After the last Seahawks loss, I wrote “Worried, Not Worried” about several players who had bad games and which ones could be indicative of ongoing problems moving forward if they kept their jobs. For the most part, fans shouldn’t be that worried about any of Seattle’s starters, but Josh Jobe and Rashid Shaheed were the two I felt the least sure about.
I’m not saying Jobe’s days are numbered this early into a three-year, $24 million contract, but I could see teams consistently targeting him moving forward knowing that if he gets beat early he will get beat often.
Now I am saying Jobe’s days could be numbered. On Sunday that number was “5”, but you can call him Mike Evans.
Is it fair that Jobe was put on Evans, a 6’5 receiver with over 13,000 career yards? It’s the NFL, fair has nothing to do with it.
Any time the Seahwaks face a team with a talented outside receiver, just throw it to him a bunch. Devon Witherspoon — Seattle’s $33 million man — isn’t playing coverage outside. Jobe isn’t exceptional enough in coverage to go one-on-one against a number one. Even if some passes are incomplete, most will eventually find their way past Jobe and be completed. Jobe got bodied over and over again by Evans:
It’s not going to be easy for anyone to cover Evans. But Seattle faces the 49ers again in seven weeks, and the Seahawks have plenty of other upcoming matchups to be worried about too. What’s going to happen when a team has two big outside receivers, like the Rams and the Cowboys? What’s Macdonald’s answer for Tetairoa McMillan, Malik Nabers, or Rome Odunze?
Is it Trevon Diggs? Can somebody find Diggs? Oh yeah, Evans did.
The Seahawks have to enter the solutions-oriented phase of the season now.
They can’t rely on any of their running backs
They are the most one-dimensional offense in the league based on the separation of value between Jaxon Smith-Njigba and everybody else
Jobe* just had the worst game by a Seattle cornerback in any game with Mike Macdonald.
*It’s not about how “Jobe did the best he could do.” That’s the issue actually. This is the best he can do.
John Schneider has made a trade in each of the last three seasons, bringing in Leonard Williams, Ernest Jones, and Shaheed. What’s he going to do next? Five games into the season, now it’s officially not too soon to talk trade options.