Seahawks RB Rawls (ankle) out vs. Ravens

In addition to Schaub, wide receiver Marlon Brown (back), cornerback Tray Walker, tight ends Crockett Gilmore (back) and Richard Gordon, defensive tackle Carl Davis and defensive end Kapron Lewis-Moore are inactive for Baltimore. He threw for 63 yards versus Seattle in Week 3 while with Chicago. It knocked him out of the contest and he went off to have x-rays.

Another 49-yard pass from Wilson to Lockett to open the fourth quarter boosted the margin to 22 points.

“I remember that game being incredibly hot”.

“We feel good about it”, Sherman said about the defense. “But, yes, I do have fond memories of that game”.

The Seattle Seahawks are still streaking. However, that is only good enough for second place in the NFC West and they are lagging well behind the 11-2 Arizona Cardinals.

“It’s a great opportunity”, Clausen said. The odds of that happening, according to a mathematician in the Washington Post, is more than 6,800 to 1.

Clausen practiced with the Ravens’ first-team offense all week, as Schaub was sidelined with a chest injury. “If it was going to be a game that got away from us, it was going to be a game where we were going to struggle”.

Rawls was likely on his way to a 1,000 yard season.

But Carroll said Chancellor could be back next week against Cleveland at CenturyLink Field. That made for an 86-yard drive in nine plays. Nearly every play the Bears had Clausen hand the ball toMatt Forte.

And Gurley had put up a total of 60 yards on the ground over the past two weeks before romping for 140 yards and a pair of TDs on 16 carries against the Detroit Lions. He’s 27 years old and hasn’t appeared in a regular-season game since 2013.

It’s Clausen’s second start of the season.

The last quarterback to do this was Kyle Orton in 2011.

Carroll said the team might acquire another running back, adding, “We’ll wait and see” when asked what the team will do. As WR’s, we will continue to make the most out of our opportunities.

Clausen was signed off waivers by the Ravens on November 24, two days after starter Joe Flacco was lost for the season with a knee injury.

The Seahawks’ plan is to gang up on running backs and lanes, then force second- and third-tier quarterbacks to try to beat them – with Avril and Bennett flying at them with no thought of having to stop the run. Peterson gained just 18 yards, third-fewest of his 10-year career. Newton has an additional 480 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on the ground, while Wilson has 456 rushing yards and one additional touchdown.

Seattle went on to win in overtime.

Nearly everything has been turning in the Seahawks’ offense’s favor lately.

Wilson the game manager, the guy who can’t throw from the pocket, who’s too short, dating the wrong woman, too caught up in being a celebrity, and with nothing but pedestrian scrubs as linemen and receivers, just kept shutting people up.

In 2012, the Seahawks started 6-5 before winning out until the Divisional Playoff game.

The Baltimore Ravens (4-8) will play as spoilers after losing to the Miami Dolphins, 15-13, last week. They are playing so well that it seems like the defense could have 13 defenders on the field, and the Seahawks would still hang 30 points on them.

“Right now, we’re taking it day by day, hour by hour”, he said midweek.

Whatever. This is one the Seahawks should win.

The Ravens haven’t won many games, but kept them close. That nearly assuredly will be either Washington, the New York Giants, Philadelphia or Dallas in an NFC East where no team is better than 5-7. “We’ve hung together, and we’re trying to finish this thing off”. It was a rare gaffe for the rookie who has impressed coaches and could challenge the injured Justin Forsett for a starting role next season.