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With the Seattle Seahawks recently hiring a new offensive line coach, changes may be coming. Everyone knows that the offensive line struggled this year, but who were the main culprits? To try to get a handle on the most frequent breakdowns on plays in which Russell Wilson was sacked, I put together a six-minute video of each play in which he was sacked, shown at 75 percent speed.
On the plays in which there was no immediate pressure, I marked “coverage/Wilson” because in this end zone angle we can’t tell if Wilson was sacked despite a receiver being open or because there were no receivers open. For the others, I did my best to assign primary blame (full play by play list below). The final count: Rees Odhiambo 3, Germain Ifedi 2, Duane Brown 2, Matt Tobin 1 (tackles combined: 8), Mark Glowinski 2, Luke Joeckel 5, Ethan Pocic 3, Oday Aboushi 1 (guards combined: 9), Justin Britt 2, J.D. McKissic 1, Thomas Rawls 1.
This is not a comprehensive look at Seattle’s pass protection: Wilson was frequently under pressure (as he has been his entire career), so this is a glimpse at only the small fraction of pressures in which he was sacked. The next installment will look at rushing plays in which the Seahawks lost yardage (there are a lot!).
Here is the clip:
Here’s how I would assign blame for each play, in order:
- Odhiambo (GB)
- Glowinski (GB)
- Joeckel (GB)
- Coverage/Wilson (GB)
- Coverage/Wilson (SF)
- Coverage/Wilson (SF)
- Probably Glowinski (SF)
- Bad snap (Britt) (TEN)
- Coverage/Wilson (IND)
- Coverage/Wilson (IND)
- Coverage/Wilson (IND)
- McKissic (LARM)
- Coverage/Wilson (LARM)
- Odhiambo (LARM)
- Coverage/Wilson (NYG)
- Odhiambo (HOU)
- Coverage/Wilson
- Britt (WAS)
- Pocic (WAS)
- Coverage/Wilson (ARI)
- Probably Rawls but arguably Ifedi (ARI)
- Coverage/Wilson (ARI)
- Tobin (ARI)
- Coverage/Wilson (ARI)
- Ifedi (ATL)
- Aboushi (ATL)
- Coverage/Wilson (ATL)
- Joeckel (PHI)
- Joeckel (PHI)
- Ifedi gives up the sack but earned a hands to the face penalty for a Seattle first down (JAC)
- Coverage/Wilson (JAC)
- Coverage/Wilson (JAC)
- Pocic (JAC)
- Coverage/Wilson (LARM)
- Pocic (LARM)
- Brown (LARM)
- Joeckel (LARM)
- Joeckel (LARM)
- Coverage/Wilson (LARM)
- Coverage/Wilson (LARM)
- Coverage/Wilson (DAL)
- Brown (DAL)
- Coverage/Wilson (DAL)
- Coverage/Wilson (ARI)
- Ifedi (ARI)
- Coverage/Wilson (ARI)
- Coverage/Wilson (ARI)