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RENTON, Wash. -- For the first half of the season, Cliff Avril, Michael Bennett and the rest of the Seattle Seahawks defensive line were able to create havoc, getting into the backfield and making opposing quarterbacks aware of their presence.Through eight games, Seattle had recorded 27 sacks and at one point Avril was leading the NFC in sacks.But for the past five games, the pass rush and the ability to sack the quarterback has gone missing. And as Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers showed in Sundays 38-10 thumping of the Seahawks, if given enough time due to the lack of pressure its possible to find holes in Seattles secondary.I am concerned about that. We would like to get those numbers back to going like they were, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.Over the past five games, Seattle has just five sacks, highlighted by the complete lack of pressure on Rodgers. Seattle recorded one sack -- late in the third quarter when Rodgers fell down -- and had just three quarterback hits. The lack of pressure allowed Rodgers to pick apart Seattles secondary to a passer rating of 150.8, the highest ever allowed by the Seahawks since Carroll took over.Its a growing concern not so much for the final three weeks of the regular season when Seattle faces the other three NFC West teams, all headed for losing seasons, but whether it will be an issue when the postseason arrives.Im disappointed in that because our numbers were rolling just before in the last few weeks, Carroll said. In this game, we tried to keep him in the pocket and we did and he hung around and made the most of it. He did a great job, talking about Aaron (Rodgers). We were surprised coming out of the game that we werent able to get him down.While the Seahawks were upset with the lack of penalties called on the Green Bay offensive line, the trend was pointing downward in pressures for the previous few weeks. Seattle had two sacks each in wins over New England and Philadelphia, but was shut out in a loss at Tampa Bay and a blowout win over Carolina. If not for Rodgers falling down, Seattle would have gone three straight games without a sack for the first time under Carroll.Avril had a huge month of October and second-year defensive end Frank Clark played extremely well in the weeks that Bennett was out with a knee injury. But in the past few weeks, their impact has diminished. The trio of Avril, Bennett and Clark has a combined 10 quarterback hits and one sack in the past four games.Seattle does not blitz extensively, putting most of the onus on the defensive line to get to the quarterback. In passing situations, Seattle has regularly chosen speed over size, using Cassius Marsh and Bennett on the inside, with Clark and Avril rushing from the edges. Its worked in stretches this season, but not recently.Theres no excuse. Weve got to get there, Avril said. (Green Bay) did some good things stalling us out in a sense. There are so many things you could blame it on but at the end of the day Im a professional athlete and I get paid to get to the quarterback. I have to get to the quarterback no matter the circumstances.Game notes Seattle placed FB Will Tukuafu (concussion) and RB Troymaine Pope (ankle) on injured reserve and signed RB Kelvin Taylor and LB Ronald Powell to the 53-man roster. Taylor had been on Seattles practice squad briefly earlier this season. Powell was signed off of Chicagos practice squad.---For more NFL coverage: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL Ray Allen Jersey .Y. -- Marcell Dareus and the Buffalo Bills defence made life miserable for Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco. George Hill Jersey . 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Its the middle of August in a league that craves pass-rushers, and 28-year-old Greg Hardy cant find a job.We all know why, of course, and its tough to dig up a reason to feel bad for him. Hardy paved his own path to air-conditioned August NFL purgatory with a series of grievous missteps. A domestic violence incident for which he has remained disturbingly unrepentant in public. A volatile 2015 season with the Dallas Cowboys in which he openly feuded with coaches on the sideline, aggravated teammates with his attitude and mustered only six sacks in 12 games.But at some point, the odds are, someone will sign Hardy.There is some substantial team interest in Greg, Drew Rosenhaus, Hardys agent, said Tuesday. I do believe he will be signed in the near future by either a team that suffers an injury on the defensive line or a club that realizes it simply needs more talent on the defensive front.A fair bit of agent spin and overconfidence live in that statement, so do some significant truths. This time of year, the reality for any unemployed NFL player who wants to work is that someone will get injured in a practice or a preseason game and open a job thats not currently open. And the reality for a pass-rusher who had 15 sacks in his most recent full season -- even if that was three years ago -- is that plenty of teams are always looking for pass-rushers.The Jacksonville Jaguars recently had Hardy in for a visit and an extensive workout. Sources familiar with their plans said they werent looking to sign Hardy at this time but rather to get a sense of his conditioning -- to see how he sounded in person and looked on the field in case they were to suffer an injury or some other setback at defensive end and decided to look for external solutions.After Junior Galettes latest season-ending injury, Washington discussed adding Hardy as well, but decided not to pursue him. At this point, the only team with which he has met face-to-face this offseason appears to be Jacksonville. Rosenhaus is doing the legwork trying to drum up interest from teams while Hardy works out in Davie, Florida, with NFL combine trainer Pete Bommarito.So what will it take at this point? What kind of internal hurdles will a teams decision-makers have to clear in order to bring Hardy into the fold? Desperation is likely to drive the process, but its clear from talking to NFL coaches and executives the past few weeks that teams have concerns that go beyond public relations.Its not what happened in his past, said one official whose team is not interested in Hardy. Its the way he reacted last year to everything that happened in his past that would concern me. If hed been a model citizen and played at a high level, hed still be in Dallas.But neither of those things occurred, and so a Cowboys team whose best two edge rushers are starting the season on drug suspensions has no interest in bringing him back. That says a lot -- especially to a league in which the Cowboys were the only team that seriously pursued him a year ago.The Cowboys people to whom I spoke about Hardy want to move on and dont seem to bear him any ill will. But they said the issue with Hardy last year wasnt effort. They believe he played hard for them, in spite of the lackluster numbers. People close to the situation say they think Hardys off-field baggage and the questions that lingered about his past became too great a distraction to allow him to focus effectively on football.dddddddddddd Basically, everything that had gone on and was still going on in his life away from the field was preventing him from concentrating enough to play the way Dallas expected him to play on Sundays.Has that changed? According to a May report by Pro Football Talk, Rosenhaus has spent a portion of this offseason informing NFL teams that Hardy has spent time in counseling sessions for anger management, temper management, domestic violence and evaluation for ADHD. The point of this is surely to try to convince teams the problems of 2015 wont resurface in 2016.Rosenhaus and Hardy also make the point that the player was understandably rusty after missing the final 15 games of the 2014 season and the first four of 2015 due to suspensions, and that he could be expected to play better this year without such a layoff. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made a similar point in Hardys defense when speaking to reporters at the combine in February.So you begin to see the ways in which a team could convince itself that Hardy is worth both the gamble and the PR hit that would come with signing a player whos perceived by many as having been insufficiently punished for a frightening domestic violence incident.And you look around and wonder who it could be. You look at teams that run a 4-3 defense, since Hardy seems to fit best as a traditional 4-3 defensive end. Jacksonville fits, as discussed earlier. Atlanta has been looking for pass-rush help, but its possible that the Falcons recent signing of Dwight Freeney takes them off this list. Detroit and New Orleans are pass-rush-hungry teams that run a 4-3.Cleveland is a 3-4 team in the hunt for pass-rushers, and its possible the Browns could fit Hardy into their scheme on the right deal. Buffalo is dealing with a couple of significant injuries in its front seven, and you know the coaches there arent scared of anything.You look at teams that?have confidence in their programs and their leadership. Its possible a team like New England, which just lost Rob Ninkovich for several weeks due to injury and has a ton of capital built up with its fan base, could sell a Hardy signing as a potentially beneficial bargain -- especially if Hardy, as its expected he must, signs a team-friendly deal packed with incentives.You look at Cincinnati, a 4-3 team that has made the playoffs five years in a row but cant get out of the first round. The Bengals havent shied away from difficult character cases in the past, because they know thats a good category in which to find bargains and because they believe in Marvin Lewis ability to hold everything together.The fact that a player of Hardys age and ability is still sitting around in mid-August without a job says everything you need to know about the position in which he has put himself. But at some point, you have to think someone will give him another chance, in spite of everything. Thats the way of the NFL world. Pass-rushers are always in demand, and someones always going to get hurt. ' ' '