His body falling to the ground, Chris Carson made a decision which changed the nature of the Seattle Seahawks’ season. It was a small likely impulsive decision. A failure of discipline, I would guess, a reversion from learned behavior to intuitive behavior. What he did didn’t even last a second, but the effect of the decision is striking.
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Seattle’s shift in fortunes started with a punt. Thomas Morstead has been what Seahawks fans hope Michael Dickson could be. Morstead struggled in his rookie season (for the sake of simplicity I am going to conflate punter and overall punting team performance).