All-22: All-11 Seahawks sacks against the New York Giants

What to see in the All-22 of the Seahawks 11 sacks against the Giants: Seaside Joe 1685

My mama always told me to never turn down 11 sacks, so I won’t start now, but if I was the Giants offensive line coach I would want a recount…if not a re-ally long vacation. I have a feeling he (Bobby Johnson) is going to get one.

The Seahawks tied a franchise record by totaling 11 sacks in Week 4 against the New York Giants but for all the intents and all the purposes that we care about for pressuring the quarterback, Seattle had 9 sacks against the Giants. That’s still a lot!

If you don’t want to take my word for it, that’s why I’m sharing all 11 sacks from the All-22 footage of last Monday’s game against the Giants…in today’s bonus article for Regular Joes.

Now, Seaside Joe would be the last person to give back sacks, including two by Devon Witherspoon (one of which was really a tackle for a loss on a receiver) and two by Jordyn Brooks (one of which was touching the quarterback as he ran out of bounds), but it would go against all of my principles to ignore what’s most important of all: Context.

Context.

No assistant in the NFL was probably given a worse assignment this season than Bobby Johnson as the offensive line coach and those challenges were evident against Seattle:

-Left tackle Andrew Thomas was replaced by 2022 third round pick Josh Ezeudu, currently ranked by PFF as 65th out of 65 tackles. Ezeudu was blamed for three of the Seahawks’ 11 sacks and four pressures, as will be very evident below.

-Right guard Marcus McKethan, a fifth round pick in 2022, was also blamed for four pressures, plus one sack allowed. He’s ranked 65th out of 70 guards. Here’s one where McKethan helped Bobby Wagner finish off Daniel Jones:

Marcus McKethan might be the Seahawks second-best defensive tackle right now.

-Right tackle Evan Neal, the 7th overall pick in 2022 but not a giant fan of Giants fans, is ranked 64th out of 65 tackles, only ahead of his teammate.

-Center John Michael Schmitz left the game after 11 snaps, forcing Ben Bredeson to shift from guard to center, his first career game at the position and he had only even ever started 12 games in total. Bredeson had only practiced center in spring and summer in case of an emergency. He’s ranked 30th out of 31 centers.

-This put Shane Lemieux and then later former Seahawk Mark Glowinski into the game. Both guards were considered huge problems for New York going into the game but somehow Glowinski could be one of their best options out of this unit: He is ranked 55th out of 70 guards.

Of course, none of these players would look as bad if the Seattle Seahawks did not take advantage of their opportunity in Week 4—and also the Seahawks wouldn’t have gotten 11 sacks if Daniel Jones didn’t run into at least four sacks all by himself.

Any team that gets 11 sacks in four quarters is going to need some version of a perfect storm—bad offensive line, bad quarterback, injuries, statistical quirks, and also the ability of the defense to consistently execute at a high level—and that’s what the Seahawks got in Week 4 against the Giants. All I’m adding is the context.

And the footage.

#ButFirst, some really quick thoughts on what I observed in re-watching the game through all-22:

-Devon Witherspoon is really good

-Getting back Jamal Adams looks like a big deal, even though he only played nine snaps, and Julian Love was all over the field too

-It feels like it’s been so long that I basically forgot that Drew Lock played a couple of series in this and he was given a lot of responsibility during his short stint in the game

-My favorite part of the season so far on offense is Seattle’s tight ends and how they’re used

-Dre’Mont Jones didn’t get a sack but had a better game than some of the players who had one, maybe even some who had two

-Daniel Jones wasn’t nearly as bad as I remembered; he’s not good, but he did more with what he had than a lot of quarterbacks could have done…this game was very close to being 14-10 at the end of the third quarter

-Ken Walker and Zach Charbonnet…it’s only going to get better as the season goes on

-Seahawks killed with a red zone penalty by Colby Parkinson…brings back bad memories of Damien Lewis in the wild card game

-Jake Curhan against Kayvon Thibodeaux was the hardest part to watch

Those are the quick thoughts, now for the quick clips: All 11 sacks by the Seahawks against the Giants. Join Regular Joes or Super Joes and you’ll get access to the rest of this article and over 100 more per year.