Seahawks Look to Secure NFC West Title

With only 1 week left in the season, the Seattle Seahawks can clinch the NFC West title and home field advantage throughout the playoffs with a win at home this Sunday.

Home field advantage would be huge for the Seahawks, who have only lost one game at Century Link field in the last 2 years. The St Louis Rams will be looking to be the spoiler of the party and end an 8 year drought in Seattle, highly unlikely.

The Seahawks are averaging roughly 138 yards per game, good enough for 4th in the league, and their secondary has held opponents to about 173 yards per game, making the Legion of Boom the greediest backfield in the NFL. The Rams are no slouch on the defensive end either, they're only allowing just over 102 yards per game on the ground and have had the best run defense in the league since week 10. That should make Seahawk fans a little nervous after the way Seattle played against another strong run defense last week.

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You can be looking forward to Seattle's defense to continue their dominance this upcoming Sunday against St Louis' backup QB Kellen Clemens. Clemens is only averaging a little over 187 yards per game since being named the starter 8 weeks ago in these two teams first meeting of the season. Clemens was held to 158 yards and 2 INT's in that first game. The running game got going for the Rams in that one, gaining 200 total yards on the ground with Zac Stacy earning 134 of those on 26 carries. Unfortunately for the Rams that wasn't enough to get a win against the Seahawks.

The Rams were held to field goals only in that first meeting with the Seahawks defense holding it down on their side of the field and were only backed into their own 20 on the final possession of the game. The closest field goal was a 27-yarder. When the Rams offense finally got inside the Seahawks redzone on their last possession of the game they failed to convert on a final 4th-and-1 attempt, with Seattle's defense strapping down and sealing the win 14-9.

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The Rams were able to disrupt the shot-handed offensive line of Seattle and sack QB Russell Wilson a season high 7 times. Seattle's offensive line is back to full health as long as OT Russell Okung suits up Sunday, but he has been practicing this week and is looking good to go for Sunday according to ESPN. The Rams DE Robert Quinn and Chris Long each had 3 sacks in that first meeting, and Quinn is currently leading the entire NFL earning his 18th sack in last week's win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The offensive line troubles also lead to a weak game by RB Marshawn Lynch who was only able to run for 23 yards on 8 carries. Lynch has struggled recently only averaging 57.8 yards per game in his last 5 games, but the low rush numbers have not kept him out of the endzone,breaking the goal line 13 times this season (11 rush,2 rec).

QB Russell Wilson has been great all season long and is currently the all-time most winning QB in his first 2 seasons, overall record 22-9, and should be coming into this game with a lot of focus after the horrible show the offense displayed the last time they took the field.

As long as Wilson's line holds up we can expect to see this team conduct business as usual this Sunday.

Prediction:

SEA over STL 24-18

Seahawks on top of the world!

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