Hey one other thing I just realized re: the schedule: our division games are tilted towards the back half of the season.
Wk 6, Wk 9, Wk 11, Wk12, Wk 14, Wk 18
If you've got a brand new coaching staff and a brand new set of game plans, it's fantastic we don't face our own division until so late in the season, work out the kinks first before the money games
The Hawks made a weird schedule release video posted on fieldgulls that heavily features the now famous "W" glasses! I guess Chris Pratt is the voice of the glasses? It's really bad, unfortunately, but the credits are kinda funny at least.
The run of NFC North teams plus Rodgers/Jets should be an entertaining way to end the season. Good chance we impact that division race and a wild card spot probably between Lions and Packers. Plus Caleb and our new D should both have their feet under them by then (or Caleb will be hitting the rookie wall).
Also interesting to see what the League did to Caleb and the Bears late season. They get the Lions in Detroit on Thanksgiving, his first Thursday game, then at Niners, at Vikings, Lions again, then Seahawks on the day after Xmas (TNF), and finishing at Packers. All their division games in the last 8, with us and Niners jammed in there, and two Thursday/holiday games. Enough to make you cry.
That sounds realistic but I’m not ready to accept the idea that we’ll be swept by the Niners and Rams again. That would suck and ruin the year. Note, game 1 for both is in Seatown. Trust MM will have some surprises up his sleeve.
I'm glad that at least our first 2 games look "easy," as much an NFL game can look easy. There is an awful lot that needs to mesh with this team and starting out of the gate with say, San Fran and the Ravens would have been brutal. Outside of the veteran players, it's all new and unproven. We have a first time head coach, and everyone under him is entering their first year with the organization. It seemed at the time that Jodi Allen was lying through her teeth in her statement that Pete's "role change with the team" was mutual, and that he would still have an advisory role with the organization, but I think it would have gone a long way if he had. Even a little continuity would have seemed wise, but perhaps over the long term a full house cleaning will prove successful.
Clint Hurtt had to go and Shane Waldron probably needed to move on as well, but it's a scary proposition starting everything from scratch. Implementing a whole new offense and defensive scheme will surely take time. And coaches already bemoan the lack of padded practices and such before the season. I'm kind of considering 2024 a mulligan year for the Seahawks. Just work out the kinks and get better as the season goes on, and fans should be optimistic. In 2025 I'll expect something, but I'll judge this season more on where we start versus where we wind up. Anything better than that will be wonderful.
I know I should find the NFL schedule release more interesting than I do, but I just don't find it compelling at all. I like the later (than last year) bye week, but hate playing San Fran for the first time on a short week, but other than that, just line them up and let's play. Every week will be a measuring stick, and we'll see how the team evolves throughout the season, which is really what I'm most interested in.
The whole 'strength of schedule' is an interesting, but entirely speculative number, given the variability of win-loss records from year to year, and the attrition rate of starting QB's lately. I put no stock in that number whatsoever. I see a whole bunch of good teams we need to play, some of them twice, so having the 8th 'easiest' schedule is meaningless to me.
I sound like a grumpy ol' fart this morning. I'll have to work on that (or not).
Cool. Bronco's rookie up first. I count that as a Good Thing. Peyton will be demanding on Nix's mind set, forcing errors. Expect Woolen and Spoon will feast. 49ers at Week 6, first Division game? I count that as a Good Thing. I suspect Frisco will be wrestling with finding a way back from their all-out effort last year, coming up short. I'm not so sure McCaffrey and Kittle will take the same beatings so well. Trying to trade their star WRs won't buy extra effort, to boot. By week 9's Ram game, we should be as prepared as can be done. They will be tough, but so should we. Last year, I saw the 49ers as our measure. This year, it's the Rams. But after Detroit, everyone else will seem like pussies. That Team is on a Mission, this year. Great schedule, I say.
Just got tickets to see our Seahawks come to Atlanta in October from a supplier of mine! I was on the Falcons website looking for tix after I saw what the schedule was. But, the $240 price + $78 (!) Tickemaster fee (each) just was a bit more than I wanted to spend. I called him up, and he said "no problem, man. I got you."
I don't get a chance to see them in person much way down in this armpit of the country, so I am completely stoked and grateful! Go Hawks!
Good to see the NFL sort of realising the 'Hawks should be good viewing this year. MNF @ Lions is fun, and nicely slotted giving an extra bit of rest after a tough Miami game and short week into the "easy" Giants game. In turn whilst it's a short week into the TNF 49ers at least the Giants are a relatively easy team to come off of. I also like having that kind of routine mess up early, and the bye mid-season.
No big gaunlets either. As of right now we don't have anything worse than back-to-back hard games. Predictions are 4-2, 2-3 and 4-3 for a 10-8 season. However post-bye it could be annoying if AR12 is healthy and the Jets are pushing for the playoffs, whilst ending up right in the middle of the NFC North playoff scrap isn't ideal.
I don't try to think about who our opponents are, nor anything else about the schedule. Every other team and every game will be tough, each in their own ways. I only wonder whether the new systems will show their identities in ways we can see and feel. We have so many question marks, and yet so much promise.
What is your one, non-division, can’t miss game and why? Mine is Jets or Bears (obviously want to put a hurtin’ on their offense) but I tell ya, that week 3 Miami game is going to be interesting with their high octane offense and our new defense scheme likely taking a quarter or more of the season to take shape.
Week 1 - Broncos. I can't wait to see the new team and new scheme in action. Jets and Bears are both good ones too...especially if all the main players are healthy.
Literally no original thoughts here, your great readers as usual covered all the bases already. So this is repetitive…
Decent shot at starting 2-0 and 4-1. No guarantees in life but gotta love that.
Wk 10 bye week nearly perfect
Getting Falcons after the bye gives us the tiebreaker on that one (they may be a tougher out than usual)
Not great to have two Thursday night games but is great to have two mini-byes
Not great to end w/ two road games but only one will be frigid.
- Would prefer to get the Bears’ rookie QB early rather than with nearly a full season under his belt, but let’s see how the California kid likes playing in -10F.
Overall could be a lot worse, feeling better about 9-8 or 10-7
Our 3 “bonus” games against other 3rd place teams from last year (Broncos, Falcons, Giants) are all early season, and 2 at home. Win those, plus the Pats, and we start 4-3? Oh wait - I forgot - we own the Lions. 5-2.
Very good schedule. The first 6 weeks will be huge. Have a great chance to get off to a hot start. Will need it before a Niners, Falcons, Bills stretch.
Bears on Thursday night in the winter could be very tough. But the difficulty of games becomes much harder to project later in season when injuries can change teams dramatically.
I think playing Waldron gives us a slight advantage. He never seemed to make it hard for other defenses to figure us out. look what MM did to our offense last year.
Could be the worst weather possible is the best for us against the coddled and hyped warm weather pretty boy QB they’ve got. Say -10f, he may just fold up and beg for mercy
Hey one other thing I just realized re: the schedule: our division games are tilted towards the back half of the season.
Wk 6, Wk 9, Wk 11, Wk12, Wk 14, Wk 18
If you've got a brand new coaching staff and a brand new set of game plans, it's fantastic we don't face our own division until so late in the season, work out the kinks first before the money games
The Hawks made a weird schedule release video posted on fieldgulls that heavily features the now famous "W" glasses! I guess Chris Pratt is the voice of the glasses? It's really bad, unfortunately, but the credits are kinda funny at least.
https://www.fieldgulls.com/2024/5/16/24158298/seattle-seahawks-schedule-release-spoof-chris-pratt-riq-woolen-devon-witherspoon-charles-cross
The run of NFC North teams plus Rodgers/Jets should be an entertaining way to end the season. Good chance we impact that division race and a wild card spot probably between Lions and Packers. Plus Caleb and our new D should both have their feet under them by then (or Caleb will be hitting the rookie wall).
Also interesting to see what the League did to Caleb and the Bears late season. They get the Lions in Detroit on Thanksgiving, his first Thursday game, then at Niners, at Vikings, Lions again, then Seahawks on the day after Xmas (TNF), and finishing at Packers. All their division games in the last 8, with us and Niners jammed in there, and two Thursday/holiday games. Enough to make you cry.
Week 1 - Broncos at Seahawks, 1 PM Win 1-0
Week 2 - Seahawks at Patriots, 10 AM Win 2-0
Week 3 - Dolphins at Seahawks, 1 PM Loss 2-1
Week 4 - Seahawks at Lions (MNF) Loss 2-2
Week 5 - Giants at Seahawks, 1:25 PM Win 3-2
Week 6 - 49ers at Seahawks (TNF) Loss 3-3
Week 7 - Seahawks at Falcons, 10 AM Win 4-3
Week 8 - Bills at Seahawks, 1 PM Loss 4-4
Week 9 - Rams at Seahawks, 1:25 PM Loss 4-5
Week 10 - BYE
Week 11 - Seahawks at 49ers, 1 PM Loss 4-6
Week 12 - Cardinals at Seahawks, 1:25 PM Win 5-6
Week 13 - Seahawks at Jets, 10 AM Win 6-6
Week 14 - Seahawks at Cardinals, 1 PM Win 7-6
Week 15 - Packers at Seahawks (SNF) Win 8-6
Week 16 - Vikings at Seahawks, 1 PM Win 9-6
Week 17 - Seahawks at Bears (TNF) Win 10-6
Week 18 - Seahawks at Rams, TBD Loss 10-7
Looks like 10-7 for me, into the playoffs, and a first round loss.
That sounds realistic but I’m not ready to accept the idea that we’ll be swept by the Niners and Rams again. That would suck and ruin the year. Note, game 1 for both is in Seatown. Trust MM will have some surprises up his sleeve.
I'm glad that at least our first 2 games look "easy," as much an NFL game can look easy. There is an awful lot that needs to mesh with this team and starting out of the gate with say, San Fran and the Ravens would have been brutal. Outside of the veteran players, it's all new and unproven. We have a first time head coach, and everyone under him is entering their first year with the organization. It seemed at the time that Jodi Allen was lying through her teeth in her statement that Pete's "role change with the team" was mutual, and that he would still have an advisory role with the organization, but I think it would have gone a long way if he had. Even a little continuity would have seemed wise, but perhaps over the long term a full house cleaning will prove successful.
Clint Hurtt had to go and Shane Waldron probably needed to move on as well, but it's a scary proposition starting everything from scratch. Implementing a whole new offense and defensive scheme will surely take time. And coaches already bemoan the lack of padded practices and such before the season. I'm kind of considering 2024 a mulligan year for the Seahawks. Just work out the kinks and get better as the season goes on, and fans should be optimistic. In 2025 I'll expect something, but I'll judge this season more on where we start versus where we wind up. Anything better than that will be wonderful.
Exactly my thoughts. I hope they will look pretty good in the first few games but I will be thoroughly unsurprised if look a little lost in Sept/Oct.
I know I should find the NFL schedule release more interesting than I do, but I just don't find it compelling at all. I like the later (than last year) bye week, but hate playing San Fran for the first time on a short week, but other than that, just line them up and let's play. Every week will be a measuring stick, and we'll see how the team evolves throughout the season, which is really what I'm most interested in.
The whole 'strength of schedule' is an interesting, but entirely speculative number, given the variability of win-loss records from year to year, and the attrition rate of starting QB's lately. I put no stock in that number whatsoever. I see a whole bunch of good teams we need to play, some of them twice, so having the 8th 'easiest' schedule is meaningless to me.
I sound like a grumpy ol' fart this morning. I'll have to work on that (or not).
Week 10 Bye week is pretty nice.
My only other thought is that it seems like Delta is really trying to compete with Alaska in the Seattle market.
Cool. Bronco's rookie up first. I count that as a Good Thing. Peyton will be demanding on Nix's mind set, forcing errors. Expect Woolen and Spoon will feast. 49ers at Week 6, first Division game? I count that as a Good Thing. I suspect Frisco will be wrestling with finding a way back from their all-out effort last year, coming up short. I'm not so sure McCaffrey and Kittle will take the same beatings so well. Trying to trade their star WRs won't buy extra effort, to boot. By week 9's Ram game, we should be as prepared as can be done. They will be tough, but so should we. Last year, I saw the 49ers as our measure. This year, it's the Rams. But after Detroit, everyone else will seem like pussies. That Team is on a Mission, this year. Great schedule, I say.
Just got tickets to see our Seahawks come to Atlanta in October from a supplier of mine! I was on the Falcons website looking for tix after I saw what the schedule was. But, the $240 price + $78 (!) Tickemaster fee (each) just was a bit more than I wanted to spend. I called him up, and he said "no problem, man. I got you."
I don't get a chance to see them in person much way down in this armpit of the country, so I am completely stoked and grateful! Go Hawks!
Good to see the NFL sort of realising the 'Hawks should be good viewing this year. MNF @ Lions is fun, and nicely slotted giving an extra bit of rest after a tough Miami game and short week into the "easy" Giants game. In turn whilst it's a short week into the TNF 49ers at least the Giants are a relatively easy team to come off of. I also like having that kind of routine mess up early, and the bye mid-season.
No big gaunlets either. As of right now we don't have anything worse than back-to-back hard games. Predictions are 4-2, 2-3 and 4-3 for a 10-8 season. However post-bye it could be annoying if AR12 is healthy and the Jets are pushing for the playoffs, whilst ending up right in the middle of the NFC North playoff scrap isn't ideal.
I don't try to think about who our opponents are, nor anything else about the schedule. Every other team and every game will be tough, each in their own ways. I only wonder whether the new systems will show their identities in ways we can see and feel. We have so many question marks, and yet so much promise.
What is your one, non-division, can’t miss game and why? Mine is Jets or Bears (obviously want to put a hurtin’ on their offense) but I tell ya, that week 3 Miami game is going to be interesting with their high octane offense and our new defense scheme likely taking a quarter or more of the season to take shape.
Week 1 - Broncos. I can't wait to see the new team and new scheme in action. Jets and Bears are both good ones too...especially if all the main players are healthy.
Literally no original thoughts here, your great readers as usual covered all the bases already. So this is repetitive…
Decent shot at starting 2-0 and 4-1. No guarantees in life but gotta love that.
Wk 10 bye week nearly perfect
Getting Falcons after the bye gives us the tiebreaker on that one (they may be a tougher out than usual)
Not great to have two Thursday night games but is great to have two mini-byes
Not great to end w/ two road games but only one will be frigid.
- Would prefer to get the Bears’ rookie QB early rather than with nearly a full season under his belt, but let’s see how the California kid likes playing in -10F.
Overall could be a lot worse, feeling better about 9-8 or 10-7
Our 3 “bonus” games against other 3rd place teams from last year (Broncos, Falcons, Giants) are all early season, and 2 at home. Win those, plus the Pats, and we start 4-3? Oh wait - I forgot - we own the Lions. 5-2.
2-0 in Detroit the past 2 years. Need a hat trick!
Pretty favorable I think. Good bye week, great chance to have nice 9 week start with only 3 road games, division games late. 11-6.
Very good schedule. The first 6 weeks will be huge. Have a great chance to get off to a hot start. Will need it before a Niners, Falcons, Bills stretch.
Bears on Thursday night in the winter could be very tough. But the difficulty of games becomes much harder to project later in season when injuries can change teams dramatically.
Overall, this is a great schedule.
I think playing Waldron gives us a slight advantage. He never seemed to make it hard for other defenses to figure us out. look what MM did to our offense last year.
Definitely an advantage.
Bears are actually a team I’m really interested in this year. What a strong division the north is. Can’t wait to see it play out.
I’m just envisioning snow, injuries, a Thursday night game. Just a ton of variables that far out.
We can hope for a big global warming event to coincide with that game ;)
Could be the worst weather possible is the best for us against the coddled and hyped warm weather pretty boy QB they’ve got. Say -10f, he may just fold up and beg for mercy