Seahawks vs. Bears: Offensive grades for Seattle

The Seahawks are making plenty of coaching and player errors offensively in 2018. Here are the offensive grades for Seattle from week two.

The Seahawks stink offensively. And they have no excuses. As opposed to the defense, Seattle is relatively healthy on offense. No Doug Baldwin, of course, but most everyone else is playing. Is Brian Schottenheimer to blame?

And just like week one, Seattle gave up six sacks against Chicago. The blame for this is not all on the offensive line, though. Much of the fault is on Russell Wilson. And the grades for the week two loss will show this.

Quarterback

You can just see Russell Wilson thinking about what he is doing on the field. Other than maybe his rookie year, Wilson has always been reactive and creative instead of trying to find a way to play within the scheme. This is the new offensive coordinator’s fault. Schottenheimer seems to have taken all of Wilson’s bad qualities and used them in play-calling.

Still, Wilson is a Pro Bowl player who should know at this point in his career to get rid of the ball instead of taking bad sacks. Or waiting to get hit and fumbling. Or throwing a bad interception that gets returned for a touchdown, like Prince Amukamara did to Wilson on Monday against Seattle.

The play-calling did the quarterback no favors. Nor did using Wilson’s ability to create on the run because Schottenheimer doesn’t know how to call plays for that. Wilson will have the worst year of his career in 2018 under Schottenheimer. Just watch it unfold.

Grade: D

Running backs

Seattle decided to do what they did in week one versus the Broncos. And that is not use their running backs to run the ball for most of the game. The Seahawks did not run the ball at all in the third quarter. It wasn’t that Seattle wasn’t having success when they ran. Many times they were. The Seahawks were not taking losses on runs.

And keeping Chris Carson out for the fourth quarter because he was “gassed,” according to Pete Carroll, because Carson had to play special teams? That is stupid. Not that Carson didn’t play really, but because Seattle chose to put Carson in a position where he would be tired. (Though Carson played only two plays on special teams, so what is really happening?)

Rashaad Penny had 10 carries for 30 yards. He played pretty well in the fourth quarter when he was forced to carry the load on his own for the most part.

Grade: Incomplete due to horrible play-calling

Receivers/tight end

Will Dissly is going to be a good tight end in the NFL. He can do much more than block. He may never be a Pro Bowl player simply because he may not catch enough passes to be noticed, but he has the quality of an all-star.

Tyler Lockett is going to have a good year. He will be even better once – and if – Baldwin comes back because some of the defenses focus will be taken away from Lockett. Lockett had another touchdown catch on Monday.

The receivers and tight ends were by far the best part of the Seahawks offense against the Bears.

Grade: B

Offensive line

There is no way of saying the offensive line was good against the Bears. To be fair, Chicago has a very good defense and Wilson didn’t help his line by holding onto the ball too long. Plus, Justin Britt got hurt and missed some time. But six sacks given up is six sacks given up and there is no argument that would make that fact better.

So far in 2018, guard Ethan Pocic has been by far the best player on the line. Pro Football Focus has him graded as the 18th ranked guard through the first two weeks. Everyone else along the line is in the bottom half of the league.

Grade: F

Let’s be honest, 12s. The Seahawks offense is a mess and it may not get much better as the season goes on. The line isn’t good. Quarterback play is mediocre currently. The running backs aren’t getting to run enough. And the play-calling is atrocious.