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  Seahawks running game struggles in thirty-four seventeen home loss to the Bears.
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  Written by Josh Kirshenbaum. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice generated by Everlet. Seattle, the AP. The Seattle Seahawks
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  returned two key pieces in their backfield and had a new big
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  name on the offensive line. It wasn't enough to spark their struggling
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  running game in a thirty four seventeen loss to the Chicago Bears
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  on Monday night. We have to watch the film, tailback Zack Charbonnet
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  said. But we've got to get a lot better, and quick. Charbonnet
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  made the start in the backfield, making his first appearance since he
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  tore his ACL last January. First round rookie Jadarian Price saw his
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  first action since week three after dealing with a rib injury that
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  put him on injured reserve, entering for a play on Seattle's second
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  drive and getting his first carry on its third. The duo ran
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  behind a line that was without Charles Cross, who suffered an ankle
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  injury in the fourth quarter of last week's win over the Chiefs,
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  but added Quentin Nelson after picking the eight time Pro Bowler up
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  in a trade with Indianapolis on Tuesday. But as a unit, the
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  Seahawks couldn't get much going, finishing with eight one yards rushing. Price
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  led the way with twenty nine yards on ten carries, while Charbonnet
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  added twenty three on six, excluding quarterback Sam Darnold's twenty rushing yards,
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  fourteen of which came on one scramble late in the fourth quarter,
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  Seattle averaged three point five nine yards per carry. The rough outing
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  brings the Seahawks down to one hundred and nine point six rushing
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  yards per game through eight weeks, and its effects went beyond just
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  the rushing numbers. Seattle went one for eleven third down thanks in
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  large part to the fact that it averaged ten point three yards
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  to go, the fourth most of any team this season. We've got
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  to improve very quickly in the run game, Guard Gray's Abel said.
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  Got to get back to running the ball, take the pressure off
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  our quarterback and wide receivers and our play caller. Got to be
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  able to move the line of scrimmage. Charbonnet took a handoff on
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  the first play from scrimmage of the knight five yards upfield, eliciting
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  a roar from the crowd at Lumen Field for his return. It's
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  just a blessing to get back on the field, he said. But
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  the Seahawks wouldn't have another rush by a tailback go that long
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  until the third quarter, when George Halani went for nine yards on
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  a third and eighteen draw. By the end of the night the
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  crowd was booing the run game, specifically back to back handoffs to
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  Price, that combined to get three yards with the clock ticking under
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  seven minutes, and the hosts trailing by ten. Nelson's arrival, combined with
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  Cross's injury, moved pieces all along the line. With Nelson taking his
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  normal spot at left guard, learning the Seattle playbook and acclimating to
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  the offense in less than a week, Zable flipped sides to right
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  guard, Josh Jones subbed in at left tackle. I think there were
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  flashes, Zabel said. But at the end of the day, moving pieces
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  or not, you've got to go out and perform and do the
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  best you can. Today wasn't good enough. See the AP's full NFL
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  coverage here.