The Seattle Seahawks suffered the worst losses in recent memory on Sunday due to things that went wrong.

Football is said to be won and lost in the trenches, and the Seattle Seahawks learned that the hard way Sunday in a 37-3 loss to the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium.

On Sunday, a lot of things went wrong for Seattle, and that may be an understatement. The Seahawks were completely outmatched in the trenches, which was arguably their biggest problem in this game.

The offensive struggles of the Seahawks were much more visible. They allowed Geno Smith to be sacked four times, a season high, but what was even worse was their inability to establish any sort of running game. Despite having two capable running backs in Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet, the Seahawks only had 28 rushing yards on Sunday and averaged 1.9 yards per carry.

“We wanted to (start it early).” You’ve heard the saying, “If you don’t convert (first downs), you don’t have chances and you’re off the field.” “It doesn’t matter how much you want to do something when you have to sit down,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll told reporters. “You can’t call plays from the bench.” We need to make some clutch third-down plays.”

Moving on to the defensive side of the ball, the Seahawks did not fare any better. They only got to Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson once, and they let the Ravens rush for nearly 300 yards on an average of more than seven yards per carry. Keaton Mitchell, an undrafted rookie, ripped through the Seahawks defense for 40 and 60 yard runs, the latter of which went for a touchdown.

“It’s extremely frustrating.” That’s not typical of us,” defensive tackle Jarran Reed explained. “That’s not something we’ve filmed all season.” But this is the NFL. We’re going to take it on the chin and come back to the drawing board on Monday.”

On both sides of the ball, Seattle has a number of injuries, including offensive tackle Abraham Lucas and linebacker Uchenna Nwosu. Still, the Seahawks can’t expect to advance if they continue to be dominated in the trenches. The team is aware of this, and the team’s top priority following this game should be to address these issues.

“I think it’s just stuff like that where we beat ourselves up.” “I’m not fitting in the gaps correctly, I’m staying on the back side of plays, I’m staying on the front side of plays,” he explained. “Things that we can’t to beat ourselves, we’ve got to hone in on that.”