A special 5 Qs and 5 As with fboutsiders on all things Seahawks, including the root cause for Jamal Adams’ 0 sacks in 2021
, and we’ve long used their DVOA metric on this site . DVOA holds a special place in the hearts of Seattle Seahawks fans, as from 2012-2015 the team was at the top of the league in overall DVOA, and not coincidentally those were by some distance the best Seahawks teams under Pete Carroll.
It’s safe to say the 2022 Seahawks will not finish #1 in DVOA and will struggle to finish in the top-10 again like they did last year. Having read the Seahawks chapter of the newly released Football Outsiders Almanac 2022, the view is pretty grim. With that in mind, SB Nation has partnered with FO both to promote the almanac, as well as get some in-depth answers about the Seahawks as it pertains to last year’s disappointment and a little preview of this year’s squad.
2.) Russell Wilson to Geno Smith or Drew Lock is going to be a downgrade, no doubt about it. Which portions of the Seahawks passing game figure to be impacted the most with this QB change?One of the most surprising things I learned while writing the Seattle chapter was that DK Metcalf had much better numbers on throws from Geno Smith than he did from Russell Wilson, either before Wilson’s finger injury or after .
It’s a similar story on offense—Metcalf and Tyler Lockett are a very good one-two punch at wideout, but their third wide receiver, Freddie Swain, had fewer catches for fewer yards than Christian McCaffrey, a running back on a terrible offense who missed 10 games. A normal team would have added another wideout to compete with Swain and Dee Eskridge. Seattle drafted another running back instead. The entire notion that you can win in the modern NFL with running and defense is totally outdated.
5.) Only two starters from the 2021 Seahawks offensive line remain on the 2022 unit: Gabe Jackson and Damien Lewis. Without giving too much away, the Almanac is unkind to Seattle’s OL. What in particular were they bad at, and was there a dropoff in 2021 performance from either Jackson or Lewis compared to 2020?In total, they were bad at almost everything—they finished 28th in blown block rate on both runs and passes. But there were some highlights, and Jackson was one of them.
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