A narrow Seattle Seahawks defeat, but one which brought hope ahead of Seattle’s matchup with the Oakland Raiders in London, England this Sunday. Losing 33-31 to the conference’s best team was a performance that demonstrated Pete Carroll can still get buy-in from young talent.
The play-calling and execution shame of Arizona, where the Seahawks went 0-fer on 3rd down, was also put in the rear-view mirror. The offense exploded, with Brian Schottenheimer calling far more play-action. Having only dialled up play-fakes six times in Phoenix, Schotty thankfully gave Russell Wilson a much higher dosage.