Screamin12th
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The defense was one of the worst defenses in football last year. Easily bottom 5 and arguably the worst run defense in football.
IMO the biggest indictment of late era Pete Carroll was he kept trying to run an offense that relied on having a strong defense. People forget that those great Seahawk teams routinely had games were the offense would do nothing for the first half. But because the defense so good, they could just grind down defenses.
The offense was wildly inconsistent, largely based on the health of the offensive line. But too often they were playing from behind and simply didn't have enough offensive drives. Pete's style isn't really designed to play from behind.
IIRC, the defense had the fewest 3 and outs in the NFL last year.
The Seahawks offenses was about average last year, which is pretty bad given the talent on that side of the ball. The Seahawk defense was straight up bad, which is why changes needed to happen.
Seahawks Defense was ranked 4th worst in 3 and outs on percentage of drives at 21% the Eagles Chargers and Broncos were worse. Steelers defense was only 2.9% better and they were a top 10 defense. A better stat is Points per play, and plays per game, Like i posted above. In a NFL game teams average almost one 3 and out per quarter on offense. Or just under 4 per game. ( 3.92 ) seattle averaged on defense 3.62 per game. So yes below average but they also faced on average almost 2 more drives per game because the offense couldn't sustain.
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