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The NFL schedule is out. How many games will the Seahawks win?
The Seattle Seahawks regular season schedule has dropped. If you haven’t seen it already, maybe you can hop over here for the full rundown.
It is silly to make win-loss predictions in mid-May when we haven’t even had mandatory minicamp yet and so many more changes (some of which are bad, like injuries) can be made to team rosters. That isn’t stopping us whatsoever, which is why today’s discussion is all about calling your shot now so we can review your predictions by the end of the season. In fact, maybe we’ll review these predictions in September for opportunities to revise our predictions up or down!
On the latest episode of the HawksZone Rundown podcast, yours truly joined hosts Ryan MacMillan and Bryce Coutts to make our early W-L picks. As expected, we all believe the Seahawks will be in playoff position and improve upon last year’s 10-7 mark.
Ryan MacMillan: 6-1 at the bye, 12-5 overall with losses to the Rams, Buccaneers, 49ers, Falcons, and a mystery fifth team because the math wasn’t done right and none of us caught it on the live broadcast.
Bryce Coutts: 5-2 at the bye, 11-6 overall with losses to the Steelers, Texans, Commanders, Rams, Falcons, and Panthers.
Mookie Alexander: 4-3 at the bye, 11-6 overall with losses to the 49ers, Buccaneers, Texans, Commanders, Falcons, and Panthers.
Yes. I’m calling my shot early. I think the Seahawks are sweeping the Rams, who will take a step back not because of their improving defense, but the potential Matthew Stafford age- and injury-related decline.
That’s the general overview. I did have this to add at the end of our discussion:
“I think what’s inevitable is that the Seahawks are going to have a really really good win against a very good team—we’ve had it pretty much every year. And they’re going to have a really annoying loss to a bad team or mediocre team, but that’s not unique to the Seahawks. We’ve seen Super Bowl contenders just drop absolute clunkers for no particular reason other than just randomness in the NFL.
“It happens in other sports. You could have the best team in the NBA lose to a lottery team, or a Major League Baseball team get swept in a three-game series. I don’t think the Yankees are losing to the Rockies any time soon, but if you randomly matched them up nine times, the Rockies may be able to get a few games out of them. And then there’s hockey and other sports. It’s just that football’s got such a small sample size that the results have a greater impact.”
Anyway, Seattle is going 20-0 and winning the Super Bowl.
We make our predictions at the 43:11 mark, but we also discuss the cornerback visits from Shaq Griffin and Rasul Douglas at the beginning of the show, followed by Pete Carroll’s interesting Seattle Sports 710 remarks regarding his departure from Seattle, and...
