Seahawks' Drew Lock Has High Praise For Brian Fleury In OC Debut

Losing his quarterback after just five plays isn't the way new Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Brian Fleury would have envisioned his first game to go.

But that is exactly what happened: all the preparation with Sam Darnold went out the window, and Drew Lock was thrust into the starting role against the New England Patriots.

In the 13-10 win, Lock was more than serviceable, going 16-of-22 for 187 yards and a touchdown, with the Seahawks, naturally, leaning on their defense to get the job done...and they did.

Scoring 10 of their 13 points in the fourth quarter, as Fleury and Lock found their groove as a coordinator/quarterback combo, the pair deserve credit for how they handled the situation, because that is tough.

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And for Lock, he had nothing but praise for Fleury on his debut as an NFL play-caller.

"It was great to get in here at half, put the plays up on the board, talk about our openers coming out of the half, really get those dialed in," Lock said. "I think it's also a little bit of just feeling the flow of the game, getting back into this, finding ways to, in the future, be able to snap into it quicker, that's just the life of a backup. But he did a fantastic job all night."

There was one poor moment though.

Late in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks faced a second-and-one from the Patriots' three-yard line, with a touchdown there for the taking; a delay of game and back-to-back incompletions forced Seattle to settle for a field goal.

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Meaning the Patriots only needed a field goal to tie and a touchdown would win it.

For Lock, that drive sticks in his paw.

"We need to be a little better on some procedural things," he added. "Obviously, that's apparent. We can't go second and inches to whatever we ended up on that drive, could have came back to bite us, and we got to get better with that moving forward."

Had the Seahawks defense not come away with an interception at Seattle's 16-yard line, the game would have been destined for overtime, and who knows what could have happened.

So, Macdonald's team got a little lucky, but in this game, you need a little of that, and on opening night, when things went against Seattle, the football gods smiled down on them.