Lambeau Landslide

The snow stopped falling by the time Seattle kicked off to start Sunday’s game against the Packers.

The avalanche, however, was just beginning in a game where the only suspense was how high the result would rank on the list of Seattle’s most lopsided losses under Pete Carroll.

It was Green Bay 38, Seattle 10, and the 78,057 witnesses who paid to be there will tell you that it wasn’t even that close. It was, however, Seattle’s worst loss since drafting Russell Wilson and the third-largest margin of defeat since Carroll became coach in 2010.

It was the most points Seattle has allowed in any game since they gave up 39 to Arizona in November 2015, and not one of them had all that much to do with Earl Thomas’ absence. To complain about Seattle’s inability to pressure Aaron Rodgers or for its corners to cover Green Bay’s wide receivers would only distract from the eyesore that was Seattle’s passing game.

Wilson was picked off five times, his most in any regular-season game in his career. That it came against Green Bay – the team that picked him off four times in the NFC Championship game two seasons ago – made it sting a little more.

So did the fact that Aaron Rodgers threw three scoring passes, completed 75 percent of his pass attempts and – most tellingly – was done for the day with 11:46 to play. He wasn’t sacked until the final play of the third quarter.

Meanwhile, the Seahawks gave up 24 unanswered points after kicking a field goal on their first possession, and they were in danger of failing to score a touchdown for the fourth time this season until rookie Tanner McEvoy caught a 21-yard touchdown pass midway through the fourth quarter.

This wasn’t like the previous stinkers from Seattle’s offense, though. In those games, Seattle’s offensive ineptitude was fairly all encompassing. This time, the suffering was more of the self-inflicted variety with six turnovers and not a single takeaway.

Two of Wilson passes were picked off at or near the end zone. The first came on a pass intended for Doug Baldwin at the end of the first half. The second came on Seattle’s first possession of the third quarter when Wilson again underthrew a well-covered Jermaine Kearse, resulting in a ball that was tipped and then intercepted.

Wilson’s final two interceptions couldn’t be blamed on the quarterback. A third-quarter pass to Baldwin went through the receiver’s hands, caromed off his helmet and was picked off. A fourth-quarter throw bounced off Troymaine Pope’s hands and popped into the air for safety Micah Hyde.

It all added up to an undistinguished end of a historical streak.

The Seahawks had not lost by more than 10 points for an NFL-record 95 straight games going back to a 34-12 loss at home to Cincinnati on Oct. 30, 2011, a game best remembered because it was the last one Charlie Whitehurst ever started for Seattle. The only other time that Seattle lost by double digits in that time was a 10-point loss in Week 2 of last season. That game was also at Green Bay.

Historians and masochists will note that the 28-point loss was Seattle’s largest margin of defeat since Seattle suffered a 41-7 loss to the New York Giants on Nov. 7, 2010. That came one week after the Seahawks were beaten 33-3 in Oakland.

Those are the only two games in which Seattle lost by more points since Carroll became the coach.