Seattle Seahawks Dud and Stud of Game 3 – Atlanta
The duds were a little harder to determine this week than they were after the San Francisco game. Harder but not incredibly difficult. These are the worst of this week’s loss.
Second Dishonorable Mention
Let’s start with someone who doesn’t usually make this list, left guard Damien Lewis. As one of the veterans on the Seattle Seahawks offensive line, the team counts on him to be steady. His performance was neither veteran-like nor steady.
This was especially true in the fourth quarter. Lewis had two separate holding penalties that ended up killing those scoring drives. The offense was already struggling in the second half, and he seemed to add insult to injury with his play.
Results might have been different without Lewis’ mistakes.
Pete Carroll on @SeattleSports says "it was a legitimate hold" officials called on left guard Damien Lewis on the Rashaad Penny screen pass down to the 10-yard line that ruined Seahawks' last chance late yesterday.
— Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) September 26, 2022
Lewis also had a holding penalty that ruined the previous drive
First Dishonorable Mention
Next up is the Seattle Seahawks run defense. If you can say what they did on Sunday even qualifies as a run defense.
The unit gave up 179 yards on 31 carries which averages out to 5.8 yards per carry. That’s 1.3 YPC more than they had coming into the game. The Falcons also scored 2 of their TDs on the ground this week.
Cordarrelle Patterson led the way with an average of 8.3 yards for each of his 17 carries. The Seahawks run defense was pitiful, and it ultimately cost them this game.
Shoutout to Cordarrelle Patterson
— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) September 26, 2022
31 years young and still reinventing himself at RB for the @AtlantaFalcons
He's currently second in the NFL in Rush Yards (302)pic.twitter.com/3WFXw18gWt
Dud of the Week
The biggest dud of this week’s game has to be the Seahawk’s second-half offense or lack thereof.
When the team needed to score points at crunch time, Seattle managed to get a field goal, a punt, and an interception on their final three drives. After the half, the Seahawks could not find any sense of offensive rhythm. Seattle looked inept against a defense they should have been able to score points against.
Kenneth Walker III had a couple of nice runs, and Tyler Lockett had some nice grabs, but in the end, Lewis’s holding penalties and Smith’s lack of passing accuracy led to this week’s defeat.
Awful sequence by Seattle's offense with the game on the line. Holding penalty on Damien Lewis followed by a 10-yard sack that Geno Smith cannot take there and then an interception on fourth-and-18.
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) September 25, 2022