Seahawks offensive grades for their mid-term report card
We’re eight games into the 2019 season and have a good picture of the Seahawks performance. How well has the offense played so far?
The Seahawks offense made big strides last year. Seattle finished 2018 ranked 18th in yards gained, which was a slight drop from 15th in 2017. The great news is how efficient the Hawks offense was last year. Seattle jumped from 366 points in 2017, 11th in the NFL, to 428 points last season. That gain earned them the 6th best ranking in the league. Just how does the 2019 offense stack up at the halfway point?
In a word, it’s a mixed bag. That’s more than one word, but you know what I mean. The Hawks are currently ninth in the league in yards gained, their best showing since 2015 when they were fourth in the NFL. The Hawks are currently on pace to total 6,126 yards, which would be their best output ever. That’s a major score in favor of Seattle’s performance this season.
They also were fourth in points scored in 2005. Therein lies the problem with the 2019 offense. The Hawks haven’t been nearly as efficient this year as they were in 2018. In fact, Pete Carroll’s team has almost always featured a highly efficient offense. Since he arrived in 2010, Seattle has ranked higher in points scored than yards gained in six of the past nine seasons. In 2014 they ranked 10th in points and ninth in yards. The next season Seattle ranked fourth in both categories.
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So far this season, the Seahawks rank 11th in points scored. This isn’t exactly cause for alarm like 2016 when they ranked 12th in yards gained but just 18th in points scored, but it’s a far cry from last year when Russell Wilson and his crew maximized every yard gained. This season, the team hasn’t quite lived up to my prediction of being the best offense in Hawks history. The good news is, they’re still in striking distance of the 452 points they scored in 2005.
So far this season, the offense has put up 208 points. They looked like they were on pace to really break out against the Falcons, but as we know the team appeared to go into cruise control. At midseason, the offense has averaged 26 points per game. To set a new team record, they’ll have to boost that production to 30.6 points per game. That’s not a big leap, especially considering that rookie DK Metcalf is improving as the season goes on.