Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Owning Your Mistakes

The idea for these Adopt-A-Seahawks pages were to pick a player and then follow him throughout the Season, providing the other fans here at 12 Seahawks Street with insights and updates about your guy.

When I picked Kelly Herndon as my adopted Seahawk, I imagined writing Monday articles about his interceptions, jarring hits and stellar performance. Unfortulately, my guy did not have too good a day on Sunday, getting burned twice for completions of over 20 yards.

But in the interest of full disclosure, I'm going to post a recap of his efforts anyway. This seems to be in line with Kelly's character too, who is not afraid to own up to his mistakes in the game. From the game summary piece on the Seattle Times site:

"You know what's going on, you know the situation," Herndon said. "You just wish you would have made this move or jumped this route or something like that."

After watching the Monday Night Game, my guess is that Mr. Herndon will get his wish as soon as this Sunday, as the Falcons will probably test him every time he's in against their bigger and faster receivers.

It wasn't all bad for Kelly on Sunday either. He and Michael Boulware were the second leading tacklers for the Seahawks, registering 6 each, one behind Marcus Trufant.

He also had what many fans perceived as a boneheaded play on special teams, but in fact was a very heads-up maneuver. Late in the game the Jaguars punted and the ball was touched but not controlled by the Jags. Herndon picked up the loose ball and attempted to advance it, not getting very far.

Uninformed fans were shocked that he would take such a chance deep within our own territory. However, once the ball was touched by the punting team, the receiving team can attempt to advance it, and in the case it was fumbled or "muffed", the Seahawks would retain possession at the spot of the original touching.

I'm looking forward to him building on this kind of heady play, and getting more opportunities against Atlanta to showcase his coverage ability (like the acrobatic interception against the Vikings in preseason) and his hitting prowess, so next week's article contains more highlights than apologies!

4 Comments:

At 2:51 PM, Blogger JoSCh said...

Test alba. I think all I really said is that he'll get plenty of chances at getting his picks because he'll be picked on, although not if Tru continues giving it up too. I was really disappointed in our whole secondary last week. Jimmy Smith, I could cover Jimmy Smith, he's old... lol.

 
At 3:19 PM, Blogger albaNY Hawker said...

Thanks Josh. I got spammed here so I put in the comment confirmation thingy. I might take it out though to see if that helps more people leave feedback.

 
At 12:43 PM, Blogger albaNY Hawker said...

This is another test comment

 
At 12:51 PM, Blogger albaNY Hawker said...

How come the previous comment wasn't emailed? Hmmm?

 

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