The Seattle Seahawks left the playoffs on Saturday night with little more than a whimper, with a 30-20 drop to a Rams team that suffered significant adversity after losing its starting quarter due to a neck injury and joining Jared Goff used it. repair thumb.
The hurdles appear to be minimal against a teamless Seahawks team that turns the ball over twice and allows Cam Akers to pick up 131 yards and score 28 runs.
However, Seattle could not respond to Los Angeles’ sporadic offensive successes, finishing 2-for-14 in third place and completing just 11 of 27 passes against a stingy Rams defense. The once explosive Seahawks offense that outwitted opponents as he defended his own mess early in the season seemed light years away, lost to the abyss of history, while the current version repeatedly stumbled into an unforgettable loss after the season .
By the fourth quarter, those who had watched the match had landed the reality of the situation. The Seahawks lose to a team playing with an injured fullback, and are dominated by a defense that misses its best player, after Aaron Donald left due to a rib injury. Coach Pete Carroll loses another untouched long-term challenge by Akers and said after the loss to reporters that he has ‘no place’ in his ‘brain for this result’.
“It’s really frustrating to be done,” Carroll said. via Joe Fann of NBC Sports Northwest. ‘The sudden of this is nothing else. You just have to deal with it … Really disappointed in this outcome. ‘
The Seahawks could not protect Russell Wilson, whose performance was just as awful as the hands of his receivers, who dropped several passes. Wilson was fired five times and throws a bad interception on a play in which few, if any of the Seahawks carry out their responsibilities, watch a screen attempt selected by Darious Williams, giving it back for a touch. Wilson finished with a pass rate of 72.1, far from his sky-high start to the 2020 season, and Seattle scored 11 for the first time in the game. Carroll calls Wilson’s day after that ‘really hard’.
“If you’re chased like that, you have to be fired five times against the group, it’s really hard,” Carroll said of Wilson. via Gregg Bell of the Tacoma News Tribune. “The pressure was hard, the coverage was good. He was against it all day.”