Seahawks Week 4 Recap

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A game for the ages. Week 4 pitted the Seahawks against the 49ers in a back and forth duel. The Seahawks would jump out to an early 7-0 lead but would find it difficult to continue the momentum. The 49ers played a steady game and eventually took a double digit lead before the Seahawks came roaring back to close out a nail biter 21-20.

This was 49ers QB Russell Wilson's first game against his former team and he would finish with 183 pass yards to go along with 2 TDs and 1 INT. The 49ers played a very balanced game throwing and running the ball a similar amount. The ground game was not able to find holes outside of 1 big run by HB T. Maroney for 62 yards. The ground game finished at 79 yards on 17 carries. As always with the 9ers, they played great defense forcing Cam Newtons 1st, 2nd, and 3rd INTs on the season.

Newton was relied on more in this game than any of the first 3 weeks as he completed 24 of 32 passes for 277 yards 2TDs and 3INTs. HB Frank Bethel struggled for the second week in a row tallying only 39 yards on 16 carries. WR Gavin Dildine, in his first week back from the broken ribs caught 9 balls for 126 yards and 1 TD. The play of the game had to go to WR Tyler Lockett though. Newton through a pass to Gavin Dildine which was deflected high into the air by 49ers CB Eric Rowe. Lockett raced across the field and made a diving catch for a 20 yard gain and would go on to finish with 81 yards on 6 grabs.

The Seahawks defense as a whole played solid allowing a total of 251 yards while forcing 1 INT. They gathered 2 sacks but had multiple pressures. The Seahawks came very close to losing this game and without a few lucky breaks surely would have fallen to Coach OldMeatHead and the division rival 49ers.

Check back in with us next week as the Seahawks go into their bye at 4-0. Some exciting moves were made in the front office and we will break down those trades as well as touch on some 1/4 season team stats.

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