"The skies were clear for Marshawn Lynch's first game as a Seahawk, the forecast hopeful but entirely uncertain.

Seattle was a team seeking to rekindle a running game that was more of a crawl the previous four years, while Lynch was a former Pro Bowler on a new team, hoping to make the most of a second chance at a first impression when the Seahawks played the Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago on Oct. 17 last year.

"It felt good," Lynch said of that game. "Just having a fresh start with a new team, but more, just curious to see how the chemistry between me and the team was going to work out.""