Seattle Seahawks: 6 takeaways from 44-34 loss at Buffalo
Run Game
Seattle Seahawks run game? Run game? Run game? (said in the Ben Stein voice from Ferris Bueller’s day off). Buffalo’s former vaunted run defense showed up today; they had been missing all year. As a team, the Seahawks averaged 3.4 yards a carry using a tablespoon of Deejay Dallas with a pinch of Travis Homer and Alex Collins. Dallas was serviceable, picking up 31 yards and a touchdown for his efforts on the day. The loss underscored how important Chris Carson is to the team.
Seattle’s offensive “defense”
Seattle lax pass defense made Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen look like a front runner for MVP. Allen threw for 282 yards in the FIRST HALF! That is sometimes his yardage for a FULL game. Allen only missed 7 of his 38 pass attempts, finishing with 415 yards and 3 touchdowns (he added one more with his legs). Receiver John Brown almost went for 100 yards, but Stefon Diggs did go over 100 yards.
Some positives? Here’s one, the Seattle Seahawks defense held Buffalo rushers to 34 total rushing yards for an average of 1.8 yards-per-carry. Also, the defense sacked Allen seven times. Jarran Reed led the way with 2.5. Returning Jamal Adams had 1.5 sacks while Carlos Dunlap, Bobby Wagner, and K.J. Wright got one each. In short, it’s nice to see our important pieces back and making some plays. Then again, Allen had time on most of his dropbacks to pick apart the Seahawks wounded secondary.
Kitchen Nightmare
Chef Russ was just on his own Kitchen Nightmare today. He tossed two more interceptions, that’s five picks in his last three games, while throwing nine touchdowns. For easy math, that’s slightly less than a 2:1 TD-to-INT ratio, not something we’re used to seeing from him. The good news is that Wilson’s still on pace for the record for most touchdown passes in a season. Lest we all forget, Russ can run because it seemed like he forgot. Wilson had two carries for five a one-yard plunge for his first rushing score of 2020. It was shocking considering RW3 was knocked down a 2020 NFL-high 16 times.
4️⃣ turnovers for Russell Wilson 🤯pic.twitter.com/vu7IKMhz1P
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