Fourth-and-Wrong?

Seahawks can't distract themselves with fourth down until they get better at third

Fourth down attempts have increased in three ways:

• The number of attempts is up (from 451 times in 2014 to 766 times in 2024)

• The conversion rate is way up (from 46% to 57%)

• And fans are just as responsible for the increase in fourth downs as analytics is because fourth down attempts are more exciting (more to lose than the first three downs) and we usuall…