The Seahawks played awful on both sides of the football yesterday and it showed on the scoreboard.  Matt Hasselbeck was putrid completing 19 of 37 passes for 198 yards with 1 TD pass and 4 INTs.  Justin Forsett led the way for the Seahawks on the ground last night with 70 yards rushing on 14 carries (5.0 ypc).  Julius Jones also was busy with 14 carries for 39 yards (2.8 ypc) and he has also caught 6 passes for 51 yards (8.5 avg).  Deion Branch did a decent job last night for the Seahawks with 5 receptions for  53 yards (10.6 avg).  T.J. Houshmandzadeh pitched in with 4 grabs for 51 yards (12.8 avg) in this game.  TE John Carlson only caught 2 passes for 24 yards (12.0 avg) but he caught a TD pass.  The Seahawks finished up with 291 total yards on offense (115 rushing, 176 passing) in this game.

Linebacker Will Herring (8 tackles) and DT Brandon Mebane (6 tackles) led a terrible effort by the Seahawks’ D yesterday.  The Packers finished up with 417 total yards on offense (153 rushing, 264 passing) in this game.  The Seahawks are now 5-10 on the year.

32-year old WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh has come as advertised this season for the Seahawks.  He has played in 14 games for the Seahawks this season and he caught 72 passes for 794 yards (11.0 avg) with 3 TD grabs.  If the Seahawks were getting better play out of the QB position his numbers would be even better.  Look for Houshmandzadeh to have a outstanding year for the Seahawks in 2010 if the team makes a needed change at QB.

It’s getting to the point where the Seahawks might have to replace 34-year old Matt Hasselbeck as the starting QB in 2010 due to the fact that he is becoming injury prone and it’s hurting his effectiveness on the field.  He has played in 12 games for the Seahawks this season and he has completed 259 of 421 passes (61.5%) for 2,656 yards with 15 TD passes and 12 INTs (79.6 QB Rating).  He has also carried the ball 23 times for 108 yards (4.7 ypc) this season.  If the Seahawks do decide to replace Hasselbeck as the starter they really can’t afford to give the starting job to Seneca Wallace who isn’t really starting material.

The Seahawks will likely have a rough go of it this weekend at Lambeau Field.  The Seahawks have lost their last six games on the road against NFL teams (not the Rams) by an average of 19.2 points.  That does not bode well for them this weekend against a Packers’ team that will likely be in a bad frame of mind after losing to the Steelers on the last play of the game last week.  The best chance for the Seahawks to compete in this game is to air it out on offense.  Matt Hasselbeck has a nice set of receivers in Nate Burleson, T.J. Houshmandzadeh and TE John Carlson so they need to put the ball up.  The O-Line will have to keep rookie OLB Clay Matthews out of their backfield to give Hasselbeck the time he needs to throw the football.  Julius Jones and Justin Forsett are probably going to have long days against the Packers who are only allowing 83.6 yards rushing per game and 3.6 yards per carry.

The Seahawks are also likely to have a long day on defense against the Packers’ O.  The Seahawks must get a good pass rush on Aaron Rodgers or he is going to pick them apart.  The bad thing for the Seahawks is that Rodgers moves the ball around while not keying on any WR or TE.  Even if the Seahawks can somehow slow down Rodgers and the passing game Ryan Grant will give them trouble on the ground.

PREDICTION:  PACKERS 34, SEAHAWKS 13

The Seahawks have signed 39-year old long snapper/TE Jeff Robinson to replace the injured Kevin Houser.  Robinson played in 16 games (0 starts) last season as he served as the long snapper on the Seahawks.  He has now played in 200 games (18 starts) in his NFL career and he has caught 28 passes for 278 yards (9.9 avg) with 8 TD grabs.  Look for Robinson to just handle the long snapping as his days of going out for passes is long gone.