Seattle has a deep and talented secondary even without Lane and they excel at bump n run coverage. So we start our first drive with stack sets on every play, and move the ball effectively with Seattle forced to play away with zone concepts. Then Lane goes out and we respond by going spread ISO on pretty much every passing play. Seattle, as night follows day, squats on our routes and shuts our offense down. Our guys cant get open, what with them getting mugged and molested every step, and Rodgers gets sacked 4 times. Second half we go back to heavy use of stack sets and man beater routes and once again Seattle has to play off, Packers suddenly can move the ball again.
This is something that has driven me nuts with this team for years, but when confronted with top notch man cover corners try to force them to play zone and eureka they're suddenly not as good. New Orleans used to do this to us all of the time when we had great bump and run corners. I don't know if its Rodgers or MM but there has been a certain knuckle-headedness to our offense for years now.