The Seattle Seahawks improved to 2-1, outscoring the Carolina Panthers 37-27.
championship team, the juice was abundant. It threw the energy from last week, after that abysmal opening day performance, into stark relief.
The Seattle defense answered with a quick stop punctuated by an Artie Burns sack on a third down blitz that was preceded by another terrific breakup by Witherspoon. After the punt, Smith immediately hit Tyler Lockett up the right sideline for 16 yards and a quick first down then danced out of a sack to find Fant for nine. Zach Charbonnet kept things moving with a seven-yard charge and the Seahawks were rolling as the first quarter came to a close.
Things got worse right after that thanks to a terrible interception from Geno, who blindly threw the ball to a pivoting linebacker. The Seahawks, who had been slowly scaling this peak, were suddenly tumbling ass over teakettle down the side of the mountain. They were saved before they hit the bottom by Burns expertly breaking up a 3rd down fade to Thielen. The Panthers settled for a field goal and a 13-9 lead with only two and a half minutes left in the first half.
Not to say that they folded, though. Carolina punched back, capitalizing on a really bad pass interference call against Witherspoon that set up a long completion to Thielen into scoring range. Dalton would continue his 3rd down prowess a couple snaps later when Thielen lost Seattle’s LBs on a crossing route to get inside the 1. Sanders punched it in from there to make it 22-20, one play into the fourth quarter.
That put Seattle on Carolina’s 27 yard line with less than five minutes to play— an opportunity to put their opponents in the got dang dirt. Handing the shovel to their backfield, the Seahawks did just that. Walker started things with a 10 yard run and two plays later, Charbonnet damn near got arrested for manslaughter. On the play, Charbonnet took the handoff, bounced left, and sprinted up the sideline. He was met inside the five by a defender who immediately wished he hadn’t.
He did it all today, breaking big runs, making two huge catches, and scoring twice in the green zone. Maybe my favorite play came early in the 4th quarter, when he took a handoff and was met with a wall of tonnage at the line of scrimmage. You could see the brief moment where he considered hopping backwards and trying to win a race to the edge, but then he put his head down and followed his line’s haunches for the three yards that were given to him.
~Jaxson Smith-Njigba was quiet again today, recording one catch for 10 yards. He’s a bit of a statistical anomaly so far, ranking last among qualified NFL receivers with a 1.3 average depth of target. But on the other hand, he leadsNFL wideouts in average yards of separation on his routes. It’s because of the latter stat that I’m not worried about JSN despite an underwhelming string of box scores to begin his career.
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