The Seattle Seahawks’ new-look offense didn’t have a good debut, mustering just 13 points and 230 total yards in a season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
But in Week 2, the unit bounced back in a major way.
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The Seahawks’ offense totaled 24 points and 395 total yards in Sunday’s road win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, including an impressive second half that featured an 80-yard touchdown drive, a 55-yard field-goal drive and a game-sealing 73-yard touchdown drive.
During his weekly appearance on Seattle Sports’ Wyman and Bob, NFL on FOX analyst and former two-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman Mark Schlereth highlighted the offensive strides the Seahawks made from Week 1 to Week 2.
“You saw some growth,” Schlereth said. “You saw a little bit better offense, a little bit better combination of running the ball and tying your play-action together on that stuff.”
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Seattle’s run game came alive on Sunday, with the Seahawks piling up 117 rushing yards and 4.0 yards per carry against the Steelers after mustering just 84 rushing yards and 3.2 yards per carry against the 49ers.
The passing game was much more effective and explosive, with Darnold throwing for 295 yards against Pittsburgh after being held to just 150 yards against San Francisco.
The Seahawks executed much better on third downs, converting 6 of 14 against the Steelers after going just 3 of 10 against the 49ers.
And as Schlereth mentioned, new offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak’s play-calling seemed much more connected and tied together. Most notably, after the Seahawks bafflingly had a league-low 7.7% play-action rate in Week 1, they used play-action on 34.3% of Darnold’s dropbacks in Week 2, according to Pro Football Focus.
“Kubiak called a better game against Pittsburgh,” Schlereth said. “I thought they were better tying (together) the play-pass and the play-action stuff. … The offense just functioned better.
“In the preseason, everybody’s very vanilla against you (and) everything kind of works,” he added. “And then all of a sudden, it’s not in that first game. And so I thought offensively as a staff, it just felt like there was a better rhythm to the play calling (and) they were having better execution.”
Listen to the full conversation with Mark Schlereth at this link or in the audio player at the bottom of this story. Tune into Wyman and Bob weekdays from 2 to 7 p.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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