Winless In Seattle
Steve Sauro
Elliott SmithThe Man With the Plan
September 7th 2011 18:38
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Does an elaborate plan ever work out?
Recently I found myself on the road. Driving. A long way. A three day trip one way in fact.
Turns out you have a lot of time to think when you drive - regardless of how many people (5 others, including two 6-year-olds and a 1 year old) are in the car with you.
Given the fact that I was driving during both of the Seahawks last two pre-season games and could only update on my phone or via Sportscenter later those nights in a hotel - you could say I thought did my fair share of thinking about the Seahawks.
As with any hotel stay just off an interstate highway in eastern Montana or North Dakota, there isn't much to do but take the kids to the pool for an hour, put them to bed, then watch TV. Hence the Sportcenter mention above. But of course, you can't watch Sportcenter for more than an hour at night, because it just starts repeating itself. So you channel surf.
As any good channel surfer can tell you - you rarely find anything good that merits watching for more than a few minutes (or the next commercial break) before you are surfing away again.
So what did I find and how can I relate it to the Seahawks?
The 2008 race-against-time thriller, Eagle Eye. Yeah, that one.
How does this relate to the Seahawks? Well, as clearly evidenced as it's been since Pete Carroll and John Schneider took control of the team - they have a massive elaborate plan that they try very hard not to deviate from. And it takes everyone getting on board for the plan to even have a chance to pan out.
And as we all know (I'm talking to you, Dr. Evil...) elaborate plans rarely work out.
Such is the case in Eagle Eye. I won't bore you with the plot details, but a general synopsis is there is some elaborate plan to wipe out the top 8 or so of the United States Chain of Command that involves about 10 different people doing 50 different things independently or together in a certain sequence. Meanwhile, when one guy goes off course (this is the part in my surfing that I flipped to this movie), he takes off running down a desolate dirt road, and lo-and-behold, a power line snaps off the line and kills him. Just saying that if this computer has the ability to do that... what's the point of getting all 8 targets in a single room and relying on 10 different people to do 50 different things so they can all die together along with 100's of innocent people in a massive trumpet note/necklace bomb explosion?
You know how this one turns out. Shia LaBeouf saves the day like only Steven Spielberg can make him.
Last time I checked, neither Tavaris Jackson nor Charlie Whitehurst were in the same class as Mr. LaBeouf.
Maybe Marshawn Lynch is a Transformer?
Turns out you have a lot of time to think when you drive - regardless of how many people (5 others, including two 6-year-olds and a 1 year old) are in the car with you.
Given the fact that I was driving during both of the Seahawks last two pre-season games and could only update on my phone or via Sportscenter later those nights in a hotel - you could say I thought did my fair share of thinking about the Seahawks.
As with any hotel stay just off an interstate highway in eastern Montana or North Dakota, there isn't much to do but take the kids to the pool for an hour, put them to bed, then watch TV. Hence the Sportcenter mention above. But of course, you can't watch Sportcenter for more than an hour at night, because it just starts repeating itself. So you channel surf.
As any good channel surfer can tell you - you rarely find anything good that merits watching for more than a few minutes (or the next commercial break) before you are surfing away again.
So what did I find and how can I relate it to the Seahawks?
The 2008 race-against-time thriller, Eagle Eye. Yeah, that one.
How does this relate to the Seahawks? Well, as clearly evidenced as it's been since Pete Carroll and John Schneider took control of the team - they have a massive elaborate plan that they try very hard not to deviate from. And it takes everyone getting on board for the plan to even have a chance to pan out.
And as we all know (I'm talking to you, Dr. Evil...) elaborate plans rarely work out.
Such is the case in Eagle Eye. I won't bore you with the plot details, but a general synopsis is there is some elaborate plan to wipe out the top 8 or so of the United States Chain of Command that involves about 10 different people doing 50 different things independently or together in a certain sequence. Meanwhile, when one guy goes off course (this is the part in my surfing that I flipped to this movie), he takes off running down a desolate dirt road, and lo-and-behold, a power line snaps off the line and kills him. Just saying that if this computer has the ability to do that... what's the point of getting all 8 targets in a single room and relying on 10 different people to do 50 different things so they can all die together along with 100's of innocent people in a massive trumpet note/necklace bomb explosion?
You know how this one turns out. Shia LaBeouf saves the day like only Steven Spielberg can make him.
Last time I checked, neither Tavaris Jackson nor Charlie Whitehurst were in the same class as Mr. LaBeouf.
Maybe Marshawn Lynch is a Transformer?
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