I must be missing something because with the seattle defense all over nick foles i feel the rams get throttled by the hawks easily in this anyone else???
You just keep focusing on Foles and his potential mistakes. What about the rest of the team? They are division rivals who know each other well, Rams have played Seattle close in the past (remember the fake out punt return game from last year), Rams have a solid defense, Seattle has some personnel issues. Also, the biggest factor I think is how will Seattle react from their SB loss, especially the way they lost. Will they carry that hungover loss into the opening game? Sometimes a play like that and a loss like that can carry over into next season. You have to consider all of these intangible factors and not just assume Seattle is Seattle and therefore it will be easy to cover the 4 point spread. Seattle at times struggles on the road plus this is a 1pm EST start time for a west coast team to open the season (Stanford went into NW on an early clock and pretty much sleep walked through the game last week).
Very true i just keep the image in my head of the old seattle defense and the nick foles when he played for my eagles. So im guessing no one likes this game besides me?
russell i agree with your analysis. it is my belief that foles was a product of the offense run by chip kelly. all qb's seem to look good in that offense. a product of the system if you will.