This Week in Seahawks Historical past: Bruce Irvin clinches home-field benefit for Seattle

This can be a weekly article sequence all through the season wanting again on what occurred for the Seattle Seahawks 40, 30, 20, and 10 years in the past this week.

Form of a combined bag for this text with some downers within the first two video games adopted by two victories with playoff penalties. Learn on!

40 Years In the past
Saturday, December 29, 1984

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The 1983 Seattle Seahawks have been in a position to upset the Miami Dolphins however that story wouldn’t repeat in 1984, sadly. The Dolphins scored first and Seattle was aggressive within the 1st half, going into the break trailing simply 14-10 because of a 56-yard TD go from Dave Krieg to Steve Largent. Then, the Dolphins took over, scoring 17 factors within the 2nd half and shutting out the Seahawks on path to a 31-10 victory.

Dave Krieg was simply 20/35 for 234 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT. Dan Doornink had 10 carries for 35 yards. Steve Largent had 6 catches for 128 yards and 1 TD.

John Harris had 2 INTs for the Seahawks protection within the finale.

Total, the Seahawks completed the 1984 season at 13-5. Whereas it could have been barely disappointing contemplating they made the AFC Championship recreation in 1983 and bowed out a spherical earlier in 1984, the truth that they bought that far after shedding celebrity RB Curt Warner within the first recreation is extremely spectacular. They could not have achieved all their targets however it confirmed that the workforce was nonetheless very proficient and Chuck Knox was a heck of a coach.

30 Years In the past
Saturday, December 24, 1994

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Hey look, Invoice Belichick is the coach for the Cleveland Browns! It’s additionally a Christmas Eve recreation! Too dangerous there have been no presents on this one for the Seahawks as they bought thrashed on the street to complete the 1994 season at 6-10. Seattle fired Tom Flores after the season and seemed for a brand new head coach to guide them in 1995.

Dan McGwire was 11/26 for 149 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT. Stan Gelbaugh was 7/11 for 80 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT. Chris Warren had 16 carries for 61 yards. Brian Blades had 6 catches for 80 yards.

Terry Taylor had 1 INT as the one notable stat for the Seahawks protection within the remaining recreation of the 1994 season.

20 Years In the past
Sunday, December 26, 2004

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The 2004 Seahawks have been nonetheless within the thick of the playoff hunt as they hosted the Arizona Cardinals the day after Christmas. Would Seattle present us that they’re who we thought they have been or would they let the Cardinals off the hook? Shout out to Dennis Inexperienced who had some nice sound bites as a head coach. Seattle had a 24-7 lead early within the 4th Quarter however the Cardinals made it very uncomfortable with two 29-yard TD passes from Josh McCown to Larry Fitzgerald. Not less than Seattle held them off and bought the win!

Matt Hasselbeck was coping with an elbow harm so Trent Dilfer bought the beginning. He was 10/26 for 128 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT. Shaun Alexander was a workhorse with 30 carries for 154 yards and all 3 Seahawks TDs. Darrell Jackson had 6 catches for 101 yards.

Marcus Trufant and Ken Lucas each had 1 INT. Chike Okeafor had 2.0 sacks. Ken Hamlin and Antonio Cochran every had 1.0 sack.

10 Years In the past
Sunday, December 28, 2014

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I say it each time, however the Seahawks all the time struggled with the (then) St. Louis Rams. Seattle was making an attempt to safe a first-round bye for the playoffs whereas Jeff Fisher was making an attempt to play spoiler. The sport was manner nearer than it ought to’ve been and was nonetheless very a lot undecided till Bruce Irvin had a 59 yard pick-6 partway via the 4th Quarter to present Seattle a 14-point lead that was an excessive amount of for the Rams to beat. Seattle was on a roll and headed into the playoffs with a much-needed bye.

Russell Wilson was 17/25 for 239 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT. Marshawn Lynch had 14 carries for 60 yards and 1 TD. Paul Richardson had 5 catches for 60 yards.

Bruce Irvin stuffed the stat sheet with 6 tackles, 1.0 sack, 1 FF, and 1 INT which he returned 59 yards for a TD. Jordan Hill had 1 INT and 0.5 sack. Kevin Williams and O’Brien Schofield every had 1.0 sack. Cliff Avril recorded the remaining 0.5 sack.