The Seahawks take one in the shorts

Seattle's offense played one of its best games of the season, but it's hard to see that as a bright side given the position the Seahawks are left in.

The Seahawks did not punt on Thursday night in Dallas. They will, however, be kicking themselves as well as any trash can that happens to be in the vicinity when someone mentions the officiating.

The Seahawks offense broke out of its month-long rut in fairly spectacular fashion, scoring more than 30 points for the first time since September only to fail on three straight fourth-down conversions in the fourth quarter.

The defense, however, didn’t do much to slow Dak Prescott after forcing a couple of first-half field goals. Dallas scored on eight of its nine possessions if you don’t count the Cowboys’ final clock-killing snaps of the first and second half.

Jason Myers missed a 42-yard field-goal attempt in the first half. The officials flagged linebacker Bobby Wagner for pass interference and then swallowed kept their hankies to themselves when the Cowboys Jourdan Lewis did the same thing to Seattle’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba later in the period. In what can only be compared to an act of God, the normally sure-handed Tyler Lockett flat-out dropped an easy catch for what would have been more than a 20-yard gain.

If this were earlier in the season or the Seahawks hadn’t lost twice to the Rams, I’d be inclined to point to the positives and say that Seattle stood toe-to-toe with a team that has been absolutely mopping teams on its home field.

But it isn’t earlier in the season and the Seahawks have lost twice to the Rams and they’ll take a three-game losing streak with them to San Francisco and the fact that Seattle has never lost four in a row under Pete Carroll isn’t offering all that much assurance at this point.