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Seattle offense vs. Denver defense

The Seahawks desperately need to find a way out of their funk and last week's performance by QB Jon Kitna should give the team hope. While he continues to struggle in the red zone and again had problems finding a flow early, Kitna took better care of the football and spread it around to all his receivers. Look for Seattle to continue spreading the field with more four and five-receiver sets in order to force the Broncos to use some of their young players in the secondary.

With all his receivers available for the first time this season, head coach Mike Holmgren will use formation variations and motion to isolate guys like WR's Derrick Mayes and Sean Dawkins on some of Denver's inexperienced defensive backs that have a tendency to blow coverage assignments. The Broncos received outstanding play underneath from their linebackers in the first meeting between these teams but DCs Dale Carter and Ray Crockett gave up too many big plays on the outside to Dawkins and Joey Galloway.

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