This Week in Seattle Seahawks Historical past: Refs hand Cowboys win in Seattle

This might be a weekly article collection all through the season wanting again on what occurred for the Seattle Seahawks 40, 30, 20, and 10 years in the past this week.

I’m not making an attempt to be a downer however outdoors of the 2014 win, this week’s article is stuffed with each on-field and off-field mishaps. The off-field incident in 1994 is especially tragic.

40 Years In the past

Sunday, December 9, 1984

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The Seahawks had been 12-2 at this level and had been dealing with a 7-7 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs crew, so this could’ve been a mismatch. Effectively, it was however not in the way in which Seahawks followers had been hoping…

Seattle stored it shut within the 1st Quarter after they tied the sport at 7 on a 49-yard TD go from Dave Krieg to Daryl Turner. After that, they gave up 27 unanswered factors and obtained creamed. Dave Krieg’s 5 INTs definitely didn’t assist and 1 of them was returned for a TD by KC’s Scott Radecic.

Dave Krieg was 17/38 for 263 yards, 1 TD, 5 INT. David Hughes had 8 carries for 32 yards. Steve Largent was the main receiver with 4 catches for 98 yards.

Seattle’s protection didn’t report any turnovers or sacks. They did surrender 8 catches for 166 yards and 1 TD to Henry Marshall, nevertheless.

30 Years In the past

Sunday, December 4, 1994

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We’ll get to the precise sport later however the actual story right here is an unlucky one. A couple of days earlier than the sport, Lamar Smith, Chris Warren and Mike Frier had been concerned in a automobile crash. Smith was driving and crashed right into a utility pole. Each he and Warren suffered minor accidents whereas Frier had a big speaker fall on him, leading to a spinal damage that paralyzed him from the waist down. It was a completely tragic accident for Frier, who had simply joined the Seahawks a couple of weeks prior.

There’s actually no good method to transition again to soccer aside from to say that they nonetheless needed to play the sport.

The two-game profitable streak for the 1994 Seahawks got here to an finish in opposition to the Indianapolis Colts, quarterbacked by Don Majkowski. It was a sloppy sport total with 9 whole turnovers – 4 from the Colts and 5 from the Seahawks.

Rick Mirer was 5/13 for 28 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. Dan McGwire wasn’t a lot better at 15/24 for 145 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. Chris Warren, nursing 2 fractured ribs from the crash, had 23 carries for 81 yards. Brian Blades and Robb Thomas tied for the receiving lead with 55 yards every. Neither scored a TD although as these had been reeled in by Steve Smith and Paul Inexperienced.

Patrick Hunter and Eugene Robinson each had 1 INT and Robinson additionally recovered 1 fumble. In a neat coincidence, 4 of the 5 sacks recorded by the Colts got here from somebody named Tony. Tony Siragusa had 2.0 sacks whereas each Tony Bennett and Tony McCoy notched 1.0 sack a chunk. Ray Buchanan had their closing sack together with an INT returned for a TD, 1 of his NFL-leading 3 within the 1994 season.

20 Years In the past

Monday, December 6, 2004

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A Monday Evening Soccer matchup between Invoice Parcells’ Dallas Cowboys and Mike Holmgren’s Seattle Seahawks?? What might go incorrect?

Loads.

Let’s reduce to the chase. There was a ton of scoring on this sport with the Seahawks taking a ten level lead with 2:46 left within the sport. Dallas “scored” on a Keyshawn Johnson TD go with 1:45 left to drag inside 3. I put that in quotes on goal as a result of he solely obtained one foot down ultimately zone earlier than his hand touched out of bounds. Because it was throughout the 2-minute warning, the coach isn’t allowed to problem and it falls on the replay sales space. They inexplicably didn’t cease the sport to assessment the play.

After all Dallas would get well the onside kick after that and rating once more with 37 seconds left to steal the win away from the Seahawks. I keep in mind this sport vividly as a result of I, together with each different Seahawks fan I’m certain, was pissed off on the refs. Little did we all know only a mere 14 months later we’d have one more reason to be mad at them…

Matt Hasselbeck went off to the tune of 28/40 for 414 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT. Shaun Alexander had 21 carries for 83 yards and a pair of TD. Seahawks Legend Jerry Rice had 8 catches for 145 yards and 1 TD.

Terreal Bierria and Ken Hamlin each had 1 INT. Grant Wistrom, Rashad Moore, and Chike Okeafor every had 1.0 sack.

I’m not saying this was the explanation why he ultimately ended up in Seattle however future Seahawks Legend had 30 carries for 198 yards and three TD – each the yardage and TDs had been profession highs.

10 Years In the past

Sunday, December 7, 2014

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This matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles occurred within the brief window when Chip Kelly was nonetheless an efficient head coach within the NFL. Possibly this was the start of the top because the Seahawks protection held the Eagles offense to simply 139 whole yards whereas Seattle’s offense exploded for four hundred and forty yards. Kelly’s uptempo offenses had been typically poor in time of possession however this may increasingly have been his worst with Seattle proudly owning a virtually 41:56-18:04 benefit!

Russell Wilson was 22/37 for 263 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT. He additionally had 10 carries for 48 yards and 1 TD. Marshawn Lynch had 23 carries for 86 yards. Doug Baldwin had 5 carries for 97 yards and 1 TD.

Tharold Simon recorded his lone profession interception on this sport. Jordan Hill, Michael Bennett, and Marcus Burley all had 1.0 sack.