Seahawks lose to Saints in sickeningly embarrassing fashion

The Seahawks lost to the Saints in week three in an unusual way. Seattle played stupidly grouped with missed tackles, terrible coaching and bad special teams.

The Seahawks lost badly to the Saints at CenturyLink on Sunday. At least it felt a lot worse than the 33-27 final. It was the most frustrating game for Seattle I can remember in some time. Sure, they got blown out by the Rams at home in 2017 but Seattle was a banged up group then. On Sunday, they had no real excuses.

Well, I guess the excuse would be that Seattle lost by missing tackles, stupid clock management and play-calling, bad special teams and penalties and turnovers. Seattle didn’t look like a team that could make the playoffs. They looked like a team that shouldn’t finish with a .500 record. Let me count the ways the Seahawks lost on Sunday.

Pete Carroll fails to call a timeout before halftime when he had two left. Russell Wilson completed a deep pass to D.K. Metcalf but time ran out before Seattle could run another play. Stupid.

Michael Dickson kicked a 35 yard punt to Saints returner Deonte Harris that had little hang time and allowed Harris to gather momentum which ended up being returned for a touchdown.

Chris Carson continued his fumbling ways in Seahawks territory. He had the ball punched out and returned 33 yards for a touchdown by the Saints Von Bell. That is Carson’s third official fumble of 2019, and he has lost all of them. But 12s all know he has really fumbled four times.

On an important 4th and short in the first half, Brian Schottenheimer called the obvious run up the middle with Carson which was stuffed. Wilson had been rolling at the time and it would have better to have him make a play instead of the obvious run.

Seattle had an incredible amount of missed tackles, especially when Alvin Kamara had the ball. On Kamara‘s touchdown catch in the second quarter of 29 yards, he should have been stopped outside the 10 yard line. He made Bradley McDougald and Lano Hill look silly on the play. This is not the way the Seahawks used to be. Missed tackles were rare.

With the score 20-7, the Saints went for a field goal on 4th and 4 and it was short. However, defensive tackle Al Woods lined up over the center which is a penalty. New Orleans went on to score a touchdown on the drive to make it 27-7. Woods should have been directed where to line up better.

On a 4th and three inches in the fourth when Seattle had to have points, instead of a short, safer pass or a run, Wilson threw a fade pass to Malik Turner. Why not Tyler Lockett or D.K. Metcalf? Who knows? That is the kind of game it was. Dumb.

On the Saints final touchdown drive, K.J. Wright basically tackled Kamara and was called for pass interference. Kamara scored on the next play.

Finally, after Wilson ran the ball in for a touchdown with 2:48 left, the Seahawks decided to go for an extra point instead of 2 points. Making 2 would have put them within 11 points, a field goal and a touchdown tie it. A 12 point game means a team needs two touchdowns. Stupid.

Oh, and even though Seattle saw the return of Ziggy Ansah and still had Jadeveon Clowney, Seattle didn’t get a sack. Maybe next year.

This is one to forget, 12s. Seattle needs to play better and had no excuses for playing the way they did. The players should be embarrassed. So should the coaches. Possibly even Blitz the mascot. This was a complete team loss and no one should be proud of the way they played.