3 takeaways from displeasing Seattle Seahawks Week 7 loss

Lack of awareness

The theme of Week 7 was lack of awareness. Seattle had 4 offensive possessions alone in the 1st quarter. Although they only scored on one of them, it was a testament to their defense. But, playing with a lead only meant more running on offense. One of the problems was the predictable playcalling, especially later in the second half. Perhaps, what cost the Seattle Seahawks this game was the bonehead plays that just simply cannot happen.

In both halves, Pete Carroll had to burn multiple timeouts early as Geno Smith just wasn’t aware of the play clock. There were numerous times where he was calling an audible with 5 seconds on the play clock, making it nearly impossible to get the snap off. Geno also showed his inexperience as he took some costly sacks. In the 4th, tied at 10-10, Seattle was actually piecing together what appeared to be a go-ahead drive.

But, taking a sack on third down, turned a short field goal into a 53-yard field goal for Jason Meyers. On his second missed field goal of the game, the Saints were now in great field possession with just under five minutes.

The Seahawks defense was actually able to make enough plays to get off the field. But, on a third-down sack, Marquise Blair made contact with Winston’s head and gave the Saints a new set of downs. Later on the same drive, on a third and ten, the Seahawks let Alvin Kamara rush for a first down. Then, on fourth and five with a rookie kicker having to drill a 40+ yard pressurized go-ahead field goal, Al Woods jumps offsides and gives the Saints a first down.

Down 13-10  with under 2 minutes left, many 12s were thinking to themselves, here we go again. Only this time, Geno failed to spark any magic as he took back-to-back sacks that set up a near improbable fourth and twenty-eight.