Field Gulls
The Seattle Seahawks have officially punched their ticket to the 2025 postseason. We don’t know yet what seed, and likely won’t know until the final game of the season. But they are going, with as good a chance of making some noise as we’ve seen in some time.
The NFC itself has taken some shape this weekend as well, with the Dallas Cowboys being eliminated from The Dance. There will be minimal shakeup over the next two weeks, so it’s time to rank the Seahawks potential playoff opponents. First up: desirability
The Packers suddenly look like the most obvious one-and-done in the NFC. What a crazy unfortunate turn of events for them. With Jordan Love and Micah Parsons, this was going to be my second-least desired matchup for Seattle. Without them… Green Bay has lost to two playoff teams in a row.
It’s incredibly unlikely they’d miss the playoffs outright. It’s just as unlikely that the current version of this team is going to advance their way to face the Seahawks, and it would be a lopsided matchup if they did.
They’re starting to play better, aren’t they? On the whole, they’re actually not. Bryce Young threw 3 TD on 20 pass attempts against the Rams, and they forced three interceptions. That’s a recipe for playoff success. On either side of that, they’ve lost to the New Orleans Saints twice. Rico Dowdle has come back down to earth, Chuba Hubbard is very fun to say, I don’t know. These guys are interesting, but not intimidating.
Carolina did beat Tampa Bay, and Bryce Young to Tet McMillan has become impressive, but they’re not trustworthy enough, especially if they have to go on the road. I’ll take the Panthers number one.
What a Saturday game! Still – for matchup and quarterback purposes, we’d happily take Chicago. The Bears have a wonderful run game – 2nd best in the league. That plays straight into the strength of Seattle once again – they’re 4th in the NFL in run defense and only Sean McVay has found any true weaknesses.
Once those two cancel out, Caleb Williams is the QB on this list I trust the least. Williams has six games with fewer than 6.2 Yards per Attempt. Sam Darnold has one.
Here’s Williams dancing literal circles around the NFL, which finally worked against the Anemic Bay Packers but would work far, far less against Mike Macdonald and Nick Emmanwori.
May be a controversial take to some. This could also age terribly in two weeks. But I do not fear any of these seven offenses except Los Angeles, and that includes San Francisco. They are the strangest, most fraudulent 11-win team I think I’ve ever seen. Are we congratulating them for beating the Indianapolis Colts on MNF? The team without both starting tackles, their starting...
