Seahawks turning into road warriors
Michael Robinson spent the first seven weeks of the NFL season at home waiting for the right job opportunity to come his way and making observations about what was happening in the league.
When the fullback rejoined the Seattle Seahawks this past week — the team Robinson spent the previous three seasons with — one of his first remarks had nothing to do with Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch or Richard Sherman.
“We’ve grown up, definitely, across the board. We’ve learned how to win on the road,” Robinson said. “We’ve learned how to take that excitement, that juice that we have here and we’ve learned how to put that on the road now and win some nice games on the road.”
Once considered patsies when outside the noisy confines of their home field, the Seahawks ( 6- 1) have morphed from pushovers to consistent winners away from home. They’ve started this season 3-1 away from Seattle, matching last year’s road win total, and have a chance to improve on that mark Monday night in St. Louis (3-4) against the Rams. The change in Seattle’s results away from home is dramatic compared to just a few seasons ago.
“We weren’t playing very well, and when you don’t play very well, you get your butt kicked,” Carroll said.
In their last 16 road games, the Seahawks are 8-8 and none of the losses have been by more than 10 points. Seattle’s five road losses last season were by a combined 24 points, with a 13-6 loss at San Francisco the most decisive.
Still, the lessons learned in losing those late leads have mostly taken hold.
“What we need to be is more consistent,” Clemens said.