Live Updates: Follow Gregg Bell’s reporting from Seahawks-Falcons at Lumen Field

A perfect Sunday for anything in the Pacific Northwest — including the Seahawks’ second home game of the season, this NFL week-three matchup with the Atlanta Falcons.

Coach Pete Carroll ended this week backing off his earlier statements quarterback Geno Smith needed to throw more and deeper down the field to open up Seattle’s offense. It enters this game last in the NFL in rushing offense. Smith entered Sunday leading the league with a completion rate of 81% — but with the NFL’s shortest throws. Smith was averaging just 8.3 yards per completion.

Hence the need to throw deeper.

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This story was originally published September 25, 2022 at 11:41 AM.

Gregg Bell

The News Tribune

Gregg Bell is the Seahawks and NFL writer for The News Tribune. He is a two-time Washington state sportswriter of the year, voted by the National Sports Media Association in January 2023 and January 2019. He started covering the NFL in 2002 as the Oakland Raiders beat writer for The Sacramento Bee. The Ohio native began covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season of 2005. In a prior life he graduated from West Point and served as a tactical intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, so he may ask you to drop and give him 10. Support my work with a digital subscription