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Offensive Personnel Groupings

Including kneel-downs, but excluding penalties, the Seattle Seahawks ran 51 offensive plays out of five personnel groupings on Sunday.

Seahawks Passing on Sunday (By Personnel Grouping)

- Hasselbeck was 12-of-18 for 218 yards with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions on 1^st down, but just 2-for-7 for 15 yards with a sack/fumble on 3^rd down.

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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files on the Seahawks here each week. We welcome him to Seahawks Insider.

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Offensive Personnel Groupings

Excluding penalties, the Seattle Seahawks ran 61 offensive plays out of three personnel groupings on Sunday.

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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files on the Seahawks here each week. We welcome him to Seahawks Insider.

Brian McIntyre blogs daily at Mac’s Football Blog. You can follow Brian on Twitter, and if you’d like to e-mail him, you can always do so by clicking here.

Offensive Personnel Groupings

Including kneel-downs, and excluding penalties, the Seattle Seahawks ran 73 offensive plays out of six personnel groupings on Sunday.

The four-tight end personnel grouping was a first, and was used on goal-line plays in the first and fourth quarters. On each of the five plays, Seattle had two tight ends on the right side of the line, with John Carlson lined up as a fullback.
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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files on the Seahawks here each week. We welcome him to Seahawks Insider.

Brian McIntyre blogs daily at Mac’s Football Blog. You can follow Brian on Twitter, and if you’d like to e-mail him, you can always do so by clicking here.

Seahawks offensive plays by personnel grouping

Excluding the fake field goal, the Seahawks have had an “Ace” backfield (one-back) for 73.1% of their 469 offensive plays this season.

Another by-product of not having a true fullback on the 53-man roster is the increase in 2+ tight end personnel groupings. After back-to-back seasons of using two-tight end sets on less than 16% of their offensive snaps, the Seahawks have had two-tight ends on 40.1% of the 469 offensive plays this season.

The Seahawks have had at least three wide receivers on the field for 45% of their offensive plays.

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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files on the Seahawks here each week. We welcome him to Seahawks Insider.

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Offensive Personnel Groupings

Excluding penalties, the Seattle Seahawks ran a season-low 37 offensive plays out of four personnel groupings on Sunday.

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Here, Brian unearths a few statistical nuggets with Kentwan Balmer and Junior Siavii moving into the starting defensive rotation for Seattle on Sunday against the N.Y. Giants.

Red Bryant’s torn MCL and Colin Cole’s ankle injury are major blows to a Seattle Seahawks defense that, up until recently, had been doing well against the run. Those injuries also will thrust a pair of training camp roster additions into starting roles in Seattle’s base defense as the New York Giants and their No.4-ranked rushing attack visit Qwest Field this Sunday.

Former San Francisco 49ers first-round pick Kentwan Balmer, acquired for a 2011 sixth-round pick in the middle of training camp, replaces Bryant as the starting “5” technique end. Junior Siavii, signed as a free agent on September 6 after he was released by the Dallas Cowboys, is now the interim starter at Cole’s nose tackle spot.

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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files on the Seahawks here each week. We welcome him to Seahawks Insider.

Brian McIntyre blogs daily at Mac’s Football Blog. You can follow Brian on Twitter, and if you’d like to e-mail him, you can always do so by clicking here.

Offensive Personnel Grouping

Excluding penalties, the Seattle Seahawks ran 59 offensive plays out of four personnel groupings on Sunday.

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