The Seahawks are a zone team. Under Pete Carroll, they have always been a zone team. It doesn’t matter how much defensive talent they have, or who the defensive coordinator is – the scheme is and has always been primarily about playing zone, keeping the ball in front of them and rallying to make stops. Unfortunately, over the last six years that just hasn’t worked out very well – in large part because the Seahawks simply aren’t getting enough pressure with a four-man rush to make a zone-heavy defense work.
