When the New England Patriots play the Philadelphia Eagles in this Sunday’s Super Bowl, you know NBC is going to queue up the Malcolm Butler interception and talk about how the Seahawks didn’t run Marshawn Lynch from the 1-yard line. It’s inevitable, so brace yourself or go watch the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. I hear puppies are great at catch and surviving the ground.
As someone who’s always interested in extremely specific but not always meaningful statistics, I wanted to know just how successful the Seahawks have been running the ball from the door step of the opposing team’s end zone since 2012.