Also unsatisfying is Seattle’s offense, which has 15 points with one touchdown in eight quarters.
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Michael emerged as the focal point – and just about the only point – of the Seahawks’ running game.
It was the first time since a 6-3 loss to the Cleveland Browns in 2011 that Seattle could manage only three points in a game.
Hobbling quarterback Russell Wilson passed for 254 yards, but the Seahawks reached the red zone once all day. Wilson doesn’t have a Julio Jones or Dez Bryant, someone who can line up on the outside and go and make a catch when you need it most.
“I never could have thought that we would go the first couple weeks and not score but one touchdown”, coach Pete Carroll said. “I was kind of just roaming the field”.
The first and only rule of hate-watching our town’s former team is that we must not dwell on the good things.
That remains to be seen.
As the mercury topped 90 degrees with little shade, eleven people were taken to hospitals by city fire paramedics by the end of the game, according to fire department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart. The offensive line? The play-calling? But he also says teams may have figured out in the offseason how to compensate for the adjustments Seattle made past year for its poor offensive line play. Of the nine linemen on the roster, only two have more than three years of experience.
Ogletree’s game-ending strip and recovery – with less than a minute to go and the Seahawks only 35 yards away from a potential game-winning touchdown – culminated the dominant defensive effort that made an emotional, enthralling 9-3 victory possible. We have to make some decisions on some stuff to get in a mode that fits us. Last year, that number was 4.54 (seventh). “It may not have been the prettiest game, but it was a lot of fun”. So far this year, Seattle has allowed five.
This time, it behooves Carroll and the Seahawks to find a way to direct that competitive spirit within the acceptable guidelines of the league. So either way, I think the defense played incredible today.
Miller added a sack on the last play for his third of the game as the Broncos (2-0) sent the banged-up Colts limping to their third consecutive 0-2 start.
What do you think about the Los Angeles Rams’ offense? We’re trying to do this really well and trying to be great at it, and really disappointed it came to this.
When you leave the Post-Dispatch picnic early on a handsome Sunday afternoon so you can go inside and root against the Rams, do you pause for a moment and wonder what is wrong with you?
It was the only third down Seattle converted in all of the second half, the Seahawks failing on their next four attempts.
WRs Tyler Lockett (knee) and Doug Baldwin (knee, back) also were hurt and awaited exams Monday, as did Rawls.
For the second straight week, the Seahawks couldn’t get any traction in the ground game.
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Ogletree sealed it with 45 seconds to play, falling on a fumble by Christine Michael. Seattle finished the half with 146 total yards to 137 for Los Angeles. Zimmer initially announced the nature of the injury while recording his weekly appearance on a local radio show and told KFXN-FM that he has not yet ruled out Peterson for the game on Sunday against Carolina. They are off in too many areas now, but once (or if) Wilson’s ankle heals, Rawls gets back into game form and offensive line coach Tom Cable puts his voodoo on the guys up front, we could be having a very different discussion. “So it wouldn’t have been automatic to say that in the 1960s and the 1970s the LA Rams would have been the biggest thing in the town, but I have to say they kind of were”.
