OPINION: Seahawks’ legion becomes boomless

Nick Hansen, Contributing Writer

After last week’s victory over the San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks are a very unforeseeable 3-4. This pathetic record, after back-to-back Superbowl appearances, is due to a lack of offensive production and an un-clutch Legion of Boom defense.

The Seahawks have only managed to beat, two teams that were winless at the time;, the  Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions. Their only other win is against the barely functioning San Francisco 49ers.

Against the Bears, the Seahawks managed just one special teams touchdown, one offensive touchdown, and a flurry of field goals, against a team with a terrible defense.

The 12’s cheered their team into next week’s game against the winless Lions, thinking that their beloved Kam Chancellor, bringer of the boom had returned.

The Seahawks should have lost that game against the Lions. Seattle forgot to bring their offense to the game, and only managed a dismal 13 points.

During the Lions last possession, future Hall of Famer, Calvin Johnson, had the ball punched out of his had on the one-yard line, in an amazing team play by star safeties Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor.

While the ball was bouncing in the endzone, linebacker K.J. Wright batted the ball illegally out of bounds, in hopes to force a touchback to give Seattle the ball and the win.

This play should have resulted in the Lions having possession of the ball on the one-yard line and a first down. Seattle beat a winless team due to an officiating mistake.

Seattle was 3-3 last season and made the Superbowl, so things were looking bright when the Seahawks flew into Cincinnati to face the Bengals and their historically un-clutch quarterback Andy Dalton.

The Seahawks entered the fourth quarter of the game with a 17-point lead and blew it! They allowed the Bengals to tie the game, forcing overtime and eventually kicking a game-winning field goal.

Okay, so now back to Century Link field, where the Seahawks have only lost one game in the past three years. Surprisingly, both the Seahawks and Panthers decided to bring the offense.

The Seahawks entered the fourth quarter leading 20-14 and managed another field goal and that was it. The Panthers on the other hand, were able to score two touchdowns, to make the score 27-23, with time expiring, leaving Seattle almost no time to score.

The most shocking part about this fourth quarter loss for the Seahawks, is on the last play Greg Olsen was able to run right through the zone defense of Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas. The lockdown, unbeatable defensive of the Seahawks choked again.

So far the only real bright side of the Seattle season was proving that they’re better than their dysfunctional archrivals, the San Fransico 49ers.

The Seahawks were able to hold the 49ers to 3 points, but then again is it really that hard to keep the declining Kaepernick in check along with their bipolar run game?

No not really.

If you can stop the 49ers from running the ball, you basically win the game, and the Seahawks did just that.

Congrats on your first win against a team without a zero in the win column!

Before the 12’s take to the streets with their newly inspired Twitter Fingers, just remember the Seahawks choked against the Rams in the fourth, they choked against the Packers, they choked against the Bengals and choked against the Panthers.

For the remainder of the season the Legion of Boom should now come with a warning sticker, because clearly they’re a choking hazard this season. It’s almost time to hit the panic button 12’s, because the Seahawks aren’t making the post-season if this defensive play continues.

‘SEA’ You at the draft, Hawks.