Field Gulls
It was built up as the biggest game in years for the Seattle Seahawks, and it truly felt like it. Despite everything that went wrong against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, the Seahawks found themselves with a field goal opportunity to pull off an epic win, and take a stranglehold on the NFC West. Instead, Seattle fell 21-19, and will have to regroup after one of the more complex defeats in the Mike Macdonald era.
Let’s break it down.
This is one of the more emotionally conflicting losses that I can remember in all my years of watching the Seahawks. It feels like, no matter what your take or belief on Seattle was, you have more ammunition after this loss.
For the glass half empty camp, there’s plenty to hate on. McVay had Macdonald on the run in the first quarter. Klint Kubiak reverted back to his San Francisco game shenanigans when it came to play calling. Sam Darnold had one of the worst games of his career, in another “big game.”
For the glass half full camp, there’s plenty to keep belief in this team and this season still being special. Macdonald whooped McVay’s ass for the majority of the game. The defense continues to look Super Bowl caliber. Despite the horror show from Sam Darnold, he and the offense kept fighting back and probably win that game if not for an all-time punt.
So I don’t really have any answers to the biggest questions with the Seahawks. It sucks to lose, but I feel like these questions will be answered in the upcoming two months.
I think the Los Angeles Rams are good enough to win the Super Bowl. They may have the necessary ingredients (four blue chip offensive players), a good enough defense as a collective, and a Super Bowl winning head coach.I also think that the Seattle Seahawks are a more talented team and that they will inevitably surpass the Rams at some point in the near future. The question is whether the Seahawks can surpass them this year, or if that moment will arrive in 2026.
This Rams team has championship DNA and a psychological edge over the Seahawks franchise. If Seattle wants to be the man, they have to beat the man. Until they do, I believe that the Rams are the favorites to not only win the NFC West, but the NFC.
While the Rams may have a leg up on the Seahawks now, the schedule that these two teams will face before the meet up again in Seattle are drastically different.
Los Angeles survived the Seahawks, but it is just a continuation of murderers row. After defeating Seattle and San Francisco, the Rams will host a desperate Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad on Sunday Night Football this week. After that, they’ll hit the road and travel to...
