The primary half of the 2024 NFL season has been a wild one for the Seattle Seahawks. For each excessive, there’s been a corresponding low, which has resulted in a wonderfully equilibrious 4-4 file after eight weeks. Only a week faraway from a dominant street win over the Atlanta Falcons, the Seahawks had been embarrassed at dwelling by the Buffalo Payments. It has appeared not too long ago that standard soccer analysts throughout the nation have began coming to an settlement that Seattle doesn’t have an important soccer workforce, but it surely doesn’t have a horrible one both, falling someplace simply above the median. Many of those rankings appear to return from a spot of excellent religion, however how is that religion holding up after an abysmal week eight efficiency?
For those who ask ESPN, the loss actually simply solidifies their perception that the Seahawks are simply common.
14. Seattle Seahawks (4-4)
Week 8 consequence: Misplaced to the Payments 31-10
Week 8 rating: 12
Greatest offseason addition: Defensive sort out Byron Murphy II
The rookie first-round decide will get the nod within the absence of any apparent Seahawks candidate. Murphy missed three video games with a hamstring harm and has but to ship a breakout efficiency, however he has proven flashes of the game-wrecking expertise that made him the sixteenth choice. In 5 video games, Murphy has a half sack, two tackles for loss and a stress that led to a Kirk Cousins interception in a Week 7 win over Atlanta. — Brady Henderson
The Athletic offers Seattle just a bit extra credit score than ESPN, however the sentiment is similar.
12. Seattle Seahawks (4-4)
Final week: 10
Sunday: Misplaced to Buffalo Payments 31-10
One thing Scary: The run protection
The Seahawks are twenty third in yards allowed earlier than contact per rush (1.78) and twenty eighth in yards per carry allowed (4.9). Though first-year head coach Mike Macdonald received the job primarily based on the play of his Baltimore protection, run protection wasn’t the Ravens’ power both. Baltimore was twenty fifth within the league final season, giving up 4.5 yards per carry. Buffalo’s James Prepare dinner rushed for 111 yards Sunday, and the Payments had 164 total. Seattle gained solely 32 yards on the bottom.
NFL.com drops Seattle from No. 14 down into the underside half at No. 17.
Momentum from the Seahawks’ rousing win over the Falcons in Week 7 was undone by a tricky efficiency in Sunday’s blowout loss to the Payments. There’s no disgrace in shedding to Buffalo, even in Seattle, however the way in which it went down — even with DK Metcalf sidelined by harm — was disheartening. The Seahawks badly botched two red-zone possessions on offense and dedicated an inexcusable, drive-extending penalty to stake the Payments a 14-3 halftime lead. Had they performed it proper, the ‘Hawks might have gone to the locker room with a lead. As a substitute, they received their doorways blown off, unable to get the run recreation going, committing a variety of penalties and permitting Buffalo to place it in cruise management within the third quarter. Why is that this Seattle workforce so cold and warm? Three wins adopted by three losses and two divergent performances over the previous two weeks. With three straight division video games (and 4 within the subsequent 5), the Seahawks should iron this out rapidly.
Sports activities Illustrated’s Conor Orr had his religion shaken, demoting the Seahawks a whopping 9 spots.
19. Seattle Seahawks (4–4)
Final week’s rating: No. 10
Final week’s consequence: misplaced to Buffalo, 31–10
This week: vs. Buffalo
The Seahawks remind me of the reverse-49ers in that, if the sport is drifting away from a chance for his or her protection to be a showpiece, their plan is fatally flawed. Just like the 49ers after they have to easily throw prayer darts, Seattle can not run the finer factors of its designer protection while getting gashed minus a run recreation. The inconsistencies in that section need to be maddening for Mike Macdonald.
Frank Schwab of Yahoo! Sports activities appears flummoxed by the Hawks, however regardless of his vital take, nonetheless places them proper within the center, at No. 17, down 4 spots from final week.
All the things went unsuitable for the Seahawks in a loss to the Payments. They didn’t look good. It’s an not possible workforce to determine. It definitely doesn’t seem like one that may win the NFC West.
It’s clear that The thirty third Staff actually desires to imagine, however justifiably can not at the moment.
18. Seattle Seahawks (4-4)
Earlier Rating: 15
It’s so arduous to belief the Seattle Seahawks week to week after they had been dominated by the Payments at dwelling. Seattle seemed improbable in opposition to the Falcons final week, blowing out Atlanta on the street.
This week, they weren’t aggressive in any respect in opposition to Buffalo. The Seahawks is perhaps probably the most up-and-down workforce within the league, and it will likely be arduous to belief them in any respect transferring ahead.
I rag on USA Right this moment’s Nate Davis quite a bit on this column, however he’s received the upper-hand this week.
22. Seattle Seahawks (18): A lot for that supposed home-field benefit at Lumen Subject, the place the Seahawks have misplaced three in a row and put up larger fights on their very own sideline than between the traces.
Rounding out the checklist this week, Pete Prisco from CBS Sports activities has Seattle down 5 spots from final week to No. 17.
Buffalo mauled them in all phases Sunday. The protection has had points all season, however the offense sputtered as nicely. They’ve misplaced 4 of 5. Not good.
The phrase ‘mediocrity’ will get tossed round so much, often with a unfavorable connotation, but it surely’s neither good nor unhealthy, and it could simply be probably the most becoming description of this workforce proper now. There may be loads of expertise and a ton of potential, however the elementary lack of execution is retaining this workforce from discovering its identification. Not too completely different from 14 years in the past.
