Penalties

Offensive penalties: 6 for 45 yards. Defensive penalties: 4 for 44 yds.

We ran 68 plays for 468 yds, that makes 6.8 yds per play. You factor in the penalties and we ran 74 plays for 423 yds, that makes 5.7 yds per play.

Penalties called on our offensive line are costing us over one yard per play.

The Rams, by comparison, only got called for two penalties the entire game. They averaged 5.6 yds per play. The fact we outgained them 463 yds to 272 doesn't mean squat if in doing so we give up so many penalties that it cancels out. Those are drive killers. Those are what put us in those 3rd and long situations.

Those five offensive linemen are truly offensive. They can't pass block and they are gutting our offensive production when we DO move the ball.

And it's been that way for a LONG time. Before 2013.

tom cable needs to be reevaluated at the end of the season. this offensive line is his creation and its not working.

Totally. Pre snap penalties! WTF is it this season? Why does the team CONSTANTLY kill its own momentum with all these totally avoidable pre-snap penalties?

Seriously. Neutral zone infraction? How often does that really happen to teams who aren't the 2014 Seahawks? And false starts? We have more false starts AT HOME this season than our opponents' playing at the CLINK.

What gives?

Good post OP, but I think yards per play only tells part of the story. Seattle still finished with almost 200 more yards than the Rams did because they averaged significantly more yards per drive.

When Seattle faced the Chargers, the Seahawks had two yards per play more than they did, but still lost the yardage battle because the Chargers did a better job of sustaining drives.

Looking at this game, I don't know how anyone can pin this loss on anything other than ST. ST had a TD for them, set up another TD, and iced the game at the end.

And even with all that, it might have gone to OT if not for the missed two pointer.