Ornery and unrepentant, the Seahawks are back
Totally avoidable penalties that are habitually committed? Check. Emotional sideline outbursts? Yup. After my initial concern, I've decided this is a sign that Seattle is back.
Count me among those who find D.K. Metcalf’s penalties to be as annoying as they are avoidable.
Not annoying enough to indulge in the ridiculous idea of trading him, but avoidable enough that I rolled my eyes when I listened to him explain to reporters that he would not — in fact — be changing the way he played earlier this week.
I was a little more bothered to hear that Seattle safety Jamal Adams has been fined $50,000 by the NFL for what sounds like a second confrontation with one of the unaffiliated head-injury consultants the league assigns to each team during a game.
Television cameras had caught him shouting at and even moving toward, the independent evaluator in Week 4 at the Giants. Adams had just been diagnosed with a concussion, though, and I could understand how emotional it might be to be knocked out of a game by injury so soon after returning to the field.
To have another incident in the very next game? (Big sigh) Seems like Adams is intent on being an asshole to someone who is not only just trying to do their job, but whose job is to look out for the safety of players like Adams.
As I thought to myself about the ways in which various Seahawks seemed to be acting up, something occurred to me: This is the kind of stuff that tended to occur back when the Seahawks were really, really good.
I mean, not exactly. I don’t recall anyone shouting at doctors back when Seattle was atop the conference, but there were certainly plenty of sideline shenanigans and an awful lot of avoidable penalties back when Seattle was running roughshod over the rest of the NFC.
So maybe … the Seahawks are back?