Eric D. Williams took over the Seahawks beat and Seahawks Insider blog in December. Williams has covered the Seahawks, Sonics and high school sports for The News Tribune since joining the paper in 2006. Eric lives in Tacoma with his wife and two children.
Tacoma News Tribune columnist Dave Boling also contributes to the Seahawks Insider blog.
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Gil said QB Matt Hasselbeck has been handling the frustrations of rotating receivers very well, and has not shown the frustration that you'd think would be evident. He said now it is up to the receivers to do their jobs of getting open. When I asked why Courtney Taylor's decent practices have not been transferring to the games in terms catches, he said he didn't know. Gil said Courtney will remain as the starting flanker with the hope that he can develop there with more experience. They just hope that he develops more quickly than he currently is.
Gil said both new receivers did very well on Wednesday, and he expects to see more out of them today. He said Hasselbeck needs to develop a rapport with them this week.
Gil continues to be complimentary of Tight end John Carlson. He said Carlson is easily the best tight end they have had here. He said he still expects him to get 40-50 receptions for the season, and they would be pleasantly surprised if he gets more than that.
A few things they have learned about Carlson: He has great body control and has the ability to adjust to balls that are thrown off target and still catch it. He also has the ability to go down the middle of the field deeper than they initially thought. He is a better blocker than they thought he was.
COMMENTS:
If I see Courtney Taylor drop another catchable pass I'll lose it, because he has no excuses. Most of the passes thrown to him are on point.
At some point later in life he'll be able to tell his kids that he was a bum in the NFL when he was younger and he had the opportunity to do great things, win the love of an entire city and play a key role in Holmgren's final year in Seattle. But instead it'll be a story of how he just had to step up and keep trying but his "hard work" didn't show up at game time. But if only you could have seen him practice!! Oh the practices!! Geez
The pictures are actually of Taylor and Ruskell together. They both blow.
I wish the media would get off our receivers for a little while and talk about our pathetic 25th ranked defense. If I remember correctly, Lofa predicted 5 shutouts this year. Has be been drinking again?
11 returning starters, even though they blew the Green Bay game, overall we had a good defense. I even predicted a top 10 defense this year, which could change. But two weeks into the season and they're at #25? This is the same group of guys who accomplished a lot last year and this is what happens?
I can only think they're keeping Taylor because he played in a couple games last year, so that plays into experience I guess. But he just stinks and he talks too much for a guy who hasn't done squat!
jmreid8 - His job is to catch the ball. That's it and the occasional run block. Not talk about how he's going to work hard all week so that he might be able to help the team out by catching the ball in the next game. He can't run a route and catch the ball. So what kind of WR is he?
My previous point was that unlike Kent, Taylor can get open, he has a problem catching the ball right now, and my speculation is that there are a lot of reasons why young players have a problem with that early in their career, but if you let taylor gain some confidence those incompletions may become game breaking plays (you know he has the ability to catch the ball he's been doing it since pee wee football and apperantly he's been catching the ball in practice).
jmreid8 - MAY become game breaking plays? Unfortunately we don’t have the luxury right now of waiting for young guys to realize their potential to become game breakers. They just need to focus on being receivers. Run your route, catch the ball, line up for the next one. We’re not a game breaking play away from winning, there are a lot of simple plays that are left out on that field. And I know he has the ability to catch the ball; my question is how come he can’t do it when it counts? Pee wee’s, high school, college, fine he can play in those leagues. All I’m saying is step it up because the hole in the boat might not be getting bigger but we’re still endanger of sinking if you can’t do your part. If Matt can’t look to you because he doesn’t have confidence that you can make a play on the ball then why have him out there at all? Now we’re just giving their DB’s a chance to take a snap off.
I see your point and unlike Kent, Taylor very quickly penciled in as the starting flanker, which made his chest, his head and his jaw swell with undeserved pride. I’m not saying I would have liked to keep Kent instead of Taylor on the roster, in fact I didn’t even mention Kent at all. Of course young players struggle early in their careers, not everyone can come out and have 100 yard games like DeSean Jackson in their rookie year. All I’m saying and it seems as though lots of others here are seeing the same thing, is that Taylor can’t do some of the basic things right, like finishing your route or creating separation from his defender.
Basically if Taylor can't catch more than two passes for 20 yards then I hope he's been working on his place kicking cause that's the only way he's staying on the active roster.
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