Seahawks QB Russell Wilson practices with knee injury
The surgical performance came at the end of a week in which Wilson spent most of his time rehabbing his right knee.
The Seahawks are looking like that 2013 team that flew much higher than anyone in the league and had no discernible personnel or scheme weaknesses.
Certainly not the way they usually have the last few years, when their offense has been working at its best.
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Cassius Marsh hits New York Jets’ Ryan Fitzpatrick, left.
Wilson, supposedly hobbled by a sprained MCL, looked in vintage form against the Jets.
Perhaps Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said it best at his postgame press conference.
“I am shocked”, Marshall said. They know what he is capable of.
“At times like this, you don’t want to start a snowball effect and that losing streak mentality where people stop caring or something like that”, Jets running back Matt Forte said. “He can throw it from anywhere and it doesn’t matter”. And I could see Russ’ eyes, and we connected. Sunday featured the first regular-season game at right guard for rookie first-rounder Germain Ifedi. While Smith led the Jets through offseason workouts and OTA’s, Fitzpatrick played golf. Get used to them squawking more about it. A surgical Wilson went 8-for-8 during a pair of second quarter scoring drives that ended with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Spiller and a 42-yard-touchdown pass to a wide-open McEvoy. “I don’t have feelings on him I don’t know him but I have feelings on that play”, Mangold told reporters.
Going further, the Jets need to plug the rushing game into the game plan so that Ryan Fitzpatrick is not throwing the ball 45 times a game.
The Jets go on the road for games against Pittsburgh and Arizona.
Wilson missed the first snap of his career due to injury last weekend after getting pulled down by San Francisco’s Eli Harold. Wide receiver Doug Baldwin is still Wilson’s go-to target. “Russell is a scrambler and only works outside the pocket”. Four different players had catches of 25-plus yards Sunday.
Seattle Seahawks running back Christine Michael (32) scores a touchdown as Seattle Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane (20) attempts to force him out of bounds during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, in East Rutherford, N.J. Make sure you have your sound all the way up.
Albeit, it appeared he blamed the Jets more than he credited Wilson in a piece titled Jets dig themselves in deep hole with embarrassing loss to Seahawks.
A 33-yard field goal by Nick Folk capped the Jets’ first drive and gave NY a 3-0 lead it carried into the second quarter.
The heralded matchup between Jets WR Brandon Marshall and Seahawks CB Richard Sherman lived up to expectations. He came away with two picks. I am going to say this right now, bench Fitzpatrick and start Geno Smith. He’s going to play.
“I am shocked”, he said.
Marshall didn’t mean to say it, of course, but at 1-3 the ship is indeed sinking – the dismal closing scene at MetLife confirmed that much.
I based this on the belief that the offensive line would be the obstacle that would prevent the Seahawks, in spite of their many stars, from having the kind of success they’ve had in the past. “You got it?” said Marshall, measuring his words.