The legend of Mike Macdonald’s road warrior Seattle Seahawks continues to grow. Coming off a heartbreaking loss at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Seahawks went into Jacksonville and responded again after a home loss with a big bounce back victory over one of the early darlings of the NFL season.

With the win, the Seahawks move to 4-2, with a 3-0 record on the road, and are now 10-1 under Macdonald when on the road. The home/road splits are frustrating, but this level of road dominance is astonishing, and really should allow Seahawks fans to dream big and...

Why yes, we have a few more Monday Night Football doubleheaders to get through, including the one involving the Seattle Seahawks and Houston Texans next week. As far as this week, we actually have a palatable twin-bill. The early game is the 4-1 Buffalo Bills at the 2-2 Atlanta Falcons, who will host the Seahawks in December in a potentially important showdown. Meanwhile, the 2-2 Chicago Bears are back from their bye week and face the 3-2 Washington Commanders, aka Seattle’s first opponent after its bye.

I think you all remember what happened the last time the Bears played the...

The first head coach firing of 2025 is here.

On Monday, the Tennessee Titans fired head coach Brian Callahan following a 1-5 start to the season, as reported by ESPN’s Turron Davenport. The Seattle Seahawks are set to take on the Titans at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium in Week 12.

Callahan’s firing comes just one day after a loss to Pete Carroll’s Las Vegas Raiders, who led by as many as 17 points in the game. The Raiders were up 10-0 at halftime, with former Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith throwing his seventh touchdown pass of the season near the end of...

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is inevitable.

The Seattle Seahawks took down the Jacksonville Jaguars on the strength of the defense plus their explosive passing game. The connection between Sam Darnold and Smith-Njigba is otherworldly at the moment, and has propelled Seattle back into first in their division.

Yes, Smith-Njigba now leads the NFL with 696 receiving yards, having passed the now injured Puka Nacua in Week 6. But there are many more metrics that Smith-Njigba leads, and it’s worth asking just exactly how good could JSN’s 2025 campaign be?

I want to look at the pace for his total volume stats, the...

The Seattle Seahawks live to make the home crowd disappointed. While they forgot that they’re not supposed to do that at Lumen Field, it is truly astonishing what they’ve managed to do away from Seattle under Mike Macdonald. A whopping 10 wins out of 11 on the road, the latest of which came 20-12 over the Jacksonville Jaguars, who’d won three in a row prior to Sunday. The Jags fans might be disappointed but a 4-2 start with wins over the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers should provide some perspective on how well they’ve performed to start the...

It got a little hairy there near the end of the game with all the chances that the Seattle Seahawks kept giving the Jacksonville Jaguars, but Mike Macdonald’s crew stepped up when it counted and walked away with the 20-12 road victory – the ninth in a row for the franchise.

Jacksonville got on the board first, scoring an easy walk-in touchdown on what looked like a coverage breakdown. Both defenses were playing good ball early on besides Seattle’s snafu. Then, the Seahawks offense broke out of their malaise when Sam Darnold found the red-hot Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a 61-yard...

Before we dive into the links together, I’d like to exercise a bit of privilege and personally note something partially obvious, but nonetheless worthwhile: Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the franchise player we’ve been looking for. He’s the best of our two favorite and dearly transactioned receivers, and combined with his uncanny route-running and controlled madness, the ceiling for Smith-Njigba is yet to be breached. From Rockwall, TX to your living room, Jaxon is undoubtebly the freakin’ man. Thank you for attending my ThadTalk.

In Today’s Links: oh gosh, you know how it goes Monday morning’s during the season. We’ve got takeaways,...

It’s Week 6, I know, but how early is truly too early to look at the playoff race? There are already some key head-to-head and division tiebreakers worth monitoring the rest of the way, so we might as well get this ball rolling with the Seattle Seahawks in the thick of the division race and, frankly, the No. 1 seed in the wide open NFC.

Thanks to their 30-19 win over the San Francisco 49ers, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the No. 1 seed in the conference. The 49ers are still No. 2 by virtue of their win over the...

No preamble. The Jacksonville Jaguars won the opening toss, elected to receive, and why the heck wouldn’t they? Atop their division with a 4-1 record, fresh off a win over the Kansas City Chiefs, at home against a Seattle Seahawks defense sans defensive backfield to speak of, who’d just surrendered 38 points a week earlier? You bet they wanted the ball more than Matt Hasselbeck in overtime.

Like Matt, bless his little heart evermore, the Jaguars did not score. They threw it to the right team at least — but they didn’t score, didn’t win, didn’t take advantage of Seattle...

The San Francisco 49ers lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but that is secondary to their long-term loss of their defensive leader.

Fred Warner, the star middle linebacker and one of the NFL’s premier players regardless of position, was the victim of his own teammate falling into him. The end result was a graphic ankle injury and a cast on his right foot. The worst fears were confirmed after he was carted to the locker room, and Warner is done for the year.

The 49ers already are without Nick Bosa for the remainder of the year with an ACL tear,...

The Detroit Lions stumbled out of the gates with a fairly one-sided loss to the Green Bay Packers and have since won four straight, scoring at least 34 points every time. I guess they don’t totally miss Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn that much. They are very banged up in the secondary (including former Seahawks CB D.J. Reed getting placed on injured reserve), and that seems like a problem versus Patrick Mahomes.

This has not been a great start to the season for the Chiefs, who stumbled to an 0-2 record for the first time ever under Mahomes, clawed their...

Win by any means necessary, and the Seattle Seahawks did just that.

Seattle’s defensive front was tremendous, the offense hit enough explosives in the passing game, and the Seahawks did benefit from some wayward Trevor Lawrence throws, horrible special teams, and some bad drops by Jacksonville Jaguars receivers. The end result is a 20-12 win that means so much given the tightness of the NFC West race.

Last week they lost a classic, this week they won a slog. It doesn’t matter how you win; this ain’t college football. It’s time for Winners and Losers, which is a lot more...