Pete Carroll has preached the importance of a running game from day one as the Seattle Seahawks head coach. Carroll has repeatedly emphasized this and has not changed his philosophy even as the players on the team changed.
Since Marshawn Lynch left, the Seahawks have been less than adequate as a running football team. In Lynch’s last year with Seattle, they rushed for almost 2,300 yards, in the years since the Seahawks have not managed to break the 1,700-yard rushing barrier. This has had a resounding impact on the team as a whole that supposedly was a run-first team.