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.
As I discussed final week, we’ve acquired 5 video games this time with 2 coming in 1984. And sizzling rattling are they enjoyable to revisit! Let’s waste no time attending to them.
40 Years In the past
Monday, October 29, 1984
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A primetime shutout of a division rival on the street? Heck yeah!
This shall be a shorter recap however that doesn’t imply we will’t take pleasure in it! Moreover a 42-yard FG from Norm Johnson within the 2nd Quarter, every rating got here courtesy of the arm of Dave Krieg and fingers of Steve Largent. That pair linked for TDs in every of the primary three quarters of the sport. There was an 11-yarder within the 1st Quarter, a 13-yarder within the 2nd Quarter, and a 16-yarder within the third Quarter to finish the scoring on the day and provides Seattle the 24-0 shutout over the San Diego Chargers and the season sweep.
Dave Krieg was 23/29 for 282 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT. David Hughes was the main rusher with 10 carries for 36 yards. Daryl Turner paced Seattle with 92 receiving yards on 6 catches. Steve Largent made essentially the most of his 4 receptions, gaining 51 yards and snatching all 3 TDs.
Kenny Easley matched Largent on the opposite facet of the ball as he had 3 INTs! He picked off Dan Fouts twice and reeled in one other from RB Lionel James, who ended his NFL profession 0/2 with 0 TD, 1 INT, and 1 sack taken on passing makes an attempt. The Seahawks protection additionally racked up 7 (!!!!!!!) sacks. Jacob Inexperienced had 2.0 sacks whereas Mike Fanning, Paul Moyer, Joe Nash, and Fredd Younger every had 1.0 sack a bit.
Sunday, November 4, 1984
Sport Log
Two shutouts of division rivals in back-to-back video games? Is that this actual life??
You wager your backside greenback it’s, and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have been on the beatdown finish of the stick! The Seahawks protection was on one on this sport as you’ll quickly see.
The sport began off a little bit sluggish, paradoxically, with Norm Johnson’s 29-yard FG making up the one rating of the first Quarter as Seattle took the 3-0 lead. Then, the floodgates opened.
Dave Brown had a 90-yard INT return for a TD to place the Seahawks up 10-0. Subsequent, it was Keith Simpson’s flip with a 76-yard INT return for a TD to open up a 17-0 lead. Seattle’s offense acquired in on the motion with 2 Dave Krieg TDs to go up 31-0 earlier than halftime. The primary was an 11-yarder to Dan Doornink and the second was a 2-yard move to Mike Tice.
The Seahawks protection wasn’t achieved taking it to the Chiefs. Dave Brown had his 2nd INT returned for a TD within the third Quarter, however this one was solely 56 yards to place Seattle up 38-0. Kenny Easley felt a little bit overlooked, so he picked off a move within the 4th Quarter and took it 58 yards to the home for Seattle’s 4th INT return TD of the sport, giving them the 45-0 win in an absolute shellacking of Kansas Metropolis.
In case you’re questioning, sure that is the NFL file for essentially the most interceptions returned for a landing by a single workforce in a single sport. There are three different NFL data from this sport as nicely. Seattle set essentially the most yards returning interceptions in a single sport for a single workforce at 325 yards. The data for complete variety of interceptions returned for a landing in a single sport between each groups and essentially the most yards returning interceptions by each groups have been additionally set on this sport. Now, that’s some historical past!
Dave Krieg was 12/20 for 138 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT. Zachary Dixon had 9 carries for 54 yards. Daryl Turner had 3 catches for 37 yards. Dan Doornink was proper behind him with 36 yards and 1 TD on 3 catches.
We already know in regards to the 4 INTs returned for TDs, however the Seahawks truly collected 6 (!!!!!!) complete INTs on the day. Dave Brown and Terry Taylor had 2 INT every whereas Kenny Easley, Keith Simpson, Jeff Bryant, and Joe Nash all had 1 INT. As talked about earlier than, Brown had 2 TD with Easley and Simpson getting 1 TD every. For a little bit extra data, KC had 3 completely different QBs throw an INT on this sport. Invoice Kenny threw 2 INT, Todd Blackledge had 3 INT, and Sandy Osiecki was answerable for the ultimate 1 INT. Jeff Bryant and Joe Nash each picked up 1.0 sack.
30 Years In the past
Sunday, October 30, 1994
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Properly, we had our enjoyable in 1984 so right here comes the 1994 workforce to spoil the social gathering.
The Seahawks acquired on the board first after a scoreless opening body on a 9-yard speeding TD by Chris Warren. After that, the Chargers scored 35 unanswered factors. John Carney acquired them began with 2nd Quarter FGs of 25 and 39 yards. Ronnie Harmon added a 15-yard speeding TD and caught the 2-point conversion to provide SD the 14-7 lead at halftime.
Natrone Means scored the one factors of the third Quarter on a 5-yard run to place the Chargers up 21-7. Alfred Pupunu (a private Tecmo Tremendous Bowl favourite) caught an 8-yard passing TD from Gale Gilbert within the 4th Quarter to increase the SD result in 28-7. Gilbert additionally threw a 16-yard TD move to Tony Martin to open the hole even wider at 35-7. Jon Vaughn had a 93-yard kickoff return for the Seahawks they usually transformed the 2-point attempt to finish the scoring within the 35-15 loss.
Rick Mirer was 15/30 for 177 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT. Chris Warren had 17 carries for 92 yards and 1 TD. Brian Blades had 6 catches for 89 yards.
Carlton Grey had 1 INT. Bob Spitulski and Terry Picket every had 1.0 sack within the blowout loss.
20 Years In the past
Sunday, October 31, 2004
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Hey, it’s a uncommon Halloween sport. I wager there have been some fairly candy costumes in Qwest Subject. Trying on the file for the Carolina Panthers, it’s tough to think about they’d have one other sport in Seattle within the following season that might have a complete lot extra on the road. However that’s a sport for subsequent 12 months’s set of historical past articles!
Shaun Alexander scored on a 3-yard move from Matt Hasselbeck to place Seattle up 7-0 within the 1st Quarter. He added a TD on the bottom from 4 yards out within the 2nd Quarter to increase the result in 14-0. Jake Delhomme threw a 15-yard TD move to Muhsin Muhammad within the 2nd Quarter to provide us the halftime rating of 14-7.
Previous buddy John Kasay kicked a 30-yard FG for Carolina within the third Quarter to chop the Seattle result in 14-10. Then, the Seahawks scored 9 consecutive factors off the leg of Josh Brown with FGs of 27, 45, and 22 yards for the 23-10 lead. Delhomme linked with Muhammad once more on a 7-yard TD move with 1:39 left within the sport to drag the Panthers inside a rating at 23-17. Spooky! The onside kick attempt was recovered by the Seahawks and there could be no rising from the useless for Carolina on this Halloween sport!
Matt Hasselbeck was 21/30 for 301 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. Shaun Alexander went loopy with 32 carries for 195 yards and 1 TD on the bottom. He added 3 catches for 13 yards and 1 TD via the air. Darrell Jackson had 6 catches for 71 yards.
Marcus Trufant had 1 INT within the victory.
10 Years In the past
Sunday, November 2, 2014
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We’ve acquired appearances by the Chargers, Chiefs, and Oakland Raiders this week. All that’s lacking is the Denver Broncos! The winless Raiders got here to CenturyLink Subject and put up an even bigger struggle than everybody anticipated.
Future Seahawks Legend Sebastian Janikowski acquired the scoring began for Oakland with a 48-yard FG within the 1st Quarter. Future Raiders Legend Marshawn Lynch gave Seattle the lead at 7-3 with a 3-yard speeding TD. Bruce Irvin picked off Derek Carr on the following drive and returned it 35 yards for the defensive TD and the 14-3 lead. Stephen Hauschka was true from 34 yards out within the 2nd Quarter to place Seattle forward 17-3. Beast Mode scored his 2nd TD of the day on a 5-yard run simply previous to the break to provide the Seahawks a cushty 24-3 lead on the half.
Then, the third Quarter occurred.
Brice Butler recovered a blocked Jon Ryan punt in the long run zone for a Raiders particular groups rating to chop into that lead a bit at 24-10. Close to the tip of the third Quarter, Mychal Rivera caught a 1-yard TD move from Derek Carr to drag the Raiders inside a rating at 24-17. Fortunately, Hausch Cash nailed 2 4th Quarter FGs from 30 and 40 yards to place Seattle up 30-17. Carr and Rivera linked for an additional 1-yard TD move with 1:52 left within the sport and the Raiders have been inside putting distance once more at 30-24. Similar to the 2004 sport, the Seahawks recovered the onside kick and entered the victory formation.
Russell Wilson was 17/35 for 179 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT. Marshawn Lynch had 21 carries for 67 yards and a pair of TD. Beast Mode was additionally the main receiver with 5 catches for 76 yards.
Richard Sherman and Bruce Irvin each had 1 INT with Bruuuuuuce taking it to the home for a TD. Cliff Avril added 1.0 sack.
