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It’s been an up and down season for the Seattle Seahawks, but with far more downs than ups lately.
After a 3-0 start, the Seahawks have lost five of their past six games, many of them in excruciating fashion. The worst part is that they beat themselves more often than not, and they feel like they could have easily won some of those games.
After a much-needed bye week, Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith confidently asserted that his team can compete with any other team as long as they clean up the wrongdoings.
“I think we can beat anyone,” Smith said Thursday. “I think we have the guys in this locker room, we have the coaches, we have the right mentality, we have the right work ethic. I think we have to be a little bit smarter and certainly smarter situationally. that we need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot, and stop putting ourselves in backup situations early on.
“It will be difficult in this competition when we play in the third and long division. I mean the percentage isn’t high so the more we can put ourselves in manageable situations the better we are and we’ve been great on the third-and-middle game so just thinking about first and second down , those are the most important things: being better on first and second down, which will help us on third down.”
As previously mentioned, Smith is absolutely right when he says the Seahawks are shooting themselves in the foot. In their five defeats this season, they have turned the ball over 11 times and committed nine or more penalties four times. Eliminating those mistakes is obviously easier said than done, but it shows that sometimes the Seahawks are their own worst enemy.
The Seahawks are coming off their bye week with a road game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, and if they want to have any chance of winning that game, they’re going to have to clean up their act. In the previous meeting, a 36-24 win for the 49ers on the road, the Seahawks had three turnovers and nine penalties for 69 yards. Obviously that can’t happen this time.
“I think when you think about division opponents, these games matter the most, especially with the 49ers,” Smith said. “They have been at the top of our division for a while, one of the best teams in the league, and if we want to be that type of team that we say we are, we have to go through teams like this and I there’s no doubt in my mind what kind of guys we have, the kind of preparation we’ll do and the way we’ll step on that field I know I’ll do that with that chip on my shoulder, that edge that I always have and I know my boys are too.”
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