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Seattle
Seahawks
tight
end Will
Dissly
(89)
tries to
break a
tackle
by
Detroit
Lions
linebacker
Malcolm
Rodriguez
(44)
during
the
second
half of
an NFL
football
game,
Sunday,
Sept.
17,
2023, in
Detroit.
(AP
Photo/Duane
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Outmanned
and
outcoached,
Lions
fall to
the
Seahawks
37-31
By Dave
Hogg
apnews.com
DETROIT
- The
Detroit
Lions
knew
they had
a
potential
matchup
advantage
going
into
Sunday’s
game
with the
Seattle
Seahawks.
Detroit
had its
young
star
defensive
end,
Aidan
Hutchinson,
lining
up
against
a pair
of
backup
offensive
tackles
in Jake
Curhan
and
Stone
Forsythe.
Even if
the
Seahawks
decided
to
double-team
Hutchinson,
there
would be
plenty
of
opportunities
for the
rest of
their
front
seven to
get
after
Seattle
quarterback
Geno
Smith.
That
never
happened.
The
Lions
only
sacked
Smith
once — a
broken
play
late in
the game
— and
never
got near
him as
he drove
the
Seahawks
for the
winning
touchdown
in
overtime.
“We made
some
critical
errors,
and that
will get
you beat
every
time,”
Lions
coach
Dan
Campbell
said
after
the
37-31
loss.
Seattle’s
starting
tackles
—
Charles
Cross
and
Abraham
Lucas —
both
missed
the
game,
but
Smith
didn’t
believe
that was
going to
make
life
easy for
the
Lions
pass
rush.
“Jake
and
Stone
have
played a
lot of
games
for us,
and they
have
stepped
up big
in a
bunch of
games,”
he said.
“We knew
what
they
were
going to
do for
us, and
they
weren’t
going to
be out
there
alone.”
The
Lions
didn’t
get a
sack in
last
week’s
21-20
upset of
the
Chiefs
and
didn’t
get one
against
the
Seahawks
until
the last
play
before
the
two-minute
warning.
Smith
couldn’t
find an
open
receiver
and
didn’t
want to
throw
the ball
away
before
the
clock
hit two
minutes.
Linebacker
Alex
Anzalone
ran him
down for
a
17-yard
sack,
giving
the
Lions
good
field
position
for the
tying
field
goal,
but that
was the
only big
moment
of the
game.
“You’d
like to
believe
we could
have
applied
more
pressure,
but we
never
got them
in that
type of
game,”
Campbell
said.
“We let
them
continue
to
function
in their
offense.”
Detroit’s
front
seven
also
struggled
with
coverage,
allowing
tight
ends
Will
Dissly,
Noah
Fant and
Colby
Parkinson
to catch
nine
passes
from 10
targets
for 132
yards.
Two of
the
completions
came in
overtime,
including
a
21-yard
catch by
Parkinson
to give
Seattle
a first
down at
the
Lions
14.
“I
wanted
to see
if we
could
put some
pressure
on them
and get
them out
of their
comfort
zone,”
Campbell
said.
“But we
can’t
rush
high and
let
(Smith)
run
through
the
pocket —
if he
does
that,
you’re
covering
all day
long.”
The
Lions
are now
0-3
against
Seattle
in
Campbell’s
three
seasons,
having
allowed
an
average
of 45.3
points,
but
Seahawks
coach
Pete
Carroll
isn’t
hoping
for a
fourth
matchup.
“I have
the
ultimate
respect
for that
team,”
he said.
“They
challenge
you in
so many
ways,
especially
with
Coach
Campbell’s
play-calling.
That’s
why I’m
so happy
that we
were
able to
hang
around
and win
this
game.”
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