Seahawks’ Richard Sherman rips officiating crew after loss to Saints

After being on the field for 95 plays and more than 46 minutes a week ago against Arizona, the Seahawks defense was on the field for another 76 plays and more than 36 minutes in Sunday’s 25-20 loss to New Orleans. It should be a short return.

“Just in general we just need to get more shots”, Carroll said.

“I really feel bad personally about this because my team is getting a lot of penalties the last couple weeks and it’s not any one position group necessarily”. He could have played and gutted it out, but that’s not the right thing to do. The 10 carries is just what he was given, the 4.0 YPC is decent (the Saints are allowing 4.3 YPC on the season), and the touchdown was. well we just talked about what it was. And this solid defensive performance was turned in on the road in the morning without Kam Chancellor, Michael Bennett (who will tragically be out 2-3 weeks after arthroscopic knee surgery) or any strong-side linebackers.

Jimmy Graham walked out of the Seahawks’ visiting locker room without saying a word or looking anywhere but dead ahead. He then ignored a series of questions while walking more than half of the length of the field — wearing headphones — on his way out of the Superdome. Here’s Drew Brees’ reaction to the ideal 50-50 balance.

The Browns have lost 11 straight overall dating to Week 14 of last season.

Richard Sherman was not happy with the officiating Sunday. He had a relatively quiet game as well, finishing with three catches for 34 yards.

It was especially challenging during Seattle frantic, final drive trying to score the winning touchdown with no time outs in the final 1:50. They held the league’s No.2-ranked defense to almost 100 yards below its season average, while also holding the NFL’s leading passer and future Hall-of-Fame quarterback Drew Brees to below 300 yards and just one touchdown pass on the day.

The offense of the Seattle Seahawks is stumbling toward the midway point of the season. “But he’s looking to continue to look forward to build on what he’s … doing here for us…” “I love everything about him”. He certainly gave the Saints those much needed tough yards against a defense that gave up only about 85 rushing yards per game going into that contest. Wilson attempted just one pass of more than 20 yards.

Lane and the Seahawks’ bench howled in protest.

Picks or “rubs” by receivers are legal in the National Football League if the receiver is blocking within a yard of the line of scrimmage. That’s 60 yards more than the Seahawks are getting right now. And cornerback DeShawn Shead took issue with a holding call against him in the third quarter that gave the Saints a third-down conversion. Seattle was flagged 11 times vs. two for the Saints. So the clock kept running to 2:22.

“I know it’s coming, so I’m pretty optimistic about it”, Carroll said of running game, and offense in general.

“I can’t wait to get back on the practice field”. Sherman was as hopping mad over that as he was the picks on Lane.

Seattle Seahawks undrafted rookie free agent tackle George Fant made his first start at left tackle Sunday in place of an injured Bradley Sowell. “They will score when they get the ball”.

“We come out of this game with a lot of work to do”, Carroll said.

With Drew Brees continuing to operate one of the perennially elite passing games in the National Football League, the improved running game and defense have New Orleans making the kind of comprehensive progress they hoped to see heading into the second half of the season. Seattle stopped the Saints on seven of them.

Trailing 17-16, the Saints (3-4) took the lead with a 71-yard drive highlighted by Tim Hightower’s 28-yard toss sweep of left end to the Seattle 10.

In addition, the Seahawks were constantly telling officials the Saints were extending their arms to push off and create space for a receptions. Four carries went for a first down, including one 10-yard run on 1st-and-10. Until he got it.