This game sure looks out of place in prime time, doesn’t it? The Dallas Cowboys are 3-5-1, the Las Vegas Raiders are 2-7, and yet this is taking up national television time? Unfortunately, this couldn’t get flexed out since it’s not within the Monday Night Football flex window, but maybe it’ll be entertaining because the Cowboys and Raiders don’t exactly have great defenses.

We’ve been watching the Raiders fairly closely given Pete Carroll and Geno Smith are the head coach/quarterback combo in Vegas, and so far it’s been an abject failure with a sprinkling of disaster. That duo went 9-8...

Sunday the Seattle Seahawks slipped out of their perch atop the NFC West, losing 21-19 to the Los Angeles Rams as the offense turned the ball over repeatedly and failed to capitalize on opportunities to seize control of the division.

In addition, late in the game the Seahawks watched as 2025 first round pick Grey Zabel, who has started every game at left guard so far this season, went down in pain on the last play of the next to last possession of the game. Zabel was then helped into the medical tent, with limited ability to put weight on...

Last year, Michael Penix Jr made his NFL debut in garbage time against the Seattle Seahawks. This year, the former University of Washington star quarterback won’t be facing Seattle as a starter.

Following Sunday’s loss to the Carolina Panthers, it was revealed that Penix suffered a knee injury that will most likely end his season. He’d already missed a game due to a bone bruise in his left knee, and not only has he re-aggravated that injury, he’s also damaged his ACL and faces full reconstructive surgery.

Local Atlanta media is reporting a partial ACL tear for Penix, which would...

The Seattle Seahawks not only lost another game to the Los Angeles Rams and therefore the NFC West lead, they also lost their promising rookie left guard in the process.

First-round pick Grey Zabel left Seattle’s 21-19 loss in the fourth quarter after Charles Cross fell backward onto his leg during Kenneth Walker’s touchdown run. Zabel limped off the field with assistance from trainers and did not return. He was replaced by Christian Haynes, who was making his season debut after spending the season on injured reserve.

A long-term injury to Zabel would be a potentially huge blow to the...

There’s not much time to lament the loss against the Los Angeles Rams. Next week the Seattle Seahawks face the Tennessee Titans, and a win is important to recover/maintain morale. According to FanDuel Sportsbook, Seattle is favored by a whopping 12.5 points. This is the Seahawks’ biggest favorite tag this season and it’s the second most lopsided point spread across NFL Week 12 (behind the Baltimore Ravens against the New York Jets).

The 1-9 Titans have already fired their head coach and are already thinking about 2026. Despite expectations of a free sale before the trade deadline, the team has...

Rookie offensive lineman and first-round pick Grey Zabel has been playing like one of the best guards in the entire NFL. After getting his leg rolled up on late in the game against the Los Angeles Rams, it’s possible that we won’t see him for the rest of the season. Mike Macdonald didn’t have an update other than to say it was his knee and they were getting imaging done.

Recently activated Christian Haynes replaced Zabel and within a few plays was knocked back at least five yards into the backfield. Not ideal. Without Zabel, there will be a massive...

In Today’s Links: several recaps and dissertations on what was a rough and often ugly match-up between our Seattle Seahawks and their Los Angeles Rams. Yesterday’s tilt featured ups and downs, some good moments, others moments outright horrendous. The version of Sam Darnold that appeared and played for the ‘Hawks yesterday was one that most of us haven’t entirely hoped for, yet debated its precedence. Choose your own adventure, certainly. But otherwise, are we cooked? The most important game of the season for the ‘Hawks and in many ways, we came up short. Or wide. How y’all feeling today? Let...

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold had another nightmare performance against the Los Angeles Rams, tying his career high with four interceptions in a 21-19 loss. Given his struggles with the Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs against the Rams just 10 months ago, it’s about as bad a follow-up outing as he could’ve possibly had.

Darnold has had an otherwise very impressive first season with the Seahawks, but the turnovers have piled up in recent weeks to the tune of 10 over the last four games. While many of those turnovers were with comfortable leads and not even necessarily his fault,...

There’s no finality in Act 1 of a play. But at least the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams’ annual pageant now has the skeleton of a plot, complete with protagonists, villains and NPCs.

Soon we’ll know which genre the 2025 edition is. It’s usually a tragicomedy, you know this, we know this, and Act 1 did nothing to dispel such a notion. So with the sour result still on my lips, I’ll take solace in knowing the redemption arcs are set up. The revenge motives are laid bare for a month-long intermission before Act 2. If we’re lucky, we...

It may seem annoying to keep banging the drum like Todd Rundgren, but the Seattle Seahawks have a turnover problem.

After Sam Darnold’s four interceptions in a 21-19 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, the Seahawks are the NFL’s undisputed leaders in turnovers committed.

Their -7 turnover differential is tied for fourth-worst. The four teams with equal or worse turnover differentials all have losing records. Darnold fired away into coverage and threw Seattle’s 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th giveaways on the year. Seattle’s defense, as valiantly as it performed, only mustered up a fumble recovery off of Puka Nacua for...

The more things change, the more they stay the same?

This was the big opportunity for the Seattle Seahawks against the Los Angeles Rams, who have emphatically owned them throughout the Sean McVay era. Half of their six wins versus the Rams since 2017 have come against backup quarterbacks. This was the clash of the top teams in the NFC West and the Seahawks came oh so close but didn’t get the job done. There’s one player who stands out above the rest in terms of the cut of the blame pie, but it’s not all just on the Seahawks’...

The Seattle Seahawks’ four-game winning streak and high-flying offense came to a crashing halt against the Los Angeles Rams. Sam Darnold, who played like an MVP candidate all season, was the LVP in Inglewood after four interceptions, two of which led to Rams touchdowns. And yet, the Seahawks still had a chance to win the game at the end, only for Jason Myers to pull his game-winning 61-yard field goal wide right and short.

It’s a 21-19 win for the Rams that drops the Seahawks to 7-3 and out of first place in the NFC West, while the Rams are...