Field Gulls
The Seattle Seahawks had a somewhat unclean performance against a bottom-dwelling opponent for the second week in a row. However, unlike last week’s 30-24 win over the lowly Tennessee Titans, the Seahawks didn’t have to be sharp across the board to easily handle the Minnesota Vikings. While the offense sputtered at times, the defense was sparkling and ruthless in shutting the Vikings offense down, clinching a 26-0 victory and a first shutout since the 2015 season. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the Seahawks have won three straight home games and have already surpassed last year’s meager win total at Lumen Field. Getting more home games in January will surely have to involve winning their final two regular season home dates versus the Indianapolis Colts and especially the Los Angeles Rams.
We’ll have plenty of time to dissect those matchups. What better way to start a December to remember than an Enemy Reaction? Daily Norseman is our source of opposition game thread goodness, and while we try and show positive opposition reactions to good plays by their team, this one was admittedly a little hard to pull off.
The Vikings can’t realistically fire Adofo-Mensah because there’s almost no evidence that dismissing a general manager while keeping the head coach leads to organizational success. And moving on from O’Connell makes even less sense; if fired, he’d be hired immediately and almost certainly thrive elsewhere. It could mirror the mistake of letting Sam Darnold walk.
Staying the course with McCarthy is its own gamble, because, without exaggeration, McCarthy has been one of the worst statistical quarterbacks in league history through six starts. He might simply be a miss, no different than Josh Rosen, Trey Lance, Zach Wilson, and other first-round quarterbacks who never developed. Busts happen.
Keeping everything intact — same front office, same coaching setup, same quarterback — risks inviting a near-identical result in 2026 and drifting into the “definition of insanity” territory.
As for signing a free-agent quarterback in March, that path is familiar. It’s the same method that brought Kirk Cousins to Minnesota, and any veteran available on the open market arrives with a limited ceiling. That’s precisely why the...
