Seahawks Beaten by Colts

The Indianapolis Colts stayed unbeaten and quarterback Peyton Manning moved into a tie with Fran Tarkenton for most career passing touchdowns along the way, thoroughly dispatching the Seattle Seahawks, 34-17. The Seahawks put together only one sustained drive in the entire game when it mattered. That drive stalled in the red zone, forcing Olindo Mare to provide the Seahawks their only points of the game until late in the fourth quarter.

The Colts led 21-3 at halftime.

The third quarter was a true “snap shot” of the entire game. Manning and the Colts engineered a fourteen play, 7-minute drive that ended with a Joseph Addai touchdown run after receiving the second-half kickoff. Later in the quarter, when Ken Lucas ended a Colts drive with an interception, the Colts rushed Seneca Wallace – playing for starter Matt Hasselbeck – out of the pocket and forced a fumble, negating the Manning interception. In total, Manning completed 31 passes for 353 yards and two touchdowns. Reggie Wayne, Addai, Austin Collie, Dallas Clark, Pierre Garcon and Donald Brown caught Manning’s passes.

Wallace completed 32 passes for 256 yards and scored a touchdown passing and rushing. The Seahawks did end the game on a positive note with Wallace’s rushing touchdown, a recovered onside kick and a touchdown catch for Owen Schmitt – the first of his career.

The Seahawks play the Jacksonville Jaguars next Sunday, October 11.

Notes: Rob Simms, questionable before the game with an oblique strain, left in the first half with an ankle injury and did not return. Mansfield Wrotto replaced him…Peyton Manning threw for over 300 yards for the fourth week in a row, the best such streak in his career…Manning now only trails Brett Favre and Dan Marino on the all-time passing touchdowns list…Edgerrin James, the Colts all-time rushing leader, received a few nice rounds of applause from his former home crowd in Indianapolis and a career acknowledgment on the giant video screen…Seahawks receiver Nate Burleson was a non-factor, catching only three passes…Wallace was sacked five times and fumbled twice…players from both teams wore a lot of pink in recognition of “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”.

Seahawks fantasy stats:
Seneca Wallace – 256 passing, 1 TD passing, 1 TD rushing
TJ Houshmandzadeh – 8 catches for 103 yards
John Carlson – 5 catches for 39 yards
Julius Jones – 25 yards rushing and 10 yards receiving

Tags: Brett Favre, Dan Marino, Fran Tarkenton, Matt Hasselbeck, Olindo Mare, Peyton Manning, Seneca Wallace

Anton

Anton Northwood is a Seattle resident who spends much of his time working on the Eastside.

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