Field Gulls
The wait is finally over. We have real, regular-season information on the 2025 Seattle Seahawks. Sam Darnold, Klint Kubiak’s offense, the Jalen Milroe package, all of it was unveiled Sunday afternoon.
It sucked.
0-1 is how Seattle starts the season, and there were Winners and Losers (besides the 49ers winning and the Seahawks losing). Let’s get to them!
Jaxon Smith-Njigba. What a strange conversation this offseason about him and Cooper Kupp, the loss of DK Metcalf, and a “prototypical WR1”. It seems, a very good wide receiver is friggin a very good wide receiver. Going 9-124 (with one lost fumble, though), he was every bit as effective as his strongest moments of last season.
The Defensive Line. I’m now officially sold (re-sold?) that this unit is the strength of the team. My goodness. The obvious highlights include Leonard Williams picking up exactly where he left off last year, but across the board these guys played some solidly disruptive football. Say what you want about how the game ended, but the West Coast’s best player had 69 yards rushing and 3.1 Yards per Carry. They held up.
Julian Love. For the first sack of the 2025 season, AND first blocked field goal, you get a Win! And what a sack it was, beating Christian McCaffrey inside for a 12-yard loss. Juicy.
Byron Murphy. On the previously mentioned sack, Murphy was already in the backfield of his own accord, providing clean-up duty. I wanted to give him a shout-out here because he’s the 16th overall pick from last year, and his relationship with stats is always going to be complicated.
Ernest Jones. For the first interception of the 2025 season, YOU get a win! Also, holy vertical leaps, batman.
Josh Jobe. For making Brock Purdy look like the very average quarterback he is, congratulations on interception number two of the day and season.
Demarcus Lawrence led the team with two Tackles for Loss, so that’s pretty cool I guess.
Jason Myers. If you take only one thing away from that game, it should be that the kicker superiority resides in Seattle. Laughably so.
Anthony Bradford hype. This hurts so bad. I wanted as much as anyone to believe, but some things can only change so quickly. He was better, definitely better, than the dreadful moments of 2024, but two big whiffs in the first quarter alone kept the Seahawks from scoring.
Coby Bryant in coverage. Similarly, two misses in coverage on the first drive helped account for the 49ers’ opening touchdown drive.
Whoever was guarding George Kittle. If he hadn’t left, this score probably would have been even more lopsided.
Kenneth Walker. Clearly he has lost his grip on the starting/primary back role. One can only remain unavailable for so long in this new Macdonald/Kubiak regime. Besides that, he had 24 total yards on 13 touches, which averages out to be a pile of crap per carry.
The second half run game in general. Uninspiring, ineffective. Like...
