Win Over Lowly Rams Does Little To Alleviate Questions Surrounding Seahawks

On Thursday night in Seattle, the Seahawks did what they were supposed to. They dispatched the cellar-dwelling Los Angeles Rams 24-3 to move to 9-4-1 and wash off some of the stink from last week’s blowout loss at Green Bay.

The Seahawks also did what they needed to, trouncing a bad football team to keep the heat on the Detroit Lions (I know—it felt weird typing it too) for the No. 2 seed in the NFC.

But the win wasn’t as impressive between the lines as it was on the scoreboard. This was an opportunity for the Seahawks to make a real statement after the Dallas Cowboys stumbled last Sunday night. To send a message that they, and not the Cowboys or Lions, are the team to beat in the NFC.

Instead, the same problems that have dogged the team all season long remained in evidence. The sorts of problems that did them in at Green Bay.

The types of problems that could be their undoing in the postseason.

In one respect at least, the Seahawks righted the ship. Or one did, anyway.

One week after a five-interception waking nightmare of a performance, Russell Wilson got well against an injury-riddled Rams secondary. Wilson told ESPN’s Sheil Kapadia leading up to the game that he hoped to put his Wisconsin wilt in the rearview against the Rams:

We missed. We went to the free throw line and didn’t make our free throws that night. We went to the plate, and sometimes you have a few strikeouts and you may have a pop fly, but hopefully the next night you come back out and you go 4-for-4.

Mission accomplished. Wilson was 19 of 26 for 229 yards and three touchdowns in the win, including a beautiful 57-yard score to Tyler Lockett that blew the game open.

#TOUCHDOWN Seahawks! @TDLockett12 turns on the jets! ⚡️#LAvsSEA #TNF https://t.co/p4IedfCvin

— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) December 16, 2016

After that TKO of a game with a …

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