the hurt if a number of of ‘em get shitcanned?)

Good play name, good execution, however Lockett is just not the fitting man to run it right here.

(9:56) R.Wilson go incomplete quick left to D.Metcalf.

Blown blocks by Curhan and Everett; Brown with nothing to do; a nook blitz acknowledged too late; and one other scud by Wilson. This play has all of it. Pocic doesn’t do an entire lot. Ought to somebody have seen the nook was going to blitz? Possibly, however I don’t suppose so. Ought to Wilson have been capable of shortly diagnose the blitz and goal DK for a giant acquire? Undoubtedly.

There’s fault to go round, however nobody made Wilson wait two beats earlier than one-hopping it to Metcalf.

(Microsoft’s X-Field Recreation Bar has been in uncommon kind immediately. Refusing to even come up, it doesn’t matter what I do. Which can clarify a few of my saltiness, as a result of that’s how I seize clips. I’ve already restarted my laptop 5 occasions making an attempt to get this factor working. However rattling if I’m not going to indicate you the sideline angle. Right here I’m going once more making an attempt to get a primary perform of this rattling laptop to work in any respect.)

Diagnosing and punishing a nook blitz can’t be past the scope of a quarterback with over 10,000 snaps beneath his belt.

(9:52) (Shotgun) R.Wilson go deep proper to D.Metcalf to ARI 17 for 31 yards (J.Thompson).

Vance Joseph will get cute. Wilson punishes him instantly. Proof that it wasn’t simply Ken Norton Jr. placing massive uglies in unhealthy spots. In Joseph’s protection, Zach Allen received a choose in 2021. Not one in all Poona Ford, Rasheem Inexperienced, Al Woods, Bryan Mone, Alton Robinson, LJ Collier, Robert Nkemdiche, Kerry Hyder or Benson Mayowa has ever intercepted a go within the common season.

This can be a completely bizarre play name by Joseph. Baker is taken out of protection. Seattle’s offensive line components just like the Red Sea giving Wilson the form of area and throwing lane he often solely sees through the precision passing occasion on the Pro Bowl. Metcalf is matched in man in opposition to a security. Isaiah Simmons is tasked with unimaginable to attain beneath protection. Joseph couldn’t have given Wilson extra benefits.

All so Dee Eskridge will be tripled on a shallow crosser!

(9:05) R.Penny proper finish to ARI 17 for no acquire (M.Dogbe).

A disorganized double group of Haynes and Pocic in opposition to Dogbe doesn’t work. Pocic shortly loses Dogbe after Haynes releases into the second stage. Haynes by no means finds anybody to dam. And although Allen, Golden and Devon Kennard all get a shot at him, Dogbe is the one to wrap Penny’s legs and safe the sort out.

Rattling if I do know what Eskridge was doing or was imagined to be doing. He appears to be like like he’s chaperoning Kennard to the ball service. If Curhan wasn’t pancaked by Golden, possibly that doesn’t matter, however he was and it did. It’s mentioned the Titanic sunk not due to a gaping gap however many irreparable cracks in its hull.

(8:23) (Shotgun) R.Wilson go incomplete deep center to C.Parkinson.

The go appears to be like inaccurate however I feel Parkinson ought to have straightened out to raised exploit the area between defenders. This can be a good go if he had.

Pocic does an excellent job of serving to out Haynes, however given the Labour of Hercules Lewis appears to be enduring in opposition to Dogbe, he might have been higher breaking proper. This one’s for Pumpkin: Who’s to say?

I do see promise in Parkinson. He’s a younger 23, and whereas for the second season he didn’t do a lot, trusting him to make the leap would be the form of sensible gamble Seattle must take. Renton might have hustle bones comin’ out its mouth, nevertheless it certain as shit ain’t received draft picks comin’ out of anyplace. A few of these borderline busts of previous drafts have to course appropriate quick or 2022’s burning up within the environment.

(8:19) (Shotgun) R.Wilson go quick proper to C.Parkinson to ARI 5 for 12 yards (B.Borders) [Z.Allen].

One other guileless Josephinian quasi-blitz quantities to nothing. Wilson runs himself into go rush, however not earlier than recognizing Parkinson and connecting for a imply 12 up the fitting sideline.

Pocic doesn’t have a lot to do. However sensing Wilson could be scrambling—maybe even listening to him run up behind him—and planting one other blocker on Fotu to bracket him is, effectively, positive. A great way to get entangled. Possibly Wilson doesn’t have such a straightforward escape route if he doesn’t.

Golden and Jones whip Curhan and Brown, however the schemed out inside rush makes that irrelevant.

(7:45) (No Huddle, Shotgun) R.Wilson go quick proper to T.Lockett for five yards, TOUCHDOWN.

Decisive learn, good timing, good placement—Wilson connects with Lockett for the rating. Good use of a shifting pocket to help Wilson’s imaginative and prescient and draw within the beneath protection. Brown is once more soundly beat. God is aware of what Curhan is as much as. Depth! Depth! Develop some rattling depth, Seattle.

Pocic does a fantastic job of teeing up Allen for a gnarly knock by Jackson. The place typically that results in a lineman with nothing to do, Pocic deftly pivots and picks up Fotu’s inside shoulder finishing the double group with Damien. Alliteration is my mind’s means of signaling that it’s dying.