RENTON, Wash. -- When the Seattle Seahawks pulled off a blockbuster trade to acquire Jadeveon Clowney a week before the season opener, it gave their defense a legitimate claim as the most loaded front seven in all of football.
And it left their post-Legion of Boom secondary as the team's biggest question mark.
That question got bigger after the Seahawks allowed Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton to throw for 418 yards on Sunday -- the fourth-highest total yielded in 145 regular-season games under coach Pete Carroll in Seattle. And the Bengals did it without star wide receiver A.