Fragen und Antworten » Seahawks injury report: Concerns raised

with more starters sidelined The Seattle Seahawks were without Doug Baldwin for pretty much the entire preseason windup to Week 1 http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-sebastian-janikowski-jersey , and by now most of you know that he’ll be sidelined for at least a few weeks more with a partially torn MCL. That made Baldwin’s appearance on the Did Not Practice list unsurprising on Thursday, but he wasn’t the only starter to be out of commission this week with an injury.That list now includes All-Pro linebacker Bobby Wagner, who missed Thursday’s practice with a groin injury.Wagner’s injury was news to everyone on Thursday and as of now, we’ll have to see if he’s upgraded to ‘limited’ or ‘full’ on Friday for some positive news leading into the Seahawks Monday Night game against the Chicago Bears. Last year, Seattle was without K.J. Wright and Wagner was limited in a 42-7 loss to the LA Rams. We can be certain that Wright won’t play against the Bears, making Wagner’s availability and health that much more important.Austin Calitro is the backup to Wagner on the inside, while Shaquem Griffin had started in place of Wright in Week 1. Unfortunately, Griffin’s start was not enough to dissuade Seattle from signing legally-troubled linebacker Mychal Kendricks this week. Kendricks has experience on both the inside and outside, so he could find himself in a number of spots on Monday, as Pete Carroll is not likely to waste a moment before playing his new veteran defender.That’s not all though.Right guard D.J. Fluker is looking more and more likely to delay his Seahawks debut by another week, giving J.R. Sweezy his second start. The first one was not all that encouraging from my point of view, but Carroll went as far as to say that Seattle wasn’t much worse off without Earl Thomas for certain plays last week so who knows what the Seahawks coaching staff will say about the performance of the right side of the offensive line. To be fair http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-j.r.-sweezy-jersey , Sweezy missed the entire preseason, so hopefully one less game of rust will improve his performance somewhat against a front-seven that includes Khalil Mack, Akiem Hicks, Leonard Floyd, and Roquan Smith.That is also not all though.Already wafer thin at cornerback as is, rookie Tre Flowers missed practice Thursday with a hamstring injury. Flowers struggled in his NFL debut — who could blame him for that? — but where will the Seahawks turn to next? Akeem King could go from missing the cut two weeks ago to starting for the defense against Allen Robinson. Let me say “tight” in a heavily sarcastic tone for that one. Neiko Thorpe has two career starts in his first five seasons. The truth is that with or without Flowers, this side of the unit is in trouble.Oh, is that all? Not at all.Bradley McDougald and Dion Jordan were limited with knee injuries on Thursday as well. There doesn’t appear to be any danger yet for either missing Monday’s game, and in fact Jordan should be getting more playing time than he did last week, but no injuries are good injuries and now would be a horrible time to have to start Delano Hill at strong safety over McDougald. Jordan could be a key player in trying to disrupt Mitchell Trubisky’s timing on a primetime stage.So what are we looking for overall as the next few days transpire?Is Wagner okay? If not, Calitro could get the start.Is Flowers okay? If not, King or Thorpe could be starting.Will Fluker make any strides towards returning or is Sweezy back on the job?Will Kendricks start at weakside linebacker days after signing?Is Keenan Reynolds going to get considerable snaps as “Doug Baldwin” while Doug Baldwin is out?Is McDougald actually fine?That’s a lot of injury questions for only Week 2. At least they get one extra day to figure it out.Mirage or Oasis? Projecting the rest of the Seattle Seahawks’ 2018 season Sunday afternoon saw the Seattle Seahawks crawling out of the NFC West basement by (finally) winning a game Seahawks Germain Ifedi Jersey , toppling the Dallas Cowboys 24-13 at CenturyLink Field. On the face of it, an 11-point win at home, with a 100-yard rusher and a +3 turnover differential might make you think that the team has officially turned the corner. I’m here to pour a tiny bit of cold water on that notion.Even Pete Carroll couldn’t help himself post-game when he talked about playing the game they wanted to, particularly with running the ball and controlling field position via the punting game. The thing is, though...The running game was bad, it was inefficient, wasteful at times and ill-advised.Using data from Warren Sharp’s Sharp Box Score, we see that the Seahawks ran a whopping17 times on 1st down alone for a grand total of 39 yards, which comes out to 2.3YPC and 41% Success Rate. Both of those metrics, YPC and Success Rate were below league averages of 4.2 YPC and 44% respectively in 2017. While running on 1st down is generally inefficient, the Seahawks were more inefficient than usual and yet committed to doing so on a horrifying 68% of their first downs. It’s one thing to commit to a philosophy, it’s another to stick to a philosophy that regularly puts you behind the sticks when you know you’re either bad at it or doing it far too often.The Seahawks are again being far too conservative on 4th down. Right after intercepting Dak Prescott (and having a huge return wiped off the board) http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-bobby-wagner-jersey , the Seahawks had a three-play drive for six yards ending with a drop by Brandon Marshall. The ball was on the Dallas 45-yard line, the Dallas defense hadn’t exactly looked great to that point, and the Seahawks defense has looked shaky for the previous two weeks. Rather than go for it on 4th down, the Seahawks punted 38 yards (dragging Michael Dickson’s average punt yardage down). Assuming even a league-average chance of making the 1st down, the Seahawks stood to benefit more by going for it than had they punted. Work done ages ago by Brian Burke and Kevin Quealy shows how NFL coaches continued to leave points on the field by being too conservative on 4th down.The pass rush finally showed upThe defense got pressure on Sunday in ways they didn’t over the previous two weeks, with 10 QB hits of Dak Prescott, 5 of which were sacks, and a pair of interceptions courtesy of Earl Thomas (Tongue in cheek: “Pay the man!”). The reason for cautious optimism here is three-fold. First, the Dallas receivers are legitimately bad, generating little separation at the line of scrimmage or late in routes. Secondly, the offense has been described as remedial in some circles, even garnering stinging criticism from former Cowboy WR Dez Bryant and is the butt of a great many jokes on Twitter. Most importantly however is the situation on their offensive line. Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick is out indefinitely with Guillain-Barr茅 syndrome http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-bradley-mcdougald-jersey , rookie second-rounder Connor Williams has been struggling mightily at guard, and La’el Collins is doing his best Germain Ifedi impression at right tackle. With those things in mind it’s hard to get too excited by the performance. We’ll have to wait until the Los Angeles Rams home game in two weeks before we can draw any solid conclusions about their effectiveness, or lack thereof.After reading this, you might be thinking that I’m completely down on the Seahawks, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. I like Chris Carson as a player even if I think the Seahawks are using him poorly (give him the ball in the air).I happen to think that Russell Wilson, when he’s on his game, is a great player and he showed some of that on Sunday with a number of decisive throws into really tight coverage, including the TD to Tyler Lockett.Mostly though it comes down to schedule. The Arizona Cardinals are bad, the San Francisco 49ers just lost their franchise QB Jimmy Garoppolo for the season and the Oakland Raiders are a dumpster fire, courtesy of Jon Gruden. That makes for five very winnable games this season, even if everything else is a complete toss-up.There are definite bright spots looking forward but it’s still impossible to say if they’re a mirage or the real deal.