Seattle Seahawks: 3 Big takeaways from loss vs. 49ers in Week 15

The offense can’t carry the Seahawks

If you sit back and look at the box score in a vacuum, the Seahawks offense didn’t have a bad day. Russell Wilson completed 23 of 31 pass attempts for 237 yards and two touchdowns while Chris Carson carried the ball 22 times for 119 yards and a touchdown. Doug Baldwin had his best game of the year, catching four passes for 77 yards and both of Wilson’s scores. The team as a whole finished with 168 rushing yards and averaged 4.8 yards per carry.

So, what went wrong? To begin with, 23 points isn’t enough to win in the modern NFL. Beyond that, the Seahawks offense, with all of its ground-and-pound ability, doesn’t have the firepower to carry the team every game.

The defense needs to do more for Seattle to stay in higher scoring games. Against the 49ers the defense did record three sacks, courtesy of the pass rushing duo of Frank Clark and Jarran Reed, but that just wasn’t enough.

Now I’m not saying the defense needs to score or anything, but they need to create turnovers and give the Seattle offense better field positioning. If the two units could line up and work better together, then Seattle will have a better chance of pulling through in these close games.