For Pete’s sake: 3 Seahawks that were awful in Week 2 loss

Seahawks linebacker Darrell Taylor

There is no real reason that Darrell Taylor can’t play the run because in college at Tennessee he basically played the same position he does now with the Seahawks. And Tennessee plays in the SEC which is for all intents and purposes a minor league system for the NFL. If you can be good in the SEC, you should be able to be decent in the NFL. But Taylor not only is bad against the run, but he has also issues tackling as well.

As the game grew on in Week 2, Taylor did make a couple of decent plays against the 49ers but the game was long over by that time. Taylor struggled in Week 1 versus the Broncos run. Heck, Denver seemed to intentionally run to their right side as that is where Taylor plays. In Week 2, the 49ers ran to the right side a lot and picked up chunk yards doing so.

On one play in the first quarter with the 49ers up just 3-0 with a 2nd and 8 on their own 26-yard line, Taylor had a chance to stop Samuel for a 5-yard loss which might have helped end the drive. Instead, Samuel made Taylor look silly and ran for 51 yards.

Taylor started his career last year with 4 sacks in his first five games and then didn’t do a lot after that. If Taylor can do one thing well, one should assume that would be getting to the opposing quarterback. But Taylor hasn’t done that in 2022 yet either. But the way Taylor has played the run, he deserves to take a seat on the bench and be a rotational pass rusher only.