Seahawks offense is a mess.
Whitehurst starts, plays for a few series, then Jackson comes in. A half dozen drops killls drives.
A dubious tuck rule and the ball hitting the official on the tuck rule, cost 2 or 7 points. Seattle goes for a draw play with 20 seconds to go...down to the 1, and the Bengals sit on him for 10 more seconds and the Seahawks come away with nothing. That was 5-14 points that Seattle could/should/would had, but didn't, in the first half.
Don't let the final score fool you, with 5 mins to go, it was a 5 point game. A CIN drive then got a FG, then a PR TD on the next Seattle stalled drive, and finally a long INT TD on the next Seattle drive.
Seattle's defense is playing pretty well overall, as they did last game, but the offense are full of drops, a poor running game. Too many 3 and out drives, and the defense, once again, has to be on the field for a large portion of the game.
SF has all but wrapped up the division. Seattle has to turn to figuring out the QB plan past this year to win these games (and ones like last week). Whitehurst is done, Jackson has one more year left. Jackson, being not 100%, played ok today, the afreomentioned drops didn't help, but there were points where the Seahawks were on track.
Seattle's lost 4 of thier 5 games with being within 1 score with 5 minutes or less to go. The lack of confidence and lack of finish by the offense especially has killed the team.
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