Round One of the Battle of the NFC West went to the Los Angeles Rams for two glaring reasons. Turnovers and the inability to finish plays inside the red zone. First, the turnovers. Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold threw a career-high four interceptions. The Rams converted two of the four interceptions into touchdowns.
The Seahawks offense scored it’s first touchdown with six minutes left in the game. Up until then the Seahawks settled for four field goals. Despite the interceptions and the inability to score touchdowns, the game came down to Jason Myers’ missed 61-yard field goal to end the game.
“ The Rams are a really good team. And we knew that go into the game. We needed to be able to capitalize on scoring opportunities in the red zone. We knew we were going to obviously have to take care of the football, and we didn’t that,’ said Mike Macdonald . “ We took it away once on defense, but we have to make the ball come to life a bit more on defense as well, so. We’re gonna go get back and attack the heck out of this week, just like we would if the field goal went in. Encouraged by our group, but I was very disappointed that we lost.”
DEFENSIVE IMPROVEMENT WAS ENCOURAGING
Besides the resiliency and fight back, the Seahawks’ defense gave the offense every opportunity to win the game. The defense held the Rams offense to 249 total yards, 12 first downs. The Rams’ offense was 2-11 on third down. Coming into the game the Rams converted 40% of their third down attempts.
“ Our defense was phenomenal today and when put them in short field situations they made big stops over and over, “ said Cooper Kupp. “ Offensive we have to find ways to capitalize on the momentum swings we just did a poor job of it today, and didn’t finish in the red zone. “
THE FIRST OF MANY TESTS TO COME
The loss to the Rams served a barometer for the Seahawks. The team as a whole was bitterly disappointed in the loss to their Rams who now lead the NFC West with a 8-2 record. What the Seahawks learned from the game is that they are a very good team; the difference between the two teams is a razor-thin margin.
There is no guarantee that when the two meet on December 18th in Lumen Field, the Seahawks will win. The lesson learned from the game is that if the Seahawks play their style of football and execute, they will be in a position to beat the Rams.
“We’re gonna be seeing a lot of these guys, we’re gonna see them twice a year, possibly three, and to me, it’s like, who evolves best from game to game,” said Macdonald in his post-game interview.” Who learns from it? Who grows the most? Who is going to get the advantage every time we play? But every time we play, it’s a absolute knockdown and drag it out fight.”
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