Week 8 Notes - Seahawks Week

[Tigris]

Seattle got the game stolen from them vs. Cleveland. Block in the back my ass. That was a TD. Cleveland lucked out.

[Bengals1181]

[b] Wednesday quick hits: Jennings returns; Thinking aloud[/b]

[b]By GEOFF HOBSON[/b]

Posted 10 minutes ago


Bengals middle linebacker [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/rey-maualuga/72e4f750-08d1-4fa5-abee-a5cfebe1389b/"]Rey Maualuga[/url] says he’s still shooting for a Nov. 6 return against the Titans with a severely sprained ankle that is coming along quicker than he thought. He has progressed from a cast to a boot “to protect me from myself when I’m walking or standing around.” He says it’s not the dreaded high ankle sprain but a lateral one that should help speed up things…

Head coach Marvin Lewis has had to caution a very excited [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/adam-jones/70893f56-2c88-4a74-93ec-15f2886cca42/"]Adam Jones[/url] (neck) now that he’s off PUP to take it easy and reminded him he has to practice well this week in order to get activated for Sunday’s game (:415 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Local 12) in Seattle.

“He’ll be bouncing off the walls,” said Lewis of the night before what would be Jones’ first game in 371 days. “I’m sure he hasn’t got much sleep this week.” …

Teammates like safety [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/chris-crocker/2772f783-b547-470c-b074-6229e7234ebd/"]Chris Crocker[/url] are anxious to see Jones back. “You never know what he’s going to do if he gets his hands on the ball.” …

The thinking is that Jones takes the roster spot of suspended running back[url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/cedric-benson/4b42e3bf-7831-490c-97e2-523f8d4d2291/"]Cedric Benson[/url]. [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/bernard-scott/4743d5f6-4661-44c1-a6da-d2970031e393/"]Bernard Scott[/url], the man expected to start in his place, has been happily doing what everyone dreaded last weekend and is watching Cleveland’s 6-3 win over Seattle on tape. He’s impressed with the Seahawks’ 15[sup]th[/sup]-rated defense and compares it to the Jaguars’ athletic, aggressive group. For a guy that has 30 carries all season, his eyebrows were raised with the Browns’ Montario Hardesty racking up 33 in knocking Seattle from seventh to 11th in the run rankings. “I hope it doesn’t take that long,” he said before Wednesday’s practice. Scott is hoping to use the Hawks’ aggressiveness against them…

Cornerback [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/kelly-jennings/1801d27f-cbb8-42ba-ac00-d722e465ec46/"]Kelly Jennings[/url] becomes the Bengals’ fourth No. 1 pick in the last five games to play against the team that drafted him in Seattle. (Outside linebacker Many Lawson against the 49ers, cornerback [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/nate-clements/bbbf8d1c-75d6-4c45-ab56-60768094134e/"]Nate Clements[/url] against the Bills and safety [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/reggie-nelson/ac1267ca-ed4d-4887-ac69-09636c1f60ee/"]Reggie Nelson[/url] against Jacksonville with Jones poised to go against the Titans next week.)

Jennings, traded for defensive tackle Clinton McDonald just before the season, has missed the last two games with a hamstring issue but says he’s ready for his old mates: “It’s going to be strange playing against guys you know.” …
Seattle is the loudest place in the NFL and right tackle [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/andre-smith/5796e85d-6992-4b91-9630-fde615747967/"]Andre Smith[/url] says he’ll be surprised if it’s louder than playing at LSU, which he did for Alabama a few years back.
“And that was in overtime,” Smith said of Bama’s win in Baton Rouge.
Bengals left tackle [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/andrew-whitworth/3a81696e-e6b3-4abd-8dd0-85e8748fa086/"]Andrew Whitworth[/url], who played at LSU, assures Smith it is that loud. Whitworth and right guard [url="http://www.bengals.com/team/roster/bobbie-williams/05db5b12-9c1f-4a94-b6c8-61f72348303f/"]Bobbie Williams[/url] are the only ones left from that 2007 offense that lost out there in the last minute, but Whitworth played both left and right tackle spots that day…


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It's Seattle week at Paul Brown Stadium. LB Rey Maualuga still walking around in a boot with ankle injury. Goal is to play at Ten Nov 7th.[/font]
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[url="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23bengals"][s]#[/s]bengals[/url][color="#444444"] roll call: Not practicing -- Howard (hamstring, working on side field), Maualuga (ankle, not working at all) and Rivers (PUP)[/color]
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[Tigris]

Did it ever surface what actually happened to Rivers?

[JC]

Any word on T-Jax or Lynch?

[Cricket]

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It's Seattle week at Paul Brown Stadium. LB Rey Maualuga still walking around in a boot with ankle injury. [b]Goal is to play at Ten [u]Nov 7th.[/u][/b][/font]
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Why would he set his goal to play in Ten a day after the Bengal-Titan game?

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TE Zach Miller, RB Marshawn Lynch and C Max Unger will return to practice today, albeit in limited fashion, and will be game-time decisions.[/font]

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Tarvaris Jackson took the first-team reps during walk-thru this morning and will share snaps with Charlie Whitehurst in practice this week.[/font]

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[url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15852717"][b][color="#3b5998"]9 minutes ago[/color][/b][/url] - by Paul Dehner Jr. - [url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15852717"][b][color="#3b5998"]Lewis looking to avoid bye-week letdown[/color][/b][/url]
Teams coming off the bye week are 3-9 this season. That's a disturbing trend as the Bengals travel across country to Seattle following a week off. Marvin Lewis said he was especially intense Monday and Wednesday this week to help avoid a letdown. "I don't want to be that stat," Lewis said.

[The PatternMaster]

After watching the Hawks/Browns game last week, I know the Bengals think they should easily beat them...however that is not always the case. I'm worried about this team getting over confident because of the recent success and positive media coverage, they have to keep that "nobody respects us" mentality and prove themselves every week.

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After watching the Hawks/Browns game last week, I know the Bengals think they should easily beat them...however that is not always the case. I'm worried about this team getting over confident because of the recent success and positive media coverage, they have to keep that "nobody respects us" mentality and prove themselves every week.
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That's often a fear of mine, but I'm thinking the coaches can remind the team about what happened in Denver. long road trips against teams that look easy aren't. We'll see.

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[url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15853402"][b]26 minutes ago[/b][/url] - by Paul Dehner Jr. - [url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15853402"][b]CB Jennings finally shaking hamstring injury[/b][/url]
CB [url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/player/413735/kelly-jennings"]Kelly Jennings[/url] has only played in half the games since arriving from a trade with Seattle. A hamstring injury haskept him out of the last two games. The bye week came at a perfect time as Jennings believes the injury is finally behind him. "I am feeling good," he said. "Preferably, that is the end of that."


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Marvin Lewis on avoiding complacency by pushing his team harder coming out of the bye week: “We’re not going to relax and ease back into mediocrity. I’m not going to allow them to do that. There’s a certain standard that’s expected and we’re going to try to hold and exceed that as much as we can.”

[Bengals1181]

FYI, the team is going out to Seattle on Friday rather than Saturday. Good news.

[Bengals1181]

Listening to Jay Gruden on Bengals Gameplan and he's talking about how the seahawks like to play single coverage and talking about being excited because he knows he has AJ Green, and also talking about how Jerome Simpson does a good job with bump and run coverage.


You may want to start Andy Dalton this week if you have him.

[T-Dub]

How long does Jennings remain the 3rd corner with Jones coming back?

[Bengals1181]

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How long does Jennings remain the 3rd corner with Jones coming back?
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at least one more week IMO. Marvin has talked about how excited and pumped Jones is. I think they limit his role this week and just let him get his feet wet so that he doesn't make a costly mistake. If Jones is too amped up and excited, he's liable to over puruse a play or try and jump a route that could cost the defense. This defense is built on people doing their job, being disciplined and not trying to do too much. I think they ease him in so that his excitedness and possible over aggresiveness doesn't cost them.

[T-Dub]

^ wouldn't be surprised to see him get a few shots at returning punts

[bengalbutch]

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^ wouldn't be surprised to see him get a few shots at returning punts
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[b][size=6]Rookie wideouts for Bengals, Seahawks rise on different paths[/size][/b]

[b][size=6]Bengals' A.J. Green is as advertised out of college, but Seattle's Doug Baldwin is a surprise.[/size][/b]

By Danny O'Neil

Seattle Times staff reporter



The pair of rookies are separated by nine catches, but a good six inches.

Cincinnati's A.J. Green stands 6 feet 4, was the first receiver chosen in this year's draft and leads all rookies with 29 catches.

Seattle's Doug Baldwin is 5-10, wasn't among the 28 receivers drafted, and his only pre-draft visit was with the New York Giants that consisted of little more than an introduction to coach Tom Coughlin. But Baldwin has caught 20 passes this season, tops among the Seahawks and fourth-most among all rookies.

"It doesn't matter what situation you're in, anything can happen," Baldwin said.

Baldwin is the inspiring surprise to this Seahawks season — a player that wasn't even invited to the NFL scouting combine who leads the team in receptions.

Green's success is a fulfillment of all the expectations heaped upon him when the Bengals chose him in the first round, No. 4 overall.

"This is what we really expected," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said in a conference call with Seattle-area reporters. "We felt like he was the one or two players in the draft that could make a difference."

That cuts to the core of the difference between a slot receiver and someone who lines up on the outside as a split end or flanker and is a threat to blow the lid off any defense.

"They make touchdowns," coach Pete Carroll said of those outside receivers. "Really, it's simply that. Sometimes they make touchdowns all by themselves."

That's not to undercut the importance of a slot receiver. They are essential to an offense's ability to sustain drives and find the cracks in the coverage schemes. The outside receiver is less subtle, providing a constant threat of going over the top.

A lot will be made of the success of Cincinnati's rookie quarterback, and Andy Dalton deserves that. The Bengals' 4-2 record is one of the biggest surprises in the NFL. The best rookie in Cincinnati, though, is Green, who has shown exactly why he and Atlanta's Julio Jones were considered the two top-flight wideouts available in this draft.

"A.J., he's got that stuff," Carroll said. "He's got that quickness, he's got that explosion, he's got the confidence and he has a marvelous catching range. He can make catches that other guys can't make, can't get to."

A year ago, Green was just one of the guys. Every week at Georgia, Green would go to the same Italian restaurant — Carrabba's — with his quarterback and fellow receivers, a group that included Kris Durham, who is now a Seahawks rookie. Green blended into the crowd.

"If you didn't know what he looked like, you wouldn't know who it was," Durham said. "He's very quiet, very to himself."

It's impossible to overlook him on the field, though. He stands out, and not just because he's 6-4.

Danny O'Neil: 206-464-2364 or doneil@seattletimes.com






Catch a rising star



First-round pick A.J. Green leads all rookies in receptions while undrafted Doug Baldwin ranks fourth.



Player

Ht.

Drafted

Rec

Yds

TDs



A.J. Green, Cincinnati

6-4

1st round (4th overall)

29

453

4



Julio Jones, Atlanta

6-3

1st round (6 overall)

25

358

0



Greg Little, Cleveland

6-3

2nd round (59 overall)

25

234

0



Doug Baldwin, Seattle

5-10

Undrafted

20

330

2



D. Sanzenbacher, Chicago

5-11

Undrafted

19

172

3



Greg Salas, St. Louis

6-1

4th round (112 overall)

15

158

0



Titus Young, Detroit

5-11

2nd round (44 overall)

15

209

0



Denarius Moore, Oakland

6-0

5th round (148 overall)

14

212

2






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[b][size=6]Sure win? Not over improved Bengals[/size][/b]


DAVE BOLING; STAFF WRITER

Published: 10/27/11 12:05 am


RENTON – Admit it, Seahawks fans: When the schedule arrived, you went down the list of opponents and made little Ws and Ls beside each one as a projection for how the season would play out.

And when you got to Cincinnati on Oct. 30, it was one of those you didn’t have to give a second thought before putting down a bold “W” – probably in ink.

But the Bengals will be favored when they come to Seattle with a 4-2 record, trailing Pittsburgh in the AFC North by only half a game, and featuring the No. 2-ranked defense in the NFL.

All of which makes it look as if that “W” is going to be a lot harder to come by Sunday for the Seahawks (2-4) than anybody could have imagined.

Credit coach Marvin Lewis for changing the stripes on these Bengals. Lewis is a rare coach who has stayed employed by the same club for nine years despite having only two seasons above .500.

At the end of last year’s 4-12 campaign, Lewis’ return was in doubt, with uncertainty reported on both sides. But Lewis came out of his meetings with president Mike Brown, and after his own assessment of all the things that went wrong, announced: “I will fix us.”

Apparently he has, but the fix required widespread change.

“I told the football team before I ended the season last year that if I were standing before them to start the new year, there would be a new look to this football team,” Lewis said via conference call Wednesday. “We’ve made those changes and we’ve moved forward and we feel good about it.”

At one point during his call, Lewis referenced “additions by subtraction,” which could apply to a number of changes, including the departure of flamboyant receivers Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco, and contract-refugee quarterback Carson Palmer.

Lewis also replaced longtime offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski (a former Seahawks assistant) with Jay Gruden, the younger brother of former Buccaneers and Raiders coach Jon Gruden.

But most notably, the Bengals used their first two draft picks on receiver A.J. Green (No. 4 overall pick) and quarterback Andy Dalton (third pick in second round, No. 35 overall). Green leads all rookie receivers with 29 catches and four touchdowns.

It was a bigger trick, though, to find a rookie quarterback who could be so effective without so much as an offseason workout. Dalton has put together a passer rating of 84.2 – higher than Palmer’s was last season, as well as higher than current ratings for the likes of Mark Sanchez, Cam Newton, Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan and Kevin Kolb.

“We liked his maturity, his experience playing, the way he’s handled every situation he’s ever been in,” Lewis said of the appeal of Dalton. “The game has not been too big for him.”

Dalton, from TCU, was one of the rookie prospects the Seahawks considered in the draft. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said that he and GM John Schneider “liked everything about him” when they scouted Dalton. But they took tackle James Carpenter in the first round thinking they needed to build the offensive line before bringing in a young quarterback.

It’s working to the Bengals’ benefit at this point.

“We added guys that were very, very talented with our first two picks who have made huge contributions and upgraded us in both areas,” Lewis said.

The Bengals still have to play tough divisional foes Pittsburgh and Baltimore twice, so the path gets tougher the rest of the way.

Still, they matched last season’s win total in only six games, and their retooling of the staff and additions of key young players give them the look of a team on the rise.


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[size=6][b]Seahawks QB a Halloween nightmare[/b][/size]


No one knows when Jackson is healthy, and no one knows where Whitehurst’s confidence is. Not to worry — Seahawks are only playing the NFL’s No. 2 defense Sunday.

Do the Seahawks coaches Sunday play their better quarterback, Tarvaris Jackson, and risk aggravating his injury?

Or do they trust in the backup, Charlie Whitehurst, knowing he’s coming off his worst career game?

Or do they just direct-snap to the nearest running back and hope the Cincinnati Bengals are dumb-founded into haplessness?

These are the kinds of questions that teams confront when they enter a season without a franchise quarterback.

When coach Pete Carroll and GM John Schneider chose after the lockout to let go of Matt Hasselbeck, they knew they were at risk of a nightmare. It is upon them now — on Halloween eve, no less.

As of Wednesday, they didn’t know what they were going to do for a QB. They might know by Friday. Then again, it might not make a difference. The Bengals (4-2) are ranked second in the NFL in total defense (278-yard average) and fourth in points allowed (18.5). It’s doubtful the video of either Jackson or Whitehurst has created flop sweats among the defenders.

“We’ve got to get Charlie ready because we know he’s ready to go,” Carroll said Wednesday. “But we’ll work to bring (Jackson) back . . . is what it amounts to now.”

In the wake of a desultory 6-3 loss in Cleveland Sunday, the notion that Whitehurst is ready to go has to be Carroll’s shakiest statement since he said he didn’t know what was going on with Reggie Bush at USC. Then again, the return to playing health of RB Marshawn Lynch, TE Zach Miller and C Max Unger, none of whom played Sunday, might do wonders for Whitehurst’s QB rating.

No one really has a clue. Just as they don’t have a clue with the strained pectoral muscle that has been bothering Jackson. If he doesn’t play Sunday, it will be 20 days lost.

The medical staff “is going on what T-Jack’s telling them because there isn’t a long history of quarterbacks who have tried to play with this specific injury,” said offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. ” I think they’re kind of playing off each other.”

The shrugs over the QB position at the VMAC Wednesday were so massive they could have knocked down a viaduct, were one handy.

Since there’s no predicting the outcome of a muscle strain, particularly one that is part of the throwing motion, Jackson, even after his return, could re-injure himself on the first downfield heave.

None of this is a surprise to anyone who feared for Jackson’s well-being since his arrival, knowing the state of the offensive line that was thrown together without the benefit of a normal spring and summer of practice. But there was an uptick toward averageness as the season progressed for the line and QB, apparently climaxed by the 36-25 upset of the Giants in New York – the game in which Jackson was injured.

But the results in Cleveland with Whitehurst as a starter were so pitiful that it’s possible to suggest the offense has regressed to Week 1 levels (or have you forgotten the 219 yards of total offense, with three turnovers, against San Francisco?).

Conventional hindsight says that the Seahawks wouldn’t be in this mess if they had kept Hasselbeck. Which is true insofar as Hasselbeck staying healthy. Except he wouldn’t have, because he lacks the elusiveness and youth that got Jackson as far as he made it.

Here’s the difference: Whitehurst would have known from the git-go that he was Hasselbeck’s back-up. But when Jackson was handed the job by Carroll with word, not compeititive deed in practice, it was disheartening as hell to Whitehurst.

There was no reason for him to think that Jackson, based on his play in Minnesota, was automatically better than he was. Then, after a flicker of hope against the Giants as an injury replacement, Whitehurst blew a chance in Cleveland and proved the critics right.

He’ll likely get another chance Sunday. But who knows where his confidence will be? He and the coaches will say all the right things, in part by making the credible point that nearly everyone on offense contributed to the epic pratfall.

But it remains the burden of the backup quarterback to manage the game and not lose it. Others can win it. When Whitehurst could not lead the team to a single touchdown in a game that was never out of hand — meaning the Browns defense couldn’t load up on a team attempting to pass while behind – it cast serious doubt. The outcome became not merely a loss but a major setback.

Its devastating nature might push Jackson and the medicos to get him back in the game, at some jeopardy to the rest of his season.

“There’s a certain level (of play) that you have to meet,” Bevell said, “so he’ll have to tell us how close he is to that.”

But as was discussed with this injury, how does he know? How do the docs know? As a proven tough guy, what’s keeping him from lying about it to get in the game?

The Seahawks’ own decisions with Whitehurst say what they think of him. Then he underscored it Sunday.

This was the fork in the road Carroll and Schneider chose when they quit on Hasselbeck — the long way around. But they can’t avoid the short road to Sunday, and the NFL’s No. 2 defense.





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[url="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Bengals"][s]#[/s]Bengals[/url][color="#444444"] LB Thomas Howard dressed and practicing with team today. Maualuga only one not practicing.[/color]
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[Marvin]

Great news!

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[url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15866519"][b][color=#3B5998]Oct. 27, 2011 12:47 p.m.[/color][/b][/url] - by Paul Dehner Jr. - [url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15866519"][b][color=#3B5998]Crocker: Seattle QB's Jackson, Whitehurst very similar[/color][/b][/url]
DB [url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/player/395940/chris-crocker"][color=#3B5998]Chris Crocker[/color][/url] doesn't envision much changing regardless whether Tarvaris Jackson or Charlie Whitehurst starts at quarterback for Seattle. "Both of them are mobile," Crocker said. "Tarvaris hasn’t run a lot, he’s a move the pocket type of guy, but he’s athletic and can run. Whitehurst, he gets out of the pocket a lot. It’s the same offense, just different guys."



[url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15866254"][b][color=#3B5998]Oct. 27, 2011 12:18 p.m.[/color][/b][/url] - by Paul Dehner Jr. - [url="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/15866254"][b][color=#3B5998]Peerman vs. Seahawks' Washington a match to watch[/color][/b][/url]

Reserve RB Cedric Peerman has developed into an invaluable asset. He's the first player to receive the special teams game ball in consecutive weeks in the nine-year tenure of coordinator Darrin Simmons. Peerman will be particularly integral against Seattle KR Leon Washington, who’s second in NFL history with seven kickoff returns for touchdowns.