Seattle vs. Denver Preview: Why the Seahawks Are Slight Favorites

What do you like in tonight's ballgame and why? I heard you in the previous segment. You were on Seattle, and I'm with you there. Sam Darnold for his career, over his last nine games at least, 6-1 against the spread following a loss. And the bounce back's there. I heard the sound you had going there where he's going to value the ball and he's preaching this stuff. He's plus money right now to not throw an interception, but you're missing the corners for Denver right now. You've got Moss is questionable. Sertan's already out. To me, that just screams Jackson Smith and Jigba for like a dozen targets, if not more. The running game behind Wilson is good enough. And right now, the defense is good enough. Bo Nix isn't playing well. I don't think this is going to be an overly exciting game as far as like shootout, 35-28 kind of game. But I do think Seattle controls this kind of from start to finish. Something like 27-17 makes sense to me. No question. Do you think one of the issues has been maybe the inconsistency in that run game for Seattle out of the gate so far because you know last year they were able to get it going here with that dual threat that they have with those two running backs they had now all of a sudden and not having Clay Kubiak it's kind of wobbled a little bit right so has that been a factor and when you see some of these numbers now seattle last year was blowing people's doors off now all of a sudden you don't have that play caller and so has that been an impact on this offense yeah i certainly think so it's funny how easy the game of football can be when you hold all the cards and all the leverage and everything like that you're playing with the lead and you get to dictate tempo but these last few games for Seattle that hasn't been the case you're putting a lot of pressure on the defense which I think is fine this defense is about as good as it gets but yeah the run game you're talking multiple injuries here Emmanuel Wilson is probably on the low end of average when it comes to running backs and right now he's all they've got because George Helani's fumbling the ball in their own end zone and losing the game that way so there's there's certainly a push and pull situation there but Sam Darnold point blank has to be better if he doesn't want to be labeled as a game manager that just gets this team to the finish line he's got to be able to win games not just not lose them kyle do you think the inconsistency in Denver has been with Davis Webb and now all of a sudden they're going back to Sean Payton or do you think Bo Nix is kind of coming back to the pack now you know sometimes you'll get a quarterback that is a shooting star and sometimes guys continue to get better and better and better remember something he's an older quarterback too I'm not saying that we're all of a sudden seeing the backside of Bo Nix's career here but people look like they're catching up with him a little bit he's over explaining everything right now and this is kind of who he is right yeah I think both things both things can be true at least at some level the play caller situation that's not fun going back and forth and you've got a head coach slash play caller and he's watching over the shoulder then you bring in Jaylen Waddle it's like oh yeah we we hosted the AFC championship game a year ago and now we're going to bring in an alpha receiver and kind of tell you to restructure the offense i don't trust the run game the defense hasn't been as reliable but as it stands we're through five weeks they're five and three and two they've got losses to the Chiefs and 49ers let's not act like this team's the Chargers or anything they just haven't looked great but they're getting the results right now and that's kind of a good teams do right they win when they don't have their best and then they're they're tough to be at the highest levels when they do have their best this is an interesting game for me tonight i think the winner assuming it looks okay the winner is gonna kind of emerge with a lot of confidence and the loser is gonna have more questions than answers