Seahawks Can’t Overcome Mistakes In Overtime Loss To Rams

In a wild, back-and-forth recreation that was full of massive performs and expensive errors by each groups, the Seahawks put collectively a memorable comeback to power additional time towards the Rams on Sunday. Within the additional interval, nonetheless, a fourth-and-1 rush try was stuffed on Seattle’s opening drive, and the Rams responded by driving the size of the sphere for the game-winning landing to safe a 26-20 victory.

Listed below are six fast reactions to Sunday’s loss, which drops Seattle’s file to 4-5 heading into the bye week:

1. As soon as once more, turnovers and penalties proved extremely pricey for the Seahawks.

A standard theme in Seattle’s losses this season has been an extra of pricey turnovers and penalties, and Sunday’s loss to the Rams was no completely different.

Most notably, Geno Smith was intercepted thrice, together with twice deep within the crimson zone, one in all which was returned 103 yards for a landing that put the Rams forward 20-13. The interceptions weren’t solely Smith’s fault—the primary went off Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s arms and will have been a catch. The second, which was returned for a rating, was inaccurate as a result of Smith’s arm obtained hit as he threw it. On the third, the Seahawks appeared to have a fairly professional grievance that the meant goal, AJ Barner, was held—however whatever the motive behind the turnovers, they nonetheless had an enormous influence on the sport.

With these three interceptions, the Seahawks have now turned the ball over 11 instances in 5 losses, together with a number of turnovers in 4 of these 5 video games. And whereas Smith battled again to steer a powerful game-tying drive, and completed his day with 363 yards and three touchdowns, that wasn’t sufficient to beat the harm attributable to the turnovers.

As for the penalties, the Seahawks had 12 enforced towards them for 95 yards, and lots of of them had large results on the sport, together with two defensive penalties, an unlawful contact and a roughing the passer name, each of which the Seahawks vehemently disagreed with, that prolonged a Rams scoring drive after obvious third-down stops, and two holding calls that negated lengthy completions to Jaxon Smith-Njigba.