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While the Seattle Seahawks are looking for a few sleepers to shine, they are holding out hope their new quarterback won’t flop. But with training camp coming soon, it’s a good time to look back at the 10 greatest Seahawks teams of all time.
Seattle joined the NFL as an expansion franchise in 1976. The Seahawks suffered through a 2-12 season, but quickly found their footing and earned back-to-back winning seasons in 1978 and 1979. And it only took until 1983 for the franchise to knock at the door of the Super Bowl.
Since then, the Seahawks have only one Super Bowl win to their name. But, yes, it should have been two. More on that later.
Away we go with the top 10 Seattle Seahawks teams of all time.
Two years after their Super Bowl appearance under Mike Holmgren, the Seahawks battled their way to a division title with six wins in their final eight regular-season games.
In the playoffs, Joe Gibbs had returned to coaching Washington, but this wasn’t one of his great teams. The Seahawks made it look worse than it was with two pick-sixes in the final 5:38 of the game. Seattle won, 35-14.
However, a trip to Green Bay for a division-round battle didn’t go nearly as well. The Seahawks hung around for most of the first half, but Ryan Grant’s 3-yard touchdown run made it 28-17, and the Packers cruised to a 42-20 win. The Seahawks couldn’t get Shaun Alexander rolling as he had just nine rushing attempts for 20 yards and a score.
After a 10-2 start, the Seahawks lost to the Rams, Cardinals, and 49ers down the stretch. They limped into the playoffs, but bounced back for a 17-9 Wild Card victory over the Eagles.
Then they made a stirring second-half comeback against the Packers. Trailing 21-3 at the break, Seattle rallied to within 28-23 on a 1-yard scoring run by Marshawn Lynch with 9:33 left in the game.
However, the Seahawks couldn’t move the football on their next possession. And Aaron Rodgers hit Davante Adams for 32 yards on 3rd-and-eight, helping the Packers run out the clock and secure the win.
It took a lot of bounce back for the Packers to get things together for this season. They were coming off the horrible late-game Super Bowl loss in 2014.
But they went 10-6 and earned a Wild Card berth. Then they found a way to get past the Vikings, 10-9, in the playoffs. Trailing 9-0 entering the fourth quarter, Russell Wilson hit Doug Baldwin from three yards out for a score. And Stephen Hauschka connected on a 46-yard field goal for a 10-9 lead. But this game will mostly be remembered for Blair Walsh missing a 27-yard chip shot with 26 seconds left in the game.
However, the Seahawks couldn’t turn it into a third straight Super Bowl appearance. Cam Newton and the Panthers built a 31-0 lead...
