Weekend Football Roundup - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

It was a huge weekend for the Seahawks... And their fans.

 By Jeremy Conlin (@jeremy_conlin) and Joe Parello (@HerewegoJoe)

Every Tuesday during football season, editors Jeremy and Joe will bring you the good, the bad and the ugly from the college and pro football weekend that was. 


The Good

Everything The Seattle Seahawks Do 

I mean, we all saw that game, right? Russell Wilson didn't have a ton of success throwing the ball (just 8 for 19 for 142 yards and a passer rating of 63.9), but pretty much everything else that happened in the game went Seattle's way. Their pass rush was overwhelming, they stopped inside runs before they even started, they forced turnovers, and generally beat up the most physical team in the league. We're only in Week 2 but I wouldn't be surprised if three months from now we looked back and decided that beating the 49ers by 26 points was the most impressive win of the season by any team.

-JC

Seattle's 12th Man

Not only did Seattle's football team dismantle division rival San Francisco on Sunday night, Seattle's coffee drinking, flannel wearing, Nirvana cover band forming fans also set a Guinness World Record for loudest stadium. The Seahawks' now famed 12th Man achieved the two highest decibel levels ever reached in a stadium, first 131.76 decibels in the first quarter, then 136.6 decibels during a third quarter goal line stand.

There wasn't much reason to cheer in the fourth, as the first 11 men of the Seahawks took care of business early down on the field. If you're curious, the 12th Man broke the previous record of 131.76 set by fans of the Turkish soccer club Galatasaray S.K. Haha, suck it Turkey! USA! USA! USA!

-JP  

The Official NFL Week 2 Primer (With Picks)

Russell Wilson hopes to put Seattle at the top of the NFC West with a win over San Francisco. (Flickr)

By Jeremy Conlin (@jeremy_conlin) and Joe Parello (@HerewegoJoe)

Welcome to Overreaction Weekend.

Everyone went into the season with pre-conceived notions, and many of them were trashed in Week 1. Both of us feel it - we were both under .500 by a good clip in our Week 1 picks. Week 2 is a balancing act - you have to really weigh how much one game really matters, and even beyond that, you have to weigh both sides of the coin. For instance - a lot of people picked the Colts to regress, and a lot of people expected Oakland to be one of the worst teams in the league. So when the Raiders cover a 10-point spread against Indianapolis (and almost win the game outright), does that mean the "Colts Regression" camp was right, or does it mean the "Oakland Sucks" camp was wrong? Or is it both? Or is it neither, and the game was just a fluke? It's only one week, so nobody knows for sure.

In other words, let the overreactions begin.