The Seahawks lost the battle of converting third downs on Sunday. Atlanta converted 7 of 14 third downs. Seattle converted just 3 of 9. On fourth down, the Seahawks were 1 for 1 while the Falcons failed to convert all 4 of their attempts. That’s enough to change the math significantly.
Money Down conversion:
Seahawks: 40%
Falcons: 38.9%
It’s worth noting too that better than converting third or fourth down is not needing to convert third or fourth down.
I wanted to look at how Seattle’s defense performed on third and fourth down during the highly contested part of the game.