How low do you think the Seahawks can go in case the season doesn’t go as expected?
Let’s do a little something different regarding the predicted success of the 2025 Seattle Seahawks.
Two years ago I did a discussion post asking everyone what the ceiling was for what would prove to be Pete Carroll’s final Seahawks team. Here’s what I wrote about why I didn’t do a “what’s the floor?” question:
In my opinion, every team’s floor is pretty much “worst record” or “one of the worst records in the league” because too many bad things can happen even to greatly talented teams.
A series of injuries to key players, bad bounces, controversial calls, and other moments of misfortune can turn a Super Bowl contender into a cellar dweller. It is inevitable that the Seahawks are going to be impacted by injuries to some degree, because that’s an inevitability across the league. On the flip side, not every team’s ceiling is the Super Bowl. Rosters lacking in high-end talent (especially at quarterback) have a pretty defined ceiling, hence you won’t be seeing anyone sensible backing the Arizona Cardinals to win it all.
I’m bringing the floor back for this year.
Having perused the win-loss thread from a few days ago, it’s clear that many Field Gulls commenters expect the Seahawks to reach the playoffs. Many of the comments I read were in the range of 10-13 wins, which (outside of another 10-7 season in a deep conference) should be enough for the postseason.
The Vegas over/under is 7.5 wins, which I suspect Seahawks fans believe will be comfortably exceeded. What is your floor for the 2025 Seahawks? How low do you think the Seahawks could go if things don’t go as well as expected? Is it still a playoff team in your scenario? That means anything from Klint Kubiak not being the wunderkind offensive coordinator, John Benton not being the savior offensive line coach, Grey Zabel not turning into Steve Hutchinson 2.0. out of the gate, Sam Darnold not living up to his Minnesota Vikings season, etc.
We’re at the time of year where we anticipate everything will improve even incrementally, but none of that should be assumed. There will likely be a mix of good and bad. Perhaps the offensive line does improve but the defense doesn’t take that big leap as hoped under Mike Macdonald. Or the rookie draft class is unable to make much of a positive impact but Byron Murphy II significantly increases his productivity in year two. Perhaps Cooper Kupp and DeMarcus Lawrence go into age- and injury-related decline and don’t contribute as much as hoped.
Make your case in the comments for the worst case outcome for this year’s Seahawks. Don’t include serious injuries to key players in your reasoning since that can be applied to every NFL team.
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