5 things Seattle Seahawks need to fix in the bye week
By Lee Vowell
The most obvious one: The defense overall
Seattle’s defense is bad. I mean, 12s might like to find an excuse for this – injuries and getting ahead in games and so on – but the fact is a good defense would realize the other team has to throw a lot and bring tons of pressure. But the Seahawks can’t really do that even on obvious passing downs.
But what if another team that knows how to run the ball wants to run the ball? Like, say the Vikings in week five? Well, Minnesota simply runs the ball with ease and gains 201 yards doing so. And they made it look so easy is one of the big issues.
Minnesota had the perfect game plan against Seattle and it nearly worked. Why didn’t it? Well, turnovers helped the defense and then Russell Wilson and D.K. Metcalf worked some magic late in the game.
What about those turnovers? Seattle gets quite a few of them. Creates them, even. Seattle is second in the league in takeaways with 10. 7 of them are interceptions. That’s misleading. Teams pass so easily against the Seahawks that Seattle is bound to pick off an errant pass or 7.
But that hasn’t stopped Seattle from ranking dead last in total yards allowed through five weeks with an average of 471.2. The next closest is the Falcons at 446.0. That’s bad.