This can be spin, sure, but just makes more sense and makes me think he was still the right guy even more. A very good approach and helpful to the team even in departure, I appreciate that.

and excuse.

Seattle currently leads the league in Adjusted Games Lost by starters due to injury, through week 6.

To be clear, this only counts games missed so far, not games known to be missed later (like Urlacher being on IR).

(For comparison, we were close but didn't lead the league, in 2008, although counting offense only we far transcended anything else ever tracked by the stat)

The hope? We're one of only 11 teams that don't have any impending AGL. Now, you and I know we won't get Walter, Locklear, Trufant, Tatupu, Hill and Sims back for Dallas. We know Lofa will be out, so come to think of it the impending thing is already wrong.

But it serves to illustrate, the injuries *are* enough to make a significant impact on performance. After two years it starts to feel artificial, and there's no reason to start thinking no one else will get injured during the final 10 weeks, but those flashes of a team we think really can be pretty good, is still in there somewhere, and there's still a chance that it comes out this year.

This is about the most fascinating BnB report ever, and not just because of the Seahawks notes. The Harvin, Boldin, Jenkins, Samuels and Odom bits are very insightful to both football and the human body.

Danny O'Neil twittering, too.

Danny O'Neil wrote a story about Seattle using a hurry-up offense. Or no huddle, at least. To be honest, I didn't even notice it. To what extent have we been using it? Has it been as effective as he makes it out to be? Can you break down the effects it is making? How have teams been responding? How do you think it suits our personnel?

Seattle remains higher than most of us would probably anticipate. No opponent adjustments account for a good bit of that, though.

Always look forward to when these come out. The most interesting part is the differential from top to bottom in DVOA and strength of schedule has gradually increased, from then til now. Schatz says seeing the trend, it's no surprise the first ever 16-0 and 0-16 teams happened these past two years, and then asked, why is this happening?

I already commented in the thread there, that I figure it has to be league expansion. When was the last significant league expansion, prior to 1996? The Seahawks and Bucs? I don't know the answer, but in 7 years the league expanded by 4 teams, and since then we've had two roster expansions (and Polian is lobbying for another). I can't think of anything that comes close to the significance of expansion, in the raw numbers of run-pass ratio, high draft pick busts, or anything else.