WEEK 3 · FINAL
THE READ
Luca Santana
Analyst
Seahawks run away with it, 62-10
52 points separated these two, and Seahawks had all of them. Jalen Milroe threw for Seahawks — 14/19, 314 yards, 5 TD. Jalen Milroe did the work on the ground for Seahawks — 10 carries, 216 yards, 3 TD. Jalen Milroe's high-water mark for the year. Total yards: Seahawks 530, Bengals 165.
Luca Santana
Analyst
THE WIDER PICTURE
| Team | SRS | SOS | MARGIN | TO +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengals | -2.2 | +1.7 | -3.9 | +2 |
| Seahawks | +24.0 | +2.4 | +21.6 | +33 |
SRS is how many points a side beats an
average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good
team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20.
SOS is how hard that schedule has been.
Full table.
Seahawks —
NFC #1 · division
· 12-2
Playoff picture →
In the MVP race
#2
Jalen Milroe
QB · Seahawks · 2.3% of the field
#10
Jaxon Smith-Njigba
WR · Seahawks · 0.5% of the field
The whole board →
IN THE BOOTH
Elise Carter
The insider
Cincinnati came out and handed the game away—6 turnovers and Joe Burrow's 5 interceptions is the kind of afternoon that costs you a playoff spot, and at 7-5 they cannot afford it. Seattle's 1 seed looks locked in: Jalen Milroe went nuclear with 5 touchdown passes and 216 rushing yards, and when a quarterback can beat you both ways like that, 62 points starts to look inevitable.
Talia Morgan
Beat reporter
· replying
Cincinnati's season just got harder. At 7-5 and already outside the playoff line, they cannot survive a 52-point loss to a team that is playing error-free football—Seattle turned it over once, Cincinnati six times, and that kind of margin in a single afternoon erases whatever goodwill they built earlier.
Nicole Santos
Beat reporter
· replying
Cincinnati's offense disappeared—80 passing yards and 165 total against a Seattle team that hung 530. When you can't move the ball and you're giving it away 6 times, a 52-point loss is what you get.
They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers —
none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that
did not happen.
Jalen Milroe
Seahawks
14/19, 314 yards, 5 TD
Jalen Milroe
Seahawks
10 carries, 216 yards, 3 TD
Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Seahawks
7 catches, 167 yards, 1 TD
THE STORY SO FAR
WHAT DECIDED IT
Total yards
Seahawks 530, Bengals 165
Seahawks
Through the air
Seahawks 314, Bengals 80
Seahawks
On the ground
Seahawks 216, Bengals 85
Seahawks
Giveaways
Seahawks 1, Bengals 6
Seahawks
THE ROOM
Final. The recap is below.
THE MATCHUP SCOUT
every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling
LEAGUE DATA
counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it
Pass-heavy
Pass 61% · Rush 39% · 24.5 scored, 28.4 allowed
7.9 yds/att
60.1% completions
4.2 yds/carry
353.2 yds/game
1.4 giveaways/game
3.9% sack rate
last 5: 2-3
SAPPHIRE METRICS
QB efficiency 60 · Efficient
Balance 89
Ball security 60
Back usage 32%
QB runs 4.0/game
PERSONNEL
off the roster — unit averages, best starters only
QB 97
WR 88
TE 82
RB 80
OL 78
DL 84
LB 78
DB 82
Best: Ja'Marr Chase WR 99
Fastest: Ja'Marr Chase WR 96 SPD
4 at star dev or better
YOUR NOTEBOOK
what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic
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LEAGUE DATA
counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it
Balanced
Pass 58% · Rush 42% · 41.3 scored, 19.6 allowed
11.1 yds/att
62.5% completions
7.7 yds/carry
437.1 yds/game
1.0 giveaways/game
5.2% sack rate
last 5: 5-0
SAPPHIRE METRICS
QB efficiency 77 · Efficient
Balance 92
Ball security 72
Back usage 28%
QB runs 6.3/game
PERSONNEL
off the roster — unit averages, best starters only
QB 98
WR 90
TE 85
RB 84
OL 81
DL 86
LB 81
DB 93
Best: Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR 99
Fastest: Rashid Shaheed WR 95 SPD
9 at star dev or better
YOUR NOTEBOOK
what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic
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HOW THEY PLAY
the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season
𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞
Seahawks · his last 8 games
Balanced
Pass / run58% / 42%
Points for / against38.6 — 18.1
Margin+20.5
Giveaways a game0.9
Sacks taken5.0% of dropbacks
Lead backJadarian Price · 11.6/g
Top targetJaxon Smith-Njigba · 30%
QB carries4.8 a game
KNOFLOCKINN$$
Bengals · his last 8 games
Balanced
Pass / run61% / 39%
Points for / against21.5 — 26.5
Margin-5.0
Giveaways a game1.0
Sacks taken3.1% of dropbacks
Lead backChase Brown · 14.8/g
Top targetJa'Marr Chase · 33%
QB carries2.6 a game
Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.
THE SERIES
KNOFLOCKINN$$ against 𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞ — the men, not the teams
𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞ leads it 1-0.
𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞ won the last one.
1 meeting
avg 10.0 — 62.0
biggest: 52 pts to 𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞
S2 · week 3
KNOFLOCKINN$$ 10 — 62 𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞
𝐗𝟑𝐬𝐎𝐬𝐀✞
Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.
MATCHUP ADVANTAGES
unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push
Bengals receivers vs Seahawks secondary
88 v 93
SEAHAWKS
Seahawks receivers vs Bengals secondary
90 v 82
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Bengals line vs Seahawks front
78 v 86
SEAHAWKS
Seahawks line vs Bengals front
81 v 84
BENGALS
Bengals backs vs Seahawks run defence
80 v 84
SEAHAWKS
Seahawks backs vs Bengals run defence
84 v 82
EVEN
Bengals passer vs Seahawks secondary
97 v 93
BENGALS
Seahawks passer vs Bengals secondary
98 v 82
SEAHAWKS
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BOX SCORE
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| PLAYER | C/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | SCK | LNG | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Burrow QB | 5/17 | 80 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 7.1 |
SEAHAWKS
| PLAYER | C/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | SCK | LNG | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jalen Milroe QB | 14/19 | 314 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 155.1 |
BENGALS
| PLAYER | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | BTK | YAC | LNG | FUM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Burrow QB | 3 | 58 | 19.3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 46 | 1 |
| Chase Brown HB | 8 | 27 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 0 |
| Ja'Marr Chase WR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SEAHAWKS
| PLAYER | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | BTK | YAC | LNG | FUM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jalen Milroe QB | 10 | 216 | 21.6 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 53 | 1 |
| Tory Horton WR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BENGALS
| PLAYER | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | YAC | DRP | LNG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ja'Marr Chase WR | 4 | 80 | 20 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 32 |
| Mike Gesicki TE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
SEAHAWKS
| PLAYER | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | YAC | DRP | LNG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR | 7 | 167 | 23.9 | 1 | 154 | 1 | 39 |
| KJ Duff TE | 3 | 75 | 25 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 40 |
| Rashid Shaheed WR | 2 | 59 | 29.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Tory Horton WR | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
BENGALS
| PLAYER | TKL | SCK | INT | PD | FF | CMP ALW | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Dugger SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Barrett Carter MIKE | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Josh Newton CB | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dax Hill CB | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dalton Brooks SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boye Mafe REDG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bryan Cook FS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SEAHAWKS
| PLAYER | TKL | SCK | INT | PD | FF | CMP ALW | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devon Witherspoon CB | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Troy Andersen MIKE | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fisher Camac DT | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nick Emmanwori SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kamari Lassiter CB | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yhonzae Pierre LEDG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bud Clark FS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Julian Love SS | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ameer Speed CB | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BENGALS
| PLAYER | FG | XP | LNG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evan McPherson K | 1/1 | 1/1 | 27 |
SEAHAWKS
nothing recorded
RECENT FORM
Bengals
L
16–18 vs Patriots
WK 2
W
31–25 vs Browns
WK 1
Seahawks
W
41–13 vs Cardinals
WK 2
W
42–24 vs Colts
WK 1
TEAM STATS
| Bengals | Seahawks | |
|---|---|---|
| 165 | TOTAL YARDS | 530 |
| 80 | PASSING YARDS | 314 |
| 85 | RUSHING YARDS | 216 |
| 2 | SACKS ALLOWED | 0 |
| 0 | SACKS MADE | 2 |
| 6 | GIVEAWAYS | 1 |
| 1 | TAKEAWAYS | 6 |
Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.
ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD
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