Seattle Seahawks: 4 takeaways from 27-26 win over Minnesota
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Chris Carson, Seattle Seahawks.
Stepping up
In professional sports, there will be games the opponents do a great job of taking a team’s stars out of the mix. On those occasions, it’s up to the supporting cast to step up. They did Sunday night.
Ryan Neal
Baby KamKam, Ryan Neal continued to make plays. Number 35 was often in the picture and usually near the ball. For the game, he had eight tackles, including two for loss and a pass defended.
In my opinion, with Neal, the Seattle Seahawks have three starting-caliber safeties. This should allow Ken Norton Jr to create some “exotic” defensive packages. Maybe he can use Jamal Adams is a “linebacker” with Neal and Quandre Diggs. Or when facing a dynamic quarterback like Kyler Murray they can stay in a nickel or dime packages more than normal. In those situations, Seattle can have more speed out there but not lose anything on the tackling side.
Neal’s play just allows the defense to be more flexible and adaptive without a drop-off. He’s a rising star.
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Chris Carson
If Russell Wilson is the king of efficiency, Sunday night, Chris Carson was the prince. For a running back that’s been labeled as having bad hands, it sure didn’t look that way in this game. He caught everything thrown in his direction. There was no drop off in his running game either, ripping off big chunks of yardage. None better than his 29-yard touchdown after half time. That was a fantastically beautiful run.
Every week. Every game. I love Chris Carson. That’s all. That’s the tweet.
— Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR) October 12, 2020
K.J. Wright
K.J. Wright didn’t stuff the stat sheet with tackles, but everyone knew he was in the game. First, he recovered a fumble. Then he made an incredible one-handed interception on Minnesota’s very next possession. Of course, that made up for the dropped interceptions he had last week.
KJ WRIGHT ONE HANDED IT 😱 @KJ_WRIGHT34 @Seahawks pic.twitter.com/xx1Q3G8HNz
— The Checkdown (@thecheckdown) October 12, 2020
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