Hawks must get ground game going if they want to make a run

November 24, 2023 cc Leave a comment

The Seahawks were expected to have a top-10 offense in 2023, but here we are in Week 12 and they rank 21^st overall, 19^th in scoring.

They have not had an offense rank this poorly since 2011, the year before Russell Wilson arrived.

After a predictable 31-13 blowout by the 49ers on Thanksgiving night, the Hawks have lost three of four games to drop to 6-5. And they are staring at an upcoming gantlet of Dallas, San Francisco again and Philadelphia that seems very likely to drop them to 6-8.

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State of the team

Blowout didn’t change anything: Hawks still a borderline one-and-out playoff team

November 8, 2023 cc Leave a comment

The Seahawks never seemed like a Super Bowl contender throughout the first half of the season – they never even put together a complete game in a 5-2 start — and their 37-3 blowout loss to Baltimore in Week 9 proved it. There’s no Super Bowl in this team, even if John Schneider’s big deadline trade seemed to say the Hawks thought they had a chance.

The Baltimore debacle was a total team failure, from coaching to QB play to OL play to a million missed tackles on defense. As Jordyn Brooks said, they just did not come ready to play.

The Hawks are neither as good as their 5-2 record made some think nor as bad as this nightmare 34-point defeat would seem to indicate. They are still what we thought they were: a borderline one-and-done playoff team.

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