Seattle Seahawks Can Ride Shutdown Defense to Repeat as Champions

December 9, 2014   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

Not long ago something wasn't quite right with the Seattle Seahawks defense. As a unit the defense was merely great, and for the Seahawks great is normal.
By their standards the Seahawks defense was plain. Of course, it was still among the league's best defenses. But in 2013 it established an entirely new tier of excellence, and even the slightest fall from that perch felt dramatic.
But you may now crawl from your deep underground bunker and embrace the light of day again. The planet has resumed its proper rotational spin, and the Seahawks defense is delivering loud, jaw-realigning mouth punches, quickly getting close to one-punch Mickey territory (link NSFW).
This new Seahawks defense is the old Seahawks defense. Returned from a brief, mostly health-related hiatus, the Seahawks defense we saw Sunday during a dismantling of the Philadelphia Eagles is the kind of defense that wins a championship.
Or in Seattle's case, defends one.
Before we dive deeper into that...

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