SEATTLE (AP) — Things got so frustrating for the Seahawks in Sunday's 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills that a pair of Seattle players exchanged blows and had to be separated on the sideline. In the seconds after linebacker Derick Hall was flagged for a 15-yard penalty for a late hit on Josh Allen, defensive end Jarran Reed got in Hall’s face on the field. The penalty came on a third-and-15 play where Allen threw an incompletion.
The Bills were awarded a first down and eventually scored a touchdown. Once they were on the sideline, Hall and Reed continued their spat by shoving and grabbing at each other’s facemasks before being pulled apart. The ugly moment encapsulated the Seahawks' dispiriting loss at home.
“There’s some frustration there,” coach Mike Macdonald said. “Look, our guys are connected and they have each other’s back, but they are emotional and there’s going to be flare-ups and stuff. It seems like it calmed down, but it wasn’t a smart penalty.
That’s not how we how we train our guys to attack quarterbacks. And so that wasn’t a smart move.” It was just one of many miscues by the Seahawks.
Fumbles, interceptions, penalties, personal fouls — Seattle did it all. “That’s the result of good football team that outplayed us in three phases,” Macdonald said. “And then it gets out of hand when you’re doing the things we did today.
We didn’t help ourselves as well. It’s a laundry list of things, we could go line item by line item if y.