High level of concern for 1-2 Seahawks | You Pod to Win the Game
Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson and Frank Schwab discuss the surprising 1-2 Seattle Seahawks, and their lack of defensive identity. Big money has been spent on defense, but it is not paying off on the field. Hear the full conversation on the You Pod to Win the Game podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
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FRANK SCHWAB: That leads me to another team that, another 1 in 2 team that you're kind of like, OK I trust the track record, but boy these are two concerning losses in a row and that's the Seattle Seahawks. I mean, you know, 30 to 17 today. The Minnesota Vikings get them when they're up 17-7 early. You're just thinking, OK all right, the Vikings aren't very good. This, they're going to get run out. They're going to be 0 and 3. You start thinking about Mike Zimmer. You start, and then nothing went right for them after that.
I mean Seattle could get nothing done I think at one point, I don't know if they ended this way, at one point, they had seven yards in the third quarter. Minnesota just completely controlled that game, without even Dalvin Cook, he was out. Alexander Mattison played a really, really good game. But they didn't have one of their key guys, they're down 17-7 they still storm back, and blow past Seattle. What's your concern level with Seattle right now?
Because I don't know, I mean on one hand, I want to say well you know they're 1 and 0. They come home, they're up 24-9 against what's probably going to be a decent Titans team. They had a bad fourth quarter, lost in overtime, that happens sometimes. This one, you know you go on the road, OK. Well you know, you give up the last 23 points of the game, that ain't very good. Where are we at with Seattle? Do we think there's problems here or is this just kind of like, all right, a little bit of an early season doldrums.
CHARLES ROBINSON: I don't, I think in terms of their defense. Like OK, you paid a lot of money to Jamal Adams, right? There's money sunk into the linebacker position, there's money sunk into the defensive line. Where is the dynamic? Like where are the dynamic plays? Who they turning over, like I didn't like that they got run on today. Like in a way where it was like physical. Like they got physically run on today. And then they never got to Kirk Cousins. I'm like how the hell do you not sack Kirk Cousins one time? Like seriously, what the hell is going on?
But then I'm like, OK well let's see. Frank Clark is in Kansas City, you know? Jadeveon Clowney is in Cleveland. Oh and even, Malik McDowell is in Cleveland, playing really well. Like just some of their pieces--
FRANK SCHWAB: Carlos Dunlap has become a non-factor.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Carlos Dunlap has just vanished. Like it's yeah, I mean, so there's just, I think some of the investment defensively, do they scare you anymore? Like--
FRANK SCHWAB: Yeah, that defense is bad. Yeah, it's bad I think it's bad. Honestly, look what Derrick Henry did to them last week.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah historically in my mind, I keep thinking like oh yeah you know Seattle, it's who they are. They're laying the wood, but I'm like Cam Chancellor hasn't been there forever. I'm like in my mind, the memories that I burned into my brain, I'm like I need to get over this. That's not who they are anymore. But like you said, Derrick Henry beat the hell out of them last week. And then again this week, they get run on physically. It's just, yeah I don't know what happened.
When they were up 17-7, I'm like OK they got this. You know, I don't think a lot of the Minnesota Vikings. And then it just completely fell apart from that point on. It is, I am very, particularly in the NFC West, I'm very concerned about Seattle.