Preseason is over, and the Seattle Seahawks didn’t win a recreation. What was received on the evening was a beginning job for quarterback Geno Smith, however I feel most suspected that was a formality studying between the strains. We noticed an abundance of gamers working exhausting to remain within the NFL and it made for a loopy recreation even by preseason requirements.

Let’s dive into Winners and Losers for the ultimate time this month.

Winners

Geno Smith

Chances are you’ll not prefer it however at the least for now he’s the starter. Smith is the “boring” possibility and he’s not superb, however why get labored up when neither he nor Drew Lock is more likely to be the beginning QB in 2023? Anyway, I believed this actually easy play to Tyler Lockett was encouraging.

DeeJay Dallas

He’s been a little bit of a preseason all-star in every of his three seasons however he’s regarded the perfect on this explicit exhibition stint. Dallas rushed for 75 yards on 13 carries and a landing, with the majority of his success approaching a drive through which he touched the ball 10 instances out of 11 performs. Each him and Travis Homer have carried out so properly that it must be re-assuring that the Seahawks have high quality working again depth.

Jason Myers

Hey, I can’t knock 4/Four on area targets and a pair of/2 on PATs. Myers was on his recreation and wasn’t having shut shaves on any of these kicks, both.

Myles Adams

Adams had a sort out for a loss and a half-sack and a number of other QB pressures. I favored him final preseason and the large man on the inside has made a very good case for being on the 53-man roster.

Michael Jackson

Jackson performed the entire recreation, which meant a slew of fantastic Michael Jackson-song puns made by Michael Robinson and Michael Bennett. The skin cornerback was stable on his assignments all evening and made a important play on the ball late within the 4th quarter to provide the Seahawks yet another shot at a win (which they instantly squandered). I imagine Jackson will make the roster… however will he begin Week 1? You by no means know. Jackson and Josh Jones have been two preseason standouts.

Charles Cross and Abe Lucas

They is likely to be your two beginning tackles come Week 1. Cross was penalty-free and I believed he regarded excellent. I don’t pin Geno Smith’s sack on him, as Smith just about bumped into it in a poor man’s model of Russell Wilson’s worst sacks. He seems to be the a part of an NFL left sort out and I can’t wait to see him in opposition to first-team competitors. Ditto for Lucas, who’s attempting to be the pancake king. I’m extra of a waffle man, myself.

Losers

Drew Lock

There was a number of defending of Lock’s efficiency tonight that puzzles me. I’ll give him full marks for the landing move as that’s him at his finest and that’s what Pete Carroll certainly needs out of this passing assault, however past that? Yeah that was not an excellent audition. I feel the primary interception, even when there’s some culpability on Dee Eskridge, is horribly telegraphed and the truth that the defensive again jumped the path to perfection ought to clue you in that it’s a dangerous throw even when Eskridge does his job. His second choose is highschool horrible and the third one is admittedly one Aaron Fuller ought to catch, however he threw a number of different passes that have been almost picked in opposition to a number of gamers who doubtless is not going to be on Dallas’ roster on Tuesday.

You may play conspiracy all you need or bemoan him not getting an opportunity with the first-team, however — I say this as somebody who needed Lock to win the job — he has now been unable to win competitions on two totally different groups in opposition to Geno Smith, Joe Flacco, and Teddy Bridgewater. That’s not a assassin’s row of quarterbacks. Sooner or later it’s a must to marvel if it’s simply unhealthy coaches not giving him an opportunity or (the much more doubtless story) Lock is simply not good. Or reasonably, his terrible moments are so terrible that they’re insupportable to coaches.

His ceiling might be increased than Smith’s however his flooring? It seems to be lots like that second interception and a shitload of different harmful passes he threw. We would see Lock begin later within the season, we additionally would possibly see him not even on this roster on Tuesday relying on how a lot Carroll detested his efficiency.

Seattle’s vast receiver depth

The dropoff from Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf to everybody else on the depth chart is each scary and exemplifies why a few of us have freaked out concerning the Seahawks’ strategy to the vast receiver place lately. Dareke Younger and Bo Melton are most likely happening the follow squad however they’ve dropped too many passes to justify a roster spot. Freddie Swain has had a reasonably uninspiring preseason and isn’t a roster lock. Solely Penny Hart and possibly Cade Johnson (sans muffed punt) have staked cheap claims for a roster spot. I imagine Dee Eskridge, Hart, and Marquise Goodwin would be the ones who spherical out WRs 3-5.

Dakoda Shepley

Actually he must be a winner to me as a result of I’m unsure I’ve laughed that onerous at a Seahawks turnover earlier than. He will need to have thought he was snapping the ball to Tacko Fall, as a result of it was actually too excessive for Jacob Eason to understand. I used to be entertained by the folly, the coaches much less so.

Stone Forsythe

In the event that they don’t transfer him to protect then he has no place within the NFL. He’s too gradual to be a sort out and that’s not going to be magically mounted.

Closing Notes

• Poor Jacob Eason. He has an opportunity to win the sport thrice over and the tip outcomes have been horrible in several methods, and none of it on him.
• It regarded like Marquise Blair had a greater efficiency than final week, together with a close to interception. With the harm to Ryan Neal I feel he hangs onto his roster spot however solely barely.
• Hopefully Alton Robinson is alright after dinging up his knee. I believed he performed properly and may carve out a distinct segment as a situational move rusher.
• Joel Dublanko was significantly higher than final week’s horror present, and I feel that provides him an opportunity to make the follow squad.
• Kenneth Walker’s harm I think is likely to be good motive for Darwin Thompson to make the preliminary 53. He’s been flashy and shifty in his preseason touches and is hardly an unknown commodity given his time in Kansas Metropolis.
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