Seattle – The offensive of the first Seattle Seahawks team could not have asked for a better demonstration on Friday evening in Lumen Field, both in terms of schemes and success rate.
During the first Seattle game of the fray in a pre-season fight with the Chiefs of Kansas City, the ball carrier Zach Charbonnet crossed a hole created by the right side of his offensive line and picked up 13 yards. The following nine games were all that the Seahawks want this offense to be under the new Kubiak: Under-Center coordinator takes place with the offensive line plowing a path; Play-Action Bootlegs with wide passing sensors in space; Rapid decisions of the quarterrier Sam Darnold when they operated from a hunting rifle; and a physical presence at the front in the red zone.
The opening of the opening reader included a coal that crossed another gaping hole, this time with the help of the left platform Josh Jones and the left -wing guardian Gray Zabel. CHARBONNET remained intact for 15 meters in the goal area. The touchdown crowned a series of 10 games and 81 yards and marked the end of the departure time together for the night. The Seahawks hope that it was also the start of a new physical offense in the 2nd year of the Mike Macdonald era.
Zach just led his truck through 😤 pic.twitter.com/iuttt9jv09
– Seattle Seahawks (@seahawks) August 16, 2025
Seattle’s starting offensive line reflected what we have seen in practice since the finger surgery of Charles Cross and the back injury of Oluwatimi: from left to right, Jones, Zabel, Jalen Sunday, Anthony Bradford and Abe Lucas. Besides Cross and Oluwatimi, the only offensive starter to rest on Friday evening was the Ken Walker III ball carrier, who faces a foot problem.
Although the chiefs did not play their high -end starters on defense – like Chris Jones, Nick Bolton and Trent McDuffie – it was always important for the offensive led by Darnold to execute at a high level. And the racing game was always going to be the starting point when assessing their performance.
They went with flying colors, even when adapting the absence of the best defensive beginners of Kansas City.
“In attack, this is the way you script it,” said Macdonald, whose team won 33-16.
Charbonnet had races of 13, 4, 7, 6 and 15 yards. It is 45 yards and 9 per attempt with a success rate of 80% (all statistics provided by Trumedia, unless otherwise indicated). Darnold was under the center for all the games except two on the reader and four of the five carbon points. The only fate of the hunting rifle was a gain of 6 yards on the perimeter, because the ball carrier received a solid frontal blockage from Bradford, Lucas, the winger tight AJ Barner and the Cooper Kupp receiver.
Darnold was a perfect passage of 4 for 4 for 34 yards. The second and the 6th, he took a hitching of a shotgun, passed his readings in a clean pocket and found Barner below for 5 meters. In the second and 3, he simulated a transfer under the penny at Charbonnet and had a lot of room to intervene before hitting Jaxon Smith-Mnmba in the apartment for 7 meters. Two games later, another false under-center put Darnold on the movement while rolling on the left, where he found a large open Robbie for 13 yards.
The following game was … another game boot, this time on the right. Again, its target, the tight recruit Elijah Arroyo, was open below for 9 yards. The Touché de Charbonnet race followed.
“Really sharp,” said Macdonald about Darnold. “I’m sure he wanted to continue, but he showed what he could do. Really an excellent journey. “
The Darnold unit was on average 8.1 yards per game, with Kubiak based on the basics of its system – the perimeter runs with game bootlegs – to plan easy launches open for the quarter. The group had no negative game. Charbonnet had room to run, that the players follow this offseason like Jones, Zabel, Ouzts and Eric Saubert or return players like Bradford and Lucas. Darnold has never been put under pressure. It is a flawless start, well considered.
“It is really encouraging,” said Julian Love of security about the departure of Seattle, which included the defense of the first team which stopped the fourth of Kansas City to end the possession of the Chiefs. “I don’t think you can better script it in attack in terms of flows of how we want to play. We want to run the ball, work on the game, throw up when we have to throw, keep the ball, maintain the clock. ”
Darnold, Smith-Njigba and Kupp were completed for the night after the opening, but the offensive line remained for the rescue quarter, Drew Lock, which started with the Ballon carrier George Holani flying through a massive hole along the left side of the line for a gain of 30 yards. Saubert and Barner put the edge, Jones and Zabel eliminated the front defensive tackle with a combined block and Sunday cut the nose plate. Free security did not have the hand on Holani until the ball carrier is 20 meters on the ground.
The next four Holani races have experienced 6, 6, 4 and 3 yards, the latter moving the channels in third and 2. The second -year ball carrier – which is ahead of the recruit of seventh round Damien Martinez in rotation – had 49 yards out of 9.8 yards by attempt with a success rate of 80%. When he left the match, Martinez immediately snatched a postponement of 19 yards. The reader ended with a 12 -yarn wallpaper touch from Lock to Jake Bobo.
Seattle runners had 11 races for 113 yards and a touch in the first quarter behind the starting offensive line. This programming only played two snaps in the second quarter: a 1 rod race per Martinez and Bobo Pass Touchdown. The size of the sample is still small, and it is only the pre-season, but the first yields were excellent.
“We had (174 yards on the ground) half, and whenever you can do, it is an incredible feeling,” said Saubert. “It’s cool because guys trust the system, who really get on it, and it looks great. I hope we can continue to build and still improve what we are already doing.”
Seattle beginners are unlikely to play in the pre-season final against Green Bay packers, which makes this dress rehearsal even more important. It is useful to see all the things that Kubiak and its staff highlighted in meetings and training sessions come to life in a game before the start of the regular season.
“When you see the work you put in conclusion, he clicks,” said Saubert, 31, who has already played in this program. “You know what it is supposed to look like. Now, we know what it looks like when we do it. It’s cool to feel this feeling in pre-season so that we can reproduce it so that the matches come in the regular season.”
Here are some additional notes from the second pre-season match of Seattle.
1 and 1 The attack by Gardner Minshew of Kansas City has moved the ball against the departure defense of Seattle, although without Leonard Williams, Jarran Reed, Demarcus Lawrence and Tyrice Knight on the field.
Minshew converted into third and 2 with a pass to an Isiah Pacheco Large open in the apartment for 22 yards (there was poor pre-SNAP communication). Minshew then converted the third and-3 with a pass of 14 yards in the middle of the Tyquan Thornton recipient. The defense settled down and closed the series in the red zone: Riq Wooolen forced an incomplete in second position, Coby Bryant dropped Juju Smith-Schuster for a gain of 3 yards in third and 4, then I love the Ballon Strawer Carrier Carson Steele without gain in fourth and 1 on the line of 15 yards.
Julian Love Farge the game to force a turnover on Downs 😤
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Seattle has achieved its goal of keeping a donut on the dashboard, but Love and Macdonald deplored these third conversions.
“Defensively, I thought we would have played a little better,” said Macdonald.
2 Recruit Tory Horton had a grip of 12 yards with 3:33 to play in the second quarter and tried clumsily out of the limits. He was closed for the rest of the match with an ankle injury, according to Macdonald, who said the receiver could have returned the game if necessary. Rather, the coach chose to hold Horton.
3 and 3 Bobo connected to Lock for a second hit when he beat the Joshua Williams corner half on a fade to finish the first half. This play showed everything we saw of the third year in practice: a good leg game out of the fray, athletics to hang the ball at its highest point and a great spatial conscience near the touchline.
He did it. AGAIN. 😤 pic.twitter.com/mzxjis0fyb
– Seattle Seahawks (@seahawks) August 16, 2025
Bobo also did something that we do not see very often: turning a shift in 20 meters (he was probably there because of Horton’s injury). It was so rare that it drew everyone’s attention to the sidelines.
“He catch the screen for the touch was exciting, (and) obviously the melted ball, it’s Bobo 101,” said Love. “But you see it there to catch clearance boots? When we saw this, this is when the touchline has probably become the craziest.”
4 These three guys continue to help themselves in the training camp and the pre-season: the defensive platform Brandon Pili, which dropped the balloon carrier Elijah Mitchell for security in the second trimester; The recipient Dareke Young, recipient of three passes for a summit of 52 yards; And the defensive winger Jared Ivey, who really jumped like a pass rusher when he is in alignment. Young and Pili seem to be on the right track to make the team, and that would not surprise if Ivey, a signatory of the free agent recruit, also sneaks there.
(Photo: Lindsey Wasson / Associated Press)
