Backup Connor Cook gets the nod at quarterback for the Raiders, who suffered a huge blow when top QB Derek Carr broke his hand in the next-to-last game.
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When approached in the Seattle locker room Wednesday, Sherman proclaimed that he was shutting it down and speaking with only one national reporter, ESPN’s Ed Werder, and taking his message straight to the public through his social media accounts, a la President-elect Donald Drumpf.
The CliffsNotes version is that Seattle has steadily lost a number of veterans since 2013 (such as left tackle Russell Okung and center Max Unger) and now has a line that has a combined salary-cap number of less than $7 million – by far the lowest in the NFL.
The most common two-pick parlay combination on Detroit games this season was “Lions & under”, which came in six times this season. Jeremy Reisman, of Lions blog Pride of Detroit and Mark Lathos of Seahawks blog Field Gulls, strap on the pads and debate who will cover the spread in Saturday night’s NFC Wild Card game.
The Lions defense, while it certainly won’t drop anyone’s jaws, has proven that it can do just enough to keep the team in the game. In their four games without Thomas, Seattle not only surrendered its first-place spot in fewest points allowed, but also gave up its first two 30-point games, yielding 38 to Green Bay and 34 to Arizona. Christine Michael, who isn’t even with the team anymore, is their leading rusher on the season with 469 yards. He threw five over their first 12. “Therein lies the hope for all Seahawks fans in this upcoming playoff”. Boldin has been more steadily targeted than Marvin Jones in recent weeks, and is always a candidate for entering the endzone on this team. The short passing-game will always take up the majority of the air attack but it won’t exclusively get the job done in this one.
Now combine all this with the fact that the Seattle offensive line remains a major issue.
Rawls remains a question mark after last week’s disappointing outing at San Francisco.
There’s no time like the postseason to make your mark. Wilson scrambles to run more than Rodgers, but he still has two risky receivers the Lions must keep close tabs on in Doug Baldwin and Jimmy Graham. We have seen other teams in Super Bowl annals struggle to run the football during the regular season and then rev it up in the playoffs.
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Most of the precipitation is supposed to stay south of Seattle.
