Chill out 12s, the Seahawks won

Taken from Tuesday’s edition of the Ron and Don Show

Don: “I turn on some of my favorite shows in sports radio today and I listen to the callers and then I listen to some of the emails that were read and I was just shocked.

You would have thought the Seattle Seahawks lost this game last night by the way Seattle is reacting to this game.

I just want remind everybody to win a game in the National Football League on any given Sunday, or any given Monday night, everybody has a salary cap, everybody has great players. And just because Washington has struggled a little bit this year and they got blown out this week, it doesn’t mean that Seattle is still not going to get the very best shot that Washington has to give them. And that’s what they got.

The Seahawks have never played perfect football. They were highly penalized, in fact one of the most penalized teams last year, and they still went on and they won the Super Bowl.

Do you remember the Tampa game last year? Tampa Bay, the worst in the NFL. They came to CenturyLink. We were down by three touchdowns and they took us to overtime and we won that game.

Do you remember the Houston Texans, how horrible they were last year? If it’s not for Richard Sherman losing his shoe on one of the last plays of the game, he loses his shoe and he does a pick six and we’re able to beat the lousy Houston Texans.

Do you remember the Rams? I mean the Rams supposedly aren’t a very good team. I think we beat them 10-9, and they beat the stink out of us.

Do you remember the NFC Championship game? Now there’s a pretty good football team when you look at the San Francisco 49ers. If the ball was not tipped by Richard Sherman, then we do not even have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl and win the Super Bowl.

It really is a game of inches. All the players out there are good if not great, and I think the line on the game was 7 1/2. You’ve got a double digit win on the road. Yeah, you got three touchdowns called back. Were there too many penalties? Sure. But you’re on the road. You’re in somebody else’s space. There’s 91,000 out there screaming for that team in Washington.

People seem to be hating on the Hawks because they didn’t play perfect football. But they never play perfect football. This is the National Football League.”

Ron: “I was in a movie theater that was packed and they showed the game, and there was an anxiety among the fans there. At one point I pulled out my phone and I looked up the defense for the Washington team and I was like ‘man they’re being pretty tough.’ Going into that game, they were the sixth ranked defense in the NFL.

This was a good defensive team. Kirk Cousins, you could see glimpses of why there’s going to be a quarterback controversy in Washington. And they have guys that get paid too. Deshawn Jackson is a good player. He’s an All-Pro player.

Offensive coordinators are professionals. They took the tape from San Diego, they looked at the plays that worked and how San Diego won, they’re now developing a game plan. These are known quantities now.

The other think that people need to recognize as well is that NFL players and NFL teams, a lot of what you do is on rhythm.

The rhythm of the week, playing every Sunday, a certain schedule, and these guys get in that rhythm of when they do certain things during the week.

So far this season it has been completely out of any rhythm. We started on a Thursday night, then we go on an away game, then you come back then you have a bye week. So it’s been a very weird rhythm for this team. So now you’re going to get back on schedule where some of these penalties in my mind are because you’re just out of rhythm.”

The Seahawks host the Dallas Cowboys Sunday at 1:25 p.m. at CenturyLink Field. Catch all the coverage starting at 10 a.m. on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM and 710 ESPN Seattle.