With news that Rashaad Penny could miss this week’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs www.seahawkscheapshops.com , the Seattle Seahawks have signed running back Bo Scarbrough off of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ practice squad.We’ll have more on Scarbrough later this week from Roll Bama Roll writer Brent Taylor, but here’s a few things to know:Scarbrough signed with Alabama as a five-star recruit in 2015 with many expecting him to be the Tide’s next Heisman winner. That never came to fruition. He tore his ACL before his freshman year, He had 18 carries that season. As a sophomore, Scarbrough took 125 handoffs and gained 812 yards with 11 touchdowns as the backup to Damien Harris, as well as quarterback Jalen Hurts, who rushed for 954 yards. In his third and final season in Alabama, Scarbrough had 596 yards on 124 carries, an average of 4.8 per attempt. Despite a disappointing career, Scarbrough entered the NFL draft early and was selected in the seventh round by the Dallas Cowboys. Despite a seemingly good situation with the Cowboys offense, Scarbrough was cut and the team went with two running backs to open this season. He was signed to the Jaguars practice squad on October 11 and has remained there.At the combine, Scarbrough ran a 4.52 40-yard dash at 228 lbs. He had a 10’9 broad jump and a 40” vertical. For now Seattle Seahawks T-Shirt , there’s no indication that the Seahawks won’t be fine with Chris Carson and Davis, nor do we know for sure that Penny can’t go, but this seems to be a sign that the team is at least concerned that they’ll need depth there for Sunday’s game. We haven’t been notified yet as to who Scarbrough is replacing on the 53.Update: The Seahawks have placed Jordan Simmons on IR to open the roster spot. Simmons missed three seasons at USC with a knee injury and again it seems his knee is costing him opportunities. The Seattle Seahawks finished 9th in offensive DVOA this season, its highest ranking since the memorable 2015 second-half surge put them all the way to the top spot. Unfortunately, when matched up against the #9 defense by DVOA last Saturday, they could not break down the Dallas Cowboys until it was too late. Or rather, they did break down the Cowboys defense through the air, they just waited too long to realize that was working better than the stagnant rushing attack.Whatever the case, that loss was a familiar sight for the Seahawks offense in 2018. Even though DVOA takes into account strength of opponent, if you look at the end-of-season rankings, Seattle was just 2-4 against teams that boasted top-10 defenses Seattle Seahawks Hats , and six of their bottom eight performances in terms of Expected Points Added (EPA) were against those teams.L at Denver Broncos (5th) - 24 pointsL at Chicago Bears (1st) - 17 pointsW at Dallas Cowboys (9th) - 24 pointsL vs. Los Angeles Chargers (8th) - 17 pointsW vs. Minnesota Vikings (4th) - 21 points (but only 14 points on offense)L at Dallas Cowboys (9th) - 22 pointsNow you may be thinking that averaging 20.8 pts per game against quality defenses isn’t that bad, but I argue it’s deceiving. Seattle’s EPA was -7.72 versus the Broncos. 14 of their 24 points came off of turnovers that only required them to go a combined 56 yards for their touchdowns. Overall, 8 of their 15 drives ended in a three-and-out or a turnover. Against the Bears, their final touchdown to make it 24-17 dropped Chicago’s win probability to 99.8%. They went three-and-out on 5 of 12 drives and didn’t eclipse 200 yards of total offense until the aforementioned consolation TD. Seattle’s EPA was a season-worst -11.46, with the pick-six certainly not helping matters. And yes, in both Denver and Chicago there were six sacks taken by Russell Wilson.They fared well against the Cowboys in the first matchup, particularly on third-down conversions (7/16), but even in that game they went three-and-out on half of their 12 possessions (subtracting the kneeldown at the end of the game). We’d probably be looking at that game a tad differently if not for three turnovers by the Cowboys, two of which were deep in Seattle territory. Nevertheless, the 17-point second quarter is their singular best 15 minutes of football against a top-10 defense all season.The Chargers game had its share of blown opportunities with a missed field goal, bad passes (and a pick-6) by Russell Wilson Seattle Seahawks Hoodie , questionable officiating, but they were stuck on 10 points until after the two-minute warning, by which point the win probability for the Chargers was at 98.8% on Nick Vannett’s TD that cut it to 25-17. Even on the game’s final snap, Los Angeles’ WP had dropped to 84.4%.Against the Vikings, the defense did the work. Yes, the rushing attack gashed Minnesota for 214 yards, but Seattle was held to 6 points until Chris Carson’s score with 2:53 to go. The Seahawks defense got a fumble return touchdown to make it 21 points on an evening when Seattle’s offense had a -0.04 EPA.Then we come to the Cowboys rematch. The EPA was a positive 3.19, but another six three-and-outs on 12 drives combined with a 2/13 third-down conversion rate is not optimal offense. For some reason the win probability chart went haywire and is showing 77.7% WP for Dallas after they recovered the uh... “onside kick.” It does list Dallas at 99.8% a couple of plays prior to JD McKissic’s touchdown, which is good enough for me to say this game was effectively out of reach once it got to 24-14, much like the Bears game at 24-10.If you subtract what was close to garbage time against Chicago and Dallas — the low rate of onside kick success in 2018-19 only strengthens my argument — the Seahawks only averaged 16.5 points on offense against these teams in meaningful action. Also glaring? They were only 23/80 on third-down conversions in these six games. And these were at various points of the season, with and without Doug Baldwin Cheap Customized Seattle Seahawks Jerseys , with and without a stronger commitment to the running game, with DJ Fluker/without DJ Fluker, etc.Unsurprisingly, their best offensive performances came against very bad defenses like the Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers (home), Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, Oakland Raiders, and the very overrated Rams defense twice over. That’s a good thing that this offense is conclusively strong enough to be efficient against the bottom of the barrel. Truly elite offenses have to be able to be more successful against stronger defenses than what we saw from the 2018 Seahawks, and that’s on Pete Carroll and Brian Schottenheimer to figure out entering 2019.