Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald met with the media on Monday after Seattle’s 17-3 win over the Arizona Cardinals.
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Seattle went into Sunday's game without a number of notable starters because of injuries, including Sam Darnold, Leonard Williams and Charles Cross. On Monday, Macdonald confirmed that Darnold and Quenton Nelson will be week to week and emphasized that they have not placed either offensive player on injured reserve.
Macdonald did say that there is a chance other injured players could be back for this Sunday's game against the Las Vegas Raiders.
"I'd say we haven't ruled anybody out yet, but I think everybody needs to make progress. So nobody's in, nobody's out," Macdonald said.
He also said that the plan is for Drew Lock to play, despite an oblique injury.
"He has some sort of oblique," Macdonald said. "We're going to put a game plan together and we expect him to be able to play. So it should be a similar approach to last week, I would imagine."
Along with those injury updates, here's what else Macdonald said in his Monday press conference.
"D-Law, he played a great game," Macdonald said. "He really did. I thought he dominated his one-on-ones, played with incredible energy, run out of the stack, winning pass rushes, being dominant in the run game. He's pretty remarkable."
He added: "He had a really impressive performance."
Drew Lock had a good game playing in place of Sam Darnold.
Seattle was without quarterback Sam Darnold on Sunday who is dealing with quadricep and rib injuries, and Drew Lock played well in his place. Lock threw for 175 yards and one touchdown on 19 completions and didn't turn the ball over once.
"Drew played really well," Macdonald said. "I know we didn't throw for a million yards, but thought he was efficient. He came up with some big time plays on third down when we needed him and managed the game well with some of the stuff we were asking the quarterback to do. So having done that through all the other stuff I thought was pretty awesome."
This was Lock's second start of the season and Macdonald said he should start in this Sunday's game as well.
Nick Emmanwori did a 'great job' covering All-Pro tight end Trey McBride.
If you're just looking at the stat sheet, you'd think safety Nick Emmanwori had a relatively quiet game. He had two quarterback pressures, two tackles, one quarterback hit and one pass defensed.
What those stats don't tell you is how well he played matched up against All-Pro tight end Trey McBride, specifically on third and fourth-down plays. On a fourth-and-2 play, and a chance for the Cardinals to get into the endzone for the first time all game, Emmanwori perfectly gets a hand on the ball to knock it away from McBride for an incomplete pass.
"We asked him to match up a few times and he did a great job," Macdonald said. "I think he had a great mentality throughout the week. He was on his details and I think you saw that kind of manifest itself in the game by him just letting it rip and playing a great game. I mean, we asked him to blitz, we asked him to cover. Obviously the play in the red zone was awesome and then we had a plan for him to rush as well. We just weren't able to get to some of those situations that we wanted to."