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Seahawks defense only team to ever allow more than 1,200 passing yards through three weeks

While Russell Wilson is setting records for the Seahawks offense, their pass defense is setting records of their own and not the good kind.
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In the first three games of the season against the Atlanta Falcons, New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys, the Seahawks have allowed an average of 430.7 yards per game passing. They allowed 434 yards to Matt Ryan and the Falcons, 397 yards to Cam Newton and the Patriots, and a season-high 461 yards to Dak Prescott and the Cowboys on Sunday.

“It’s not something I am accustomed to. It is not something I want to be accustomed to,” linebacker Bobby Wagner said.

The 1,292 passing yards allowed in the first three games of the season is the most in league history over that span since at least 1950, via Pro-Football-Reference. They are the only team over 1,200 yards allowed with the 2011 Patriots trailing by a 161 yards at 1,131 yards as the previous benchmark. The 2005 San Francisco 49ers (1,107) and 2010 Houston Texans (1,106) are the only other teams to allow even 1,100 passing yards over the first three games of the year.
 
Hopefully, the addition rest will have benefited Parker’s hamstring and we can exploit that secondary. Then it’s up to the defense to do their part. Hopefully, there will be someone shadowing Russell Wilson all day. It’ll be a good barometer as to where we are as a team, win or lose.
 
I think it's going to be a real high scoring affair Sunday. Fun fact: we're currently a top 10 defense in points allowed per game; but, I don't think that's lasting beyond Sunday lol.

Seattle's run defense is better this year (3.0 ypc) than last year (4.9 ypc), but small sample sizes. The Hawks defense has 33 sacks in the last 19 games. They've been a bottom ten defense for a while now and a far cry from the Super Bowl winning one. Seattle still wins this game on Sunday, but via the arm of Russell Wilson.
 
But teams were running pass heavy offenses and playing catch up to the Seahawks high flying passing game. Def not a good look for the Seahawks secondary or DL though...
 
I think they'll try to test our inexperienced oline with a variety of blitz packages and make us pass the ball. If we have success we may have a 50-50 type shootout...if not we'll lose by 50. Kind of hate they come in embarrassed
 
Something tells me that's more to do with Pete Carroll's game planning for those games than an inability by their pass defense. We'll have to see; If we are wise, we'll be prepared, in any event. Hopefully, Flo won't allow us to get trapped by something so ridiculously incredulous.
 
Seahawks are second in the league against the run, as funny as it sounds the secondary is actually forced to cover longer as a result of our practice squad D line. It’s a bend but don’t break philosophy. The D line lost 3 starters already. The back 7 is great when the D line is somewhat healthy. Forced to play rookies
 
Watching the games Wilson is clearly carrying the team not the defense.
 
The Seahawks know they are porous in the backend; they will make adjustments and we may have more difficulty passing if we take them lightly. We can not go into the game assuming we will pass freely on them. If Parker is not 100% and if our O-line slacks just a little we could be in trouble.
 
They don't need a great defense when their offense is that good.
 
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