Seahawks tie franchise record with 11 sacks in blowout win over Giants

Bobby Wagner, Jordyn Brooks, Devon Witherspoon, and Uchenna Nwosu each had 2.0 sacks. Four players with two-plus sacks is the most in a game in franchise history. Seven Seattle players had one-plus sack, second-most in club history.

Add in Witherspoon’s game-sealing, 97-yard pick-six, and the Seahawks became the second team in the Super Bowl era to have 11-plus sacks and a pick-six in the same game (Oakland Raiders in Week 7, 1977 at Buffalo — also 11 sacks and one pick-six).

“I think we needed it,” Wagner said of the 11-sack performance. “I think each game defensively we’ve been getting better. We’ve been doing a good job stopping (the) run, but the one thing was just applying pressure. I think the last game, we had a lot of pressures but not as many sacks. I felt like this game, we turned those pressures into sacks.”

Daniel Jones, the recipient of 10 of those sacks (the 11th came on a blown-up swing pass of Parris Campbell as the WR looked to throw), was under siege all night from a relentless Seahawks attack.

After losing Week 1 at home by 17 points to the L.A. Rams, the Seahawks head into their bye week on a three-game win streak, including a road win in Detroit and back-to-back double-digit victories.

The Seahawks have started 3-1 or better for the third time in the last five seasons. The club has made playoffs in each of the previous 10 seasons they started 3-1 or better.