re: Seahawks had 360 total yards. Russell Wilson had 344 of them

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i know this isn’t really you’re point but doesn’t that stat basically just mean that their running game sucks? Mariota accounted for 98.4% of his team’s total offense against the Steelers this week. Big Ben had 88.5% of the Steelers’ total yards in the game. There are plenty of NFL teams with garbage running games that are basically just as good as their qb allows them to be.

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Except that both of those teams you mentioned have excellent running games.

Mariota for example, had that much total offense because his poor play got them in a hole that they needed to throw to dig themselves out of. Their entire philosophy is to run the ball to set up the pass. Hard to do that when your QB is throwing picks left and right.