This Week in Seattle Seahawks History: Seattle’s defense smothers Mike Ditka’s Bears

This shall be a weekly article sequence all through the season wanting again on what occurred for the Seattle Seahawks 40, 30, 20, and 10 years in the past this week.

Some enjoyable video games to have a look at this week together with a house sport in opposition to the Chicago Bears in 1984 and the actual Tremendous Bowl 48 rematch in 2014.

40 Years In the past

Sunday, September 23, 1984

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Da Bears!

As a resident of Wisconsin, I can verify that this can be a fairly spot-on illustration of the Midwest!

Chuck Knox vs Mike Ditka is a neat teaching matchup, however as you’ll see, this sport was actually in regards to the Seahawks protection.

The Bears acquired the primary factors of the sport on a 3-yard passing TD from Walter Payton to Matt Suhey. Enjoyable reality, Walter Payton had 8 profession passing TDs which was 4x greater than Dan McGwire despite the fact that they each had 6 INTs! Keith Simpson had a 39-yard choose 6 later within the 1st Quarter for the Seahawks to tie the sport at 7-7. Norm Johnson added a 27-yard FG within the 2nd Quarter to present the Seahawks a 10-7 lead at halftime.

The Seahawks blew the sport open within the third Quarter with 3 TDs. Dave Krieg scored on a 3-yard dashing TD and likewise threw a 55-yard TD cross to Eric Lane. Then, Joe Nash recovered a fumble ultimately zone for a TD and the 31-7 lead. Chicago was credited with a security within the 4th Quarter when Seattle was known as for holding ultimately zone to place the rating at 31-9. The Seahawks protection scored for the third time within the sport when Terry Jackson returned an interception 62 yards, giving the ultimate rating of 38-9.

Dave Krieg was 6/16 for 146 yards, 1 TD, 0 INTs and was sacked 4 occasions. Eric Lane led the Seahawks in each dashing and receiving, carrying the ball 17 occasions for 50 yards and catching 1 cross for 55 yards and 1 TD.

Seattle’s protection compelled 6 turnovers and had 3 defensive TDs!!! Keith Simpson and Terry Jackson each had INTs returned for TDs whereas Joe Nash recovered a fumble ultimately zone for a TD. Dave Brown recorded an INT as effectively however didn’t rating…slacker. Simpson recorded 1.0 sack along with his choose. Mike Fanning, Jacob Inexperienced, and Michael Jackson every picked up 1.0 sack within the dominant defensive efficiency.

30 Years In the past

Sunday, September 18, 1994

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Neither crew was on the scoreboard till John Kasay made a 39-yard FG within the 2nd Quarter to present the Seahawks a 3-0 lead. John Carney countered with a 36-yard FG to tie the sport at 3-3, which was simply the beginning of a 24-point run for SD. Natrone Means scored from 1 yard out earlier than halftime to place the Chargers up 10-3.

Stanley Richard picked off Rick Mirer within the third Quarter and returned it 73 yards for the TD to increase SD’s result in 17-3. Stan Humphries threw a 99-yard TD cross to Tony Martin because the Chargers went up by 21 factors at 24-3. You actually received’t see an extended play than that! Chris Warren scored a too-little-too-late 11-yard dashing TD within the 4th Quarter to set the ultimate rating at 24-10.

Rick Mirer was 20/36 for 163 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT and was sacked 6 occasions. Chris Warren had 14 carries for 55 yards and 1 TD. Brian Blades had 8 catches for 66 yards.

Patrick Hunter had an INT for the second week in a row. Joe Nash and Brent Williams each had 1.0 sack.

20 Years In the past

Sunday, September 19, 2004

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Right here’s one other instructor in opposition to pupil matchup with Mike Holmgren going through off in opposition to Jon Gruden and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Josh Brown scored the one factors of the first Quarter with a 44-yard FG to present Seattle the 3-0 lead. They added to that lead shortly into the 2nd Quarter when Koren Robinson caught a 27-yard TD cross from Matt Hasselbeck to place the Seahawks up 10-0. Martin Gramatica acquired TB on the board with a 24-yard FG to make the rating 10-3 at halftime. The one factors of the 2nd half got here on one other Gramatica FG for TB of 27 yards, however it wasn’t sufficient because the Seahawks had been in a position to shut it out for the victory.

Seattle’s offense solely managed 182 yards on the day. Matt Hasselbeck was 12/26 for 147 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, and was sacked 5 occasions. Shaun Alexander had 17 carries for 45 yards. Koren Robinson was the main receiver with 66 yards and 1 TD on 4 catches.

Michael Boulware had an INT for the 2nd sport in a row and Marcus Trufant additionally picked off a cross. Grant Wistrom had 2.0 sacks. Orlando Huff, Rocky Bernard, and Antonio Cochran added 1.0 sack every.

10 Years In the past

Sunday, September 21, 2014

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Overlook in regards to the preseason matchup, we’ve acquired the REAL rematch from Tremendous Bowl 48! And it was only a bit nearer than that sport on account of a close to collapse within the 4th Quarter.

Stephen Hauschka kicked a 20-yard FG to open the scoring within the 1st Quarter which was matched by Brandon McManus’ 24-yarder to tie the sport at 3-3. Seattle opened up the lead with 2 Russell Wilson passing TDs within the 2nd Quarter, a 39-yard cross to Ricardo Lockett and a 5-yard cross to Marshawn Lynch. The Seahawks held a comparatively snug 17-3 lead at halftime.

No crew scored once more till early within the 4th Quarter when Beast Mode was tackled in his personal finish zone for a security to make the rating 17-5. Seattle’s protection held and gave their offense the ball again…for a single play as a result of Russ was picked off by Chris Harris who returned it to the SEA 32. Peyton Manning led DEN proper down the sphere and threw a 3-yard TD cross to Julius Thomas to drag DEN nearer at 17-12. Seattle drove close to midfield however needed to punt it away to the Broncos about midway by means of the 4th Quarter. DEN matriculated the ball down the sphere and was nearing the purple zone when Kam Chancellor intercepted Peyton Manning and returned it to the DEN 35. Seattle ran a while off the clock and Hauschka nailed a 28-yard FG with about 1 minute left within the sport to take the 20-12 lead. Yeah, perhaps they need to’ve tried to attain a TD as a result of after an explosive 42-yard reception by Emmanuel Sanders and a 12-yard catch by Demaryius Thomas, the Broncos had been on the SEA 26 with 28 seconds left. On the subsequent play, Manning discovered Jacob Tamme for a 26-yard TD. Demaryius Thomas caught the 2-point conversion to tie the sport at 20 with 24 seconds left. The finished 2-point attempt was challenged by the replay official and was upheld. Seattle performed for additional time as Russ kneeled the ball to ship the sport into the additional interval.

Fortunately, Seattle received the toss and hit the Broncos with a flurry of physique blows within the type of 5-7 yard features, totally on the bottom by Russ. The Seahawks had 1st and Objective on the 6 with simply over 9 minutes left in OT when Beast Mode ended the sport with a 6-yard dashing TD because the Seahawks beat the Broncos 26-20 within the extremely anticipated rematch.

Russell Wilson was 24/34 for 303 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT. Marshawn Lynch had 26 carries for 88 yards and 1 large OT TD on the bottom with one other 40 yards and 1 TD on 3 catches as well. Doug Baldwin had 4 catches for 56 yards.

Kam Chancellor had 1 INT and 1 FF. Kevin Williams had the one sack for the protection.