Seahawks will try slowing down Ezekiel Elliott

Seahawks Pro Bowl linebacker Bobby Wagner was not listed on the final injury report on Friday.

Wagner, who missed practice on Wednesday and Thursday because of a hamstring injury, was back on the field before the Seahawks flew to Arlington, Texas, for their game against Dallas Sunday.
         
The Seahawks are going to battle against a Cowboys team that's won three straight games. Quarterback Russell Wilson and the Hawks will try giving the Dallas defense headaches in this must-win game.

The winning team on Sunday is still in the NFC wild-card race.

"If anybody likes adversity, this football team does, in the sense that we can handle adversity,” said Wilson. “We can handle the circumstances that we are in. Reality is, we can't determine what everybody else does. All we can do is what we can control."

"We've had our struggles,” Doug Baldwin, a Seahawks wide receiver, said. “We've endured some pretty devastating losses before, but I think just the time frame in which we are in, the situation which we are in, the state of our roster, age-wise, so many different factors play into it."

The Seahawks defense has allowed 72 total points in back-to-back losses. Now the Seattle defense has the challenge of going up against Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, who is making his return on Sunday.

"I think Ezekiel Elliott is a once-in-a-lifetime type of running back,” said defensive end Michael Bennett. “Obviously, he can do every single thing that you can do as a running back; he can run the ball, he can catch the ball, and he can block. He's a special talent."

"Don't let them get the running game started and then they open up the passing game and boots come and all those different things,” said Wagner. “So we have to focus on one task at a time, but stopping the run is a huge priority."

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