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SPORTS Wednesday, January 2, 2019 East Oregonian B3 Seahawks playoff run started in Week 3 vs. Dallas By TIM BOOTH Associated Press RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll and Brian Schot- tenheimer sat together and decided with their team win- less after two games there needed to be a change. What the Seattle Sea- hawks were trying to do on offense wasn’t working. “He and I sat down and kind of had a little heart-to- heart,” said Schottenheimer, Seattle’s fi rst-year offensive coordinator. “There were things that he and I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page about. It wasn’t just the running game, it was he and I continuing to build our relationship and it was an awesome meeting. It proba- bly lasted about an hour and we talked about a ton of dif- ferent stuff. I know I came out of that meeting feeling really good just about the direction where we wanted to go.” The direction has been clear for more than three months as the Seahawks went from a team search- ing for answers to a team back in the postseason after a one-year absence from the playoffs. And it was the decisions made before playing Dallas in Week 3 where the switch was made and Seattle started on its path that has the Sea- hawks headed to face the Cowboys on Saturday night in an NFC wild-card game. The conversation between Carroll and Schot- tenheimer made clear Seattle was going back to the funda- mentals of how it wanted to be offensively. They were going to make running the ball the priority and let Rus- sell Wilson be a playmaker around the running success. The result: Seattle ended the season as the best run team in the NFL, and with Wilson having one of the best seasons of his career making big plays in the passing game. “I don’t think you’d always sit there and say we’re going to make this philosophy and go do this, and then you think you’re going to be the best in the league at it,” Schotten- AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle Seahawks’ Chris Carson carries as Arizona Cardinals’ Haason Reddick (43) pursues during the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday in Seattle. heimer said. Throughout last offsea- son, Seattle preached it was returning to the basic offen- sive fundamentals that led them to consecutive NFC titles. They were going to be bullies running the foot- ball behind the trio of Chris Carson, Mike Davis and Rashaad Penny. But for the fi rst two weeks of the season, Schot- tenheimer and Carroll got too far ahead of themselves. They tried to see how much the Seahawks could rely on Wilson, rather than relying on the run game. The result was a pair of ugly losses to Denver and Chicago, and Wilson running for his life getting sacked 12 times in those fi rst two games. When Dallas arrived in Week 3, so did Seat- tle’s change in approach. That was the week Car- son became the workhorse in the run game. It was the week that the additions of D.J. Fluker and J.R. Sweezy at the guard positions started to become noticeable, and Seattle’s running success meant Wilson was no longer under siege by the opposing pass rush. Seattle rushed for only 113 yards that day in the 24-13 win — 102 by Car- son — but it laid the founda- tion for what the Seahawks became. “They were talking about it the whole time of run- ning the ball more and being a run team,” Carson said. “They fi nally started getting it going against the Cow- boys and it’s taken off ever since.” Starting with Week 3, Seattle has rushed for 2,422 yards, the fourth-most by any team since 2010 during that 14-game span. The 2014 Seahawks had 2,447 yards during the same stretch of games, one spot ahead of this year’s team. While it was the Cow- boys when Seattle commit- ted to its offensive iden- tity, when it fully took hold depends on whom you ask. For Schottenheimer it wasn’t until Week 12 at Car- olina when he became con- vinced Seattle had the abil- ity to win in multiple ways. The victory over the Pan- thers came on a day Seat- tle ran for only 75 yards, but Wilson threw for 339. It’s the only time in the fi nal 14 games Seattle was held under 100 yards rushing as a team. For offensive tackle Duane Brown, it was Seat- tle’s fi rst game against the Los Angeles Rams in Week 5. Seattle lost 33-31, but ran for 190 yards and averaged 5.9 yards per carry. “It just became our norm and we had some pretty good fronts that we went against,” Brown said. Carroll agreed with his left tackle that it was a few games after facing the Cow- boys before the commitment to Seattle’s offensive style became the norm. EASTERN OREGON marketplace Place classified ads online at www.easternoregonmarketplace.com or call 1-800-962-2819 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. After hours, leave a voicemail and we’ll confirm your ad the next business day. Email us at classifieds@ eastoregonian.com or fax: 541-278-2680 East Oregonian Deadline is 3 p.m. the day before publication 211 S.E. Byers Ave. 333 E. 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