By 2016, the Seahawks’ depth couldn’t bear witness to that fitness. It’s tempting and even fair in abstract to insist the defense performed as “designed” when at full strength, but the truth was the team’s contingency for losing a key player didn’t meet the group’s standard-which may be a hyper expectation but is part of the intention built into that word design.įolks still sometimes blame Chris Clemons’s torn ACL for how the 2012 season finished, after all an injury that helped prompt the front office to go get Cliff Avril and Bennett, and although there was no comparable casualty to Thomas in 2013 part of what made 2013 worth reminiscing over was how exceptionally the defense was stacked. Like similar studies analyzing the cost of Thomas’s absence, those contrasts are revealing but they’re also picking from smaller and smaller samples. And you can even see one alternate ending where the pass defense rather improves on that figure down the stretch, since Michael Bennett was just returning from missing five games after surgery when Thomas went out (the Seahawks allowed 3.7 ANY/A with its full complement of coverage and pressure before Bennett’s swollen knee sidelined him-approaching the ridiculous 3.2 adjusted net yards per pass play from 2013). Yes you can slice it to show Seattle was good enough with Thomas for 10 games (4.8 ANY/A, a full 1.4 yards better than league average 6.2 in 2016) that it was actually on pace in that segment for its best rate since 2013. Specifically, the overall differential tumbled to within 0.3 yards of league average ending the streak of four straight years with a margin more than a yard per attempt superior to the rest of the league. Unfortunately, the follow up is about what you’d expect: The Seahawks in 2016 were great with Earl Thomas and bad without him, which tells us everything and nothing. Last year I compared season-long ANY/A differential to combat the narrative that Seattle’s pass coverage had a poor year in 2015 compared to the standards established by the Legion of Boom from 2011-2014. Training Camp: Virginia Mason Athletic Center (Renton, Washington) More Team InfoĢ85 for 452, 3,475 yards, 20 td, 7 int, & 118 rushes for 849 yards and 6 tdĢ80 rushes for 1,306 yards, 13 td, & 37 catches for 367 yards and 4 tdĦ6 catches for 825 yards, 3 td, & 1 rush for 8 yards and 0 tdģ8 catches for 537 yards, 1 td, & 2 rushes for 15 yards and 0 tdħ.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 0 fumbles recoveredġ.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 0 fumbles recoveredĥ.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 1 fumble recoveredĦ.5 sacks, 2 interceptions, 0 fumbles recoveredĢ.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 0 fumbles recoveredĢ.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 1 fumble recoveredĠ.0 sacks, 4 interceptions, 0 fumbles recoveredĠ.0 sacks, 2 interceptions, 1 fumble recoveredĠ.0 sacks, 1 interception, 0 fumbles recoveredĠ.I had been intending all offseason to take a look at how the Seattle Seahawks’ pass defense performed in 2016 relative to past years, using adjusted net yards per pass attempt allowed like I did in my first-ever post for Field Gulls. Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +450 O/U: 11.0 Head Coach/VP of Football Ops: Pete Carroll (Head Coach has personnel authority)Įxecutive VP/General Manager: John Schneider (Head Coach has personnel authority) Secondary), Ken Norton (Linebackers), Kris Richard (Defensive Backs), Carl Smith (Quarterbacks) and Sherman Smith (Running Backs) Other Notable Asst.: Kippy Brown (Wide Receivers), Tom Cable (Assistant HC/Offensive Line), Dave Canales (Wide Receivers), Marquand Manuel (Asst.
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