Can Seattle Win Without Russ Cooking?
The Lead
Wondery
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
During the first half of this NFL season, there was almost no stopping Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf and the Seattle Seahawks passing game. However, in the second half, it’s been a lot less #LetRussCook, and a lot more of Russ handing off, with the team grinding out wins on defense. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Michael-Shawn Dugar to look at why Pete Carroll’s Seahawks have made such a dramatic shift in playing style, and how the whole thing is sitting with their franchise QB.
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| 0:37.5 | Early on the season, there was pretty much no stopping Russell Wilson and the Seahawks |
| 0:41.5 | offense. |
| 0:42.5 | Back to back five touchdown games, and now an NFL record for Russell Wilson, 14 touchdown |
| 0:48.0 | passes through the first three games. |
| 0:50.1 | But lately, the Seahawks have gone from letting Russ cook to asking Russ to hand it off and |
| 0:55.9 | then grinding the game out on defense. |
| 0:57.6 | Today, the athletics Michael Sean Dugar on Y Seattle has changed its playing style so much, |
| 1:19.0 | how it can impact their game against the Rams and how this whole situation is sitting |
| 1:23.5 | with Russell Wilson. |
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| 2:19.3 | Well, so Mike, when we last talked to you, it was the height of let Russ cook, right? |
| 2:25.0 | Russell Wilson had 19 touchdown passes in the Seahawks first five games, all of them wins. |
| 2:31.1 | Can you tell us how that strategy has changed during the second half of the season? |
| 2:34.7 | Well, they're still trying to cook, but the other teams have gotten smart. |
| 2:38.4 | So it might as be as simple as they follow profile focus on Twitter, because what profile |
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