Seahawks’ Russell Wilson seeks to shake off 5-pick day
Russell Wilson suffered through a miserable Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Field against the Green Bay Packers, throwing a career-high five interceptions in Seattle’s 38-10 loss.
“I can’t tell you”, McCarthy said. They believed when they were in the midst of a four-game losing streak, and they believe now, even though their three-game winning streak hasn’t given them control of their playoff fate at 7-6. And if so, what? “I’ll see Aaron in the quarterback meeting shortly and we’ll see where he is”. I think definitely it was a statement. Could they have possibly been saying ‘Hey, this game really isn’t that important?’ When this thing started going downhill, did they really stay into it?
It’s time to rethink a lot of things we held as indisputable about the current Seattle Seahawks. Seattle had 31 sacks in the first 10 games before the recent drought. “It’s just something at this time we have to push behind us and get going”. Our backs are still against the wall. “We have to play to our play-style and play to our strengths and improve”, McCarthy said. The first came with Seattle threatening, as Packers cornerback Quinten Rollins grabbed an end-zone deflection. “We got him once”. We have a lot stuff out in front of us at the end of this season, and we have to be together in putting this behind us and moving forward. And we’re battle-tested. We’ve been through this all through our lives. We had guys going in and out of the game again tonight with injury.
DE Damontre Moore (foot) will not play this week due to a ligament strain in his foot. We could have easily folded.
“We all knew deep down in our hearts that we could do that anyway”, Hyde said. Unless they find a way to change that, they will not be a significant factor in the playoffs because the NFC’s road to the Super Bowl will not go through Seattle.
“You can never be complacent in this game”. How has the team grown from the many setbacks it has endured? When a team employee greeted Rodgers with a hug and asked how he was feeling, the quarterback said, “I’m hurting man”. You can grow from experiences.
There’s really not much Seattle can learn from this loss, so CBS Sports’ John Breech has a suggestion. You can learn from your mistakes. Despite severely limited mobility, the Packers gave up only one sack against a Seahawks defense that entered the game ranked fourth in sacks. They can use that as support for the next game and correct the mistakes.
“You have to be smart about it”, Matthews said. Safety Micah Hyde, sitting at his locker after Sunday’s win, brought up Rodgers’ “run the table” comment unprompted. Those guys work their butts off every day. Despite their record not being where they would’ve liked it, the Packers have played some great football lately. There are teams such as the Chiefs, Lions, Raiders and Giants that have better records than Seattle’s, but I doubt any of them strike the same level of fear into opponents’ hearts. It has been very important for us. The NFC jumble guarantees these teams can’t all win, but it also mandates they can’t all lose either.
The injury certainly didn’t impact Rodgers’ effectiveness – he completed 18 of 23 passes for 246 yards and three touchdowns for a passer rating of 150.8, the fourth-highest single-game rating of his career – but he did exit the game with 11 minutes, 46 seconds to play in favor of backup Brett Hundley. “I don’t know; that’s the way it went”. He continues to do this. We won’t have to wait long to see how they rebound from their latest stinker, because they’ll be hosting the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday night. I thought I was able to contribute and have some good rushes.