Not Your Normal Monday Night Seahawks!

October 5, 2015 was not the typical outstanding football game the Seattle Seahawks play on Monday night’s or on prime time.

Usually the Seahawks are really up for these games and play real well. The defense generally played a good game except at the last drive where they came up lucky with Kam Chancellor hitting the ball out of Charlie Johnson’s hand, and the ball being hit through the end zone. According the lead of officials the Seahawks should have been penalized, and the Lions should have had the ball inside the one yard line; however, we will take the luck on our side this time.

Though he had a few good scramble plays including the one in which led the Seahawks only touchdown Russell Wilson and the offensive line had a poor game at the very best. You think with the horrible offense that Wilson was playing baseball with the Seattle Mariners against the Houston Astros that is how bad the Seahawks offense is playing right now.

We can only hope that Marshawn Lynch can be back next week against the Cincinnati Bengals, and that Freddie Jackson will be OK as well. Whether Lynch is back or not I really think that the Seahawks plan going into next week’s game is for Wilson to roll out of the pocket, and throw short passes along with running the ball if needed to open up the running game, and the long passes. Right now Wilson is either getting too much pressure in the pocket or he is taking too much time to throw the ball. In this game I think we do have to give the Lions defensive backs credit for not allowing the receivers to get open especially deep; however, the offense has to try something different since what they are doing now is not working.

I wonder how long the Seahawks will go with the way the offensive line is playing right now or make other new changes. It is possible Carroll and Cable figure they are on the learning curve and make take several weeks to get them playing good. I have an idea maybe the offensive line needs to hold on every play and see if they get caught or not. LOL. One thing for sure the line needs a lot of practice this week working on pass protection. When they get that down than work on run blocking. The Lions at times had an extra lineman in the game in place of the tight end on running plays. It did not really work for them; however, I wonder if the Seahawks need to do that on passing downs especially. I would put Jimmy Graham on the outside since he is not doing well at blocking and bring in additional lineman or tight end. I would use the fullback in some passing downs as well especially on third downs if Freddie Jackson is not available. I can only hope that the Seahawks think the same way I am. I guess we will see next week. Go Seahawks!