Seattle’s running game once moved the earth — ask any local seismologist — but now the Seahawks just want to do a better job of moving the sticks.
The franchise is in a rebuilding cycle, and a big part of that is reestablishing the running game that has been on hiatus for a couple of years.
In the past two years, the Seahawks were 23rd and 25th in rushing, a shadow of the team that in the four years prior was ranked third, fourth, first and third.
They might not move the needle the way Lynch did in the “Beast Quake” game — the reaction to his rollicking touchdown run against New Orleans actually registered on the Richter scale — although a revitalized ground game will help the Seahawks control the clock and bleed pressure off do-everything quarterback Russell Wilson.