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January 11, 2017



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NFL Wild-Card Playoffs: Seahawks overpower Lions as Thomas Rawls runs wild
At this point, traveling to Seattle during the playoffs is a suicide mission. The Seahawks just don’t lose.
Their 26-6 win over the Lions on Saturday night marked the Seahawks’ 10th straight postseason win at home. But in order to journey deeper into the playoffs, the Seahawks will need to win away from Seattle — in Atlanta — next weekend. That’s a story for another day, though.
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The story of Saturday was how the Seahawks — a team that looked vulnerable over the final six week of the season — rediscovered their running game.
The Seahawks rebounded from Marshawn Lynch by using 18 different players to run the ball in the regular season (seriously). Over the course of the 16-game season, the Seahawks averaged 3.9 yards per carry.
Against the Lions, the Seahawks averaged 4.7 yards per carry.
Thomas Rawls powered the Seahawks offense. In the first half alone, Rawls racked up 107 yards on 15 carries, which means he posted a season-high in yards during the second quarter. The holes were there for him and Rawls repeatedly rumbled through arm tackles, so the Seahawks handed him the ball over and over again.
He racked up 161 yards on 27 carries, while Russell Wilson was reduced to the role of a game-manager and, for a brief moment, lead blocker.
As ESPN Stats & Info pointed out, Rawls rushed for 56 yards in his previous three games — combined. According to the NFL’s research group, Rawls became the first player with more than 150 rushing yards in a playoff game since Marshawn Lynch’s 157-yard outing against the Packers in the 2014 NFC title game. And, oh yeah, Rawls ended up setting a Seahawks franchise record.
The Seahawks’ win wasn’t overly impressive considering they thoroughly outplayed the Lions, but still let them hang around, only pulling away with eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, but it did reveal a scary and effective formula that they can potentially ride all the way Houston. If the Seahawks can run the ball and play the kind of defense that they did Saturday night — they held the Lions to 4.6 yards per play — there’s no reason why they can’t beat a Dallas or Atlanta, not when everything is going their way.
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