Seahawks fans, wherever you may be, welcome back for another edition to the Seahawks Playbook Podcast. This week, Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers breakdown the Bill's loss and look ahead to an NFC West showdown with the Rams. What's wrong with the defense? What's wrong with the coaching? What's wrong??? We demand answers! That's been the week so far if you're inclined to be on social media and follow the team this week. So we dive right in to all of it this week as Bill and Keith talk Seahawks football.

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Seattle Seahawks fans, where ever you may be, welcome back to the latest edition of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast! Your Host's Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers are here to talk Seahawks football, so thanks for joining us! Up this week: The Seahawks dominated the 49ers at home to breeze to a commanding 37-27 win to position the Seahawks at 6-1 on the year, 1st place in the NFC West Division as well as the #1 seed in the NFC. The Seahawks' offense was able to do it's usual thing against a 49er defense that came into the game with a top 5 DVOA ranking in terms of both points allowed and yards given up. Didn't matter as Russell Wilson hung 4 touchdowns on them and D.K. Metcalf had a career day totaling 12 receptions on 15 targets for 161 yards and a pair of touchdowns. The big news however was the way the defense came to play on the day. They were able to come out agressive and limit the 49ers on offense to 117 yards through the first 3 quarters of this game. Their first truly dominate performance of the season. Although Nick Mullens did come in for lots of garbage time yards and some points, the game was out of reach and Seattle remained firmly in control.

Can the Seattle defense maintain this level of performance against the Buffalo Bills this coming weekend....and beyond? That remains to be seen. However, Seattle is getting a handful of quality reinforcements onto the defense that looks to match the offense in the way it can dictate terms to opponents. Damon Harrison and Carlos Dunlap look to make their Seahawks debuts this weekend. In addition, Rasheem Green, Jamal Adams, Benson Mayowa and Ugo Amadi look to return from injury as well. On offense, Seattle hopes to return Chris Carson into the fold after missing a week with a foot sprain.

All things considered, the Seahawks stand at 6-1 and appear to be getting as healthy and talented as they have been for the entire season, right at the right time as Seattle faces 3 quality opponents in the next 3 weeks. Buffalo, the Rams and a rematch against the Cardinals at home. Exciting stuff indeed!

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Welcome back to the latest edition of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast. Seahawks fans, join your hosts Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers as we talk Seahawks football! Up this week, we take a look at what went right and what went wrong in our first NFC West match up of the 2020 season vs the Arizona Cardinals. The Seahawks came up just short in overtime in a game that saw tons of offense from both teams, and little in the way of defense. In the end, mental errors and turnovers were the deciding factors in this one. Of course, that's in addition to the lack of pass rush and poor pass defense. Those factors seem to be a given at this point, seven weeks into what is otherwise a fabulous 5-1 campaign so far.

Make sure you return next week as Bill and Keith are back again to breakdown the San Fransisco 49er game as well as give you a first look preview of a showdown in Buffalo against the Bills.

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Seattle Seahawks fans, where ever you may be, welcome to the Seahawks Playbook Podcast. Join your hosts Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers as we talk Seahawks football! Up this week, We grade the offense and the defense as well as a few of the players as we are 1/3 of the way through the season. What's going great? (I'm sure you can guess!) What's going poorly? What can we get back on track? This team, with a couple of tweaks, can have a really special year and a very deep run in the playoffs.

Up this week are the 4-2 Arizona Cardinals. They added to both sides of the ball this season, but most of their team improvement has come on the defensive side of the ball. This match up will be key this season as the Seahawks will face each NFC West rival twice. The Seahawks acquired Jamal Adams on their defense, and one of the main reasons why, is to slow down quarterbacks just like Kyler Murray. Murray leads all NFL QB's this season in rushing. He has 51 rushes for 365 yards and 6 TD's through 6 weeks. Hopefully Seattle took the bye week to push the reset button on its defense and we can see some improvement on getting off the field on 3rd downs more frequently to get the ball back into the hands of Russell Wilson.

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Seahawks fans wherever you may be, welcome back to the latest edition of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast. Hey Y'all, we're 5-0!! First time in franchise history to reach that mark. Seahawks scored on another Russell Wilson game winning drive with under two minutes to play from 94 yards out to close out the game. Before Seattle got the ball back for that drive, the Vikings had a win probability percentage of 96.9%, but Mike Zimmer chose to go for it on 4th down, 4th and inches from the 6 yard-line and Seattle held to force a turn over on downs. Wilson completed two 4th down conversions of his own to D.K. Metcalf, including the game winning touchdown play and Seattle escapes with the win to move to 5-0.

Seattle has reached its Bye Week this week. That gives the team time to access where they are at in all phases of the game, as well as bring back some players that have been sidelined for various injuries. Seattle should emerge after this week and before the Arizona Cardinals game as healthy as they have been all season.

Make sure you come back next week as Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers will preview the Cardinals game as well as take a peak ahead to the remaining schedule. This year is setting up to be very special. Don't miss any episodes of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast! Make sure you take a moment to subscribe to the show on your favorite listening platform and get the latest episode right in your podcast feed.

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Seahawks fans wherever you may be, welcome back to another edition of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast! The Seahawks picked up the 4th win in as many tries this season as the defeated the Miami Dolphins on the road by a score of 31 to 23. Seattle was able to hold the Dolphins to 5 field goals and a single touchdown with an improved defensive performance, even while the offense gave up a couple of red zone opportunities, they still managed to put up over 30 points for the 4th straight game. Join Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers as we break down the game and the play of individual players and we move forward inside the show as we take a look at the currently struggling Minnesota Vikings, who are now 1-3 after a victory over the Carolina Panthers. Seattle will face the Vikings at Century Link Field, as they play in prime time once again on Sunday Night Football. Seattle looks to move to 5-0 for the first time in franchise history before its Bye Week.

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Seahawks fans, welcome back to another edition of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast. Join your hosts Keith Myers and Bill Alvstad as we discuss this weeks news and notes, the great win against the Cowboys and our upcoming trip to the beach (we wish) as the Seahawks travel to Miami to take on the Dolphins.

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Welcome back to the 191st edition of the Seahawks Playbook Podcast! Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers are as excited as ever to be joining you again this week to talk Seahawks football! In this weeks show we go over the ups and downs of the win vs the New England Patriots in Seattle. Seattle pulled out the 35-30 victory after they kept Cam Newton from scoring in the last remaining seconds of the game from just 1-yard out. The win moves the Seahawks to 2-0 and positions them as one of the best teams in the NFL. Russell Wilson is playing some of the best football of his football career and looks to be leading this team to a special season. It does remain clear that the defense remains far behind the offense at this point. The hope is this: Can the defense come together just enough this season to allow Russell Wilson to have a chance at getting the team to another Super Bowl? The window is clearly wide open this season so hang on!

Next up to face off against the Seahawks are the Dallas Cowboys. Make sure you come back next week as Bill and Keith breakdown the game as well as look ahead to preview the Seahawks vs Dolphins game coming the first week of October.

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Seahawks fans, welcome in to the Seahawks Playbook Podcast! Your weekly Seahawks show featuring Hosts Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers as we get you all caught up with team news and talk Seahawks football. Up this week, we finally played actual honest to goodness professional football. Not only did we play, we played extremely well in the first game of the season vs the Atlanta Falcons, winning handily by a score of 38 to 25. The defense had a solid outing highlighted by the exemplary play of new Seahawks Safety, Jamal Adams. The real damage was done on the offense, led by all-pro, and the NFL's Offensive Player of the Week, Russell Wilson, who had one of his most efficient and best games as a pro. Wilson completed 31/35 passes for 322 yards, 4 TD's and a passer rating of 143.1. Wilson became just the second quarterback in league history to throw at least 35 passes, complete at least 30 of those, have over 300 yards and have at least 4 touchdowns. (Drew Brees, 2011 vs Ind.)

It was a great way to kick off the 2020 season and Bill and Keith recap the highlights. We also preview week two's contest against the New England Patriots. This contest features the two oldest, and best coaches in the league in Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll. The combined age of the two coaches is 137 years and 162 days. The oldest combined age for any coached game in NFL history! Crazy. The game will also feature a contest between Russell Wilson and Cam Newton, whom the Patriots signed this off-season to take over the QB spot vacated by Tom Brady. New England likes to feature the ground game, with Cam Newton rushing 15 times in the first week. Will Seattle opt to run the ball more aggressively this week and stay away from the strength of the Patriots roster, their secondary? Time will tell, but Both Keith and Bill have the Seahawks taking this home opener in Seattle.

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Seahawks fans, welcome back to the Seahawks Playbook Podcast. In this week's show, Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers examine the completed 53-man roster as we are finally ready to go, before the regular season opener against the Atlanta Falcons this coming Sunday. It truly seems like forever since any of us have seen football actually being played by two opposing teams. But we made it! And thank you for sticking with us this entire off-season. It's been the most challenging off-season in the 44 year history of the franchise. It's been difficult for everyone on a whole host of Non-football related issues. The players and coaches have worked so hard to get to this moment, so we are grateful to be able to get this thing going, on time and with a full schedule.

Next week don't forget to join us for a full recap show as well as a preview of the 2nd week showdown against the New England Patriots and new Quarterback, Cam Newton.

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