RENTON — It was the kind of statement that in seasons past might have sounded like an unintentional joke.
To a man, after Sunday’s surprisingly suspenseful 21-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, the members of the Seahawks offensive line said that the game did not meet their standards.
In the last few years of the Tom Cable era, the response of most Seahawks fans and NFL observers to such a claim might have been that it’s really not that hard to reach the bottom.
But after the offensive line’s revival of 2018 — when the Seahawks led the NFL in rushing yards per game, scored the second-most points in franchise history and averaged 30 points a game over the second half of the season — such a statement takes on new meaning.