Seahawks third string loses, while first team looks solid

Seahawks third string is not ready for primetime

Alright, we shook that image off, right? The Seahawks defense had a bad first half by most measures. The Vikings rolled up 209 yards, and had three drives of at least 12 plays. Then again, they had to settle for field goal tries twice. So if they’d had someone like, say, Seabass, Minnesota would have scored 13 points. Even then it’s not too terrible, considering the drives they had. As Seattle has done so often in the past, they got tougher as the opponents got closer.

The third quarter wasn’t so kind to the Norsemen. The Vikings could only manage negative four yards on four drives, all ending on punts. That tends to happen when you have basically the second team offense going against a lot of first team defenders. Seattle didn’t fair much better, as they only managed one scoring drive. That drive was sweet, though, as it ended with a 55 yard boomer of a kick by Janikowski.

The fourth quarter was a showcase for the Vikings third string quarterback Kyle Sloter. He was 11 of 15 for 85 yards and two touchdowns. I wouldn’t get too wound up about it, as he was going against a lot of third string players. But so was the presumptive Seahawks third string quarterback, Alex McGough. He made some nice throws, but also completely botched a few passes. He twice took sacks that a quarterback with better awareness would have avoided by throwing the ball away. I don’t mean Russell Wilson, I mean an average QB. McGough was just 5 of 14 on the night for 140 yards. 55 of those came on a hail mary that fell two yards short of the end zone as time expired.