Seattle Seahawks at Buffalo Bills.
Has anyone done a wellness check on the Seattle Seahawks? 12s, are we sure this wasn’t the local recreation league Seahawks who took the field in Buffalo? What an embarrassing game from Emerald City’s football team. Everyone in the league knows that Seattle’s defense is pathetic, but Sunday’s performance was water trash bad (think of your trash when it gets wet and you have to pick it up, which is worse than just regular trash).
This one was over early. Buffalo carved up the Seahawks defense on their first two possessions of the game. They drove 117 yards in 6:36 for a pair of touchdowns. Meanwhile, Seattle went three and out to open the game. Just when it looked like Russell Wilson found his groove, the Seahawks signal-caller threw a pick in the end zone. The Bills picked up another 56 yards on their way to a field goal and a 17–0 lead three-and-a-half minutes into the second quarter.
With Seahawks-like precision, the Bills scored on almost every possession of the first half. Kicker Tyler Bass missed a 61-yard field goal attempt as time expired. Even so, Buffalo had a 24–10 at the half.
It didn’t get much better for the Seattle Seahawks after the break. Turnovers and mistakes marred their second half. At one point, Seattle closed to within a touchdown after Jason Myers nailed a 44-yard field goal with 1:56 remaining in the third quarter. That’s as close as the Seahawks got. Buffalo increased their lead to 21 points in the next 7:30. The rest is history.
I’m not sure what takeaways to start with first. The offense? The defense?
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 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.
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.
Seattle is just the team that keeps on giving… yards and points, that is. Normally, they give away all the passing yards a team desires. Sunday, the Seahawks added turnovers. Oh, they gave up 415 passing yards, but it was the pair of picks Wilson threw in addition to his two lost fumbles that sealed his team’s fate.
On a day when only one comeback was successful in the NFL, it wasn’t the Seattle Seahawks who pulled it off. Sure, they got back into the game and made Buffalo sweat for five minutes (actually 5;33), but that was about all. The Seahawks pulled within a touchdown at the end of the third quarter before Buffalo ripped off 14 unanswered points to effectively put the game to bed. If anything, that was a good lesson in how to finish off a team at the end of a game. Something the Seahawks failed to do all season.
At least there was a glimmer of hope. After an atrocious first half from the Seattle Seattle offense, they picked it up in the second half. This is a resiliency 12s like to see, along with a never give up attitude. As mentioned previously, the Seahawks gave a glimmer of hope of turning the disaster into a win, albeit briefly. Subsequently, Carson’s return will help take some pressure off of Wilson and balance the offense. I fear that Pete Carrol and Brian Schottenheimer return to days of offense’s past with more runs and less #LetRussCook.
There are more games and hopefully better days ahead for the Seahawks. Sunday, was not Seattle’s day. If they don’t make major adjustments on defense at this point, Sunday could be a precursor of future days.
Check back with us Tuesday for the Seattle Seahawks Dud and Stud of the week.