What we learned from the Seahawks Week 2 bludgeoning to 49ers

Being a journalist and being a fan, especially of the Seahawks, often come into conflict with each other when one reports on the team they root for. It’s a lesson I have had to learn the hard way on multiple occasions.

Once again, I find myself reeling at the stark contrast between what my beloved Seahawks told me they could be last week when they blindsided the Denver Broncos, widely believed to be one of the better teams in football, and what they were this Sunday afternoon, as they came out flat as a board against a division rival they had a chance to deal a serious blow to.

Seattle possessed the ball about half as often as the 49ers, ran the ball at efficiency clips we haven’t seen since before Pete Carroll took over, when the offense was trotting out the shambling corpses of Shaun Alexander and T.J. Duckett, and the defense was hard-pressed to make a single stop without leaving laundry on the field.

Seahawks learned some hard lessons in Week 2 loss to the 49ers

This predictably resulted in a 27-7 loss that would have looked more at home on Jim Mora’s 2009 squad than anything Pete Carroll has fielded to this point.

When will I learn to let things play out before I start letting my mind, and subsequently my words, wander to places far beyond reality, and I start dreaming of a Cinderella squad that can ride a 30-year old career backup QB and a smattering of role players and rookies on defense to a plausible playoff berth?

So, I suppose I learned that lesson all over again. What else did we learn?