SEAHAWKS-RAMS FINAL SCORE
🚨SEASON ENDING SPOILERS
When the NFL extended the season to 17 games, fans debated whether or not 10-7 would be more like going 10-6 or 9-7 because it felt like there was a significant gap between those two final records. After Sunday’s finale, I’ve never been more convinced that 10-7 feels like 6-10.
The Seahawks beat Jimmy Garoppolo 30-25 to finish the season 10-7, same as the Rams, and neither team appears to be as threatening as the NFC’s top contenders for the Super Bowl. The only difference is that L.A. is going to the postseason and Seattle isn’t.
Based on how the Rams defense played — unlike their offense, mostly the starters — L.A. could end up winning as many playoff games as Seattle.
Saving his best for after the playoffs were out of reach, Geno Smith added 4 touchdowns to his season tally (as many as he had most months) and said after the game that the Seahawks are “heading in the right direction…” with the players that they already have.
If ownership feels that John Schneider is still the right person to be the GM (I have little doubt they do) and Schneider agrees with Geno about Seattle’s personnel, then so be it. However, let that decision have already been made prior to today: What would be in the worst interest of the Seahawks would be if Schneider agrees with Geno based on what happened in Week 18.
The game had no stakes for L.A.. Please don’t stake the future of the Seattle franchise on (barely) beating Jimmy Garoppolo in front of several thousand Rams fans.
Seahawks 2024 schedule results:
Seahawks 26, Bo Nix 20
Seahawks 23, Jacoby Brissett 20 (OT)
Seahawks 24, Skylar Thompson 3
Jared Goff 42, Seahawks 29
Daniel Jones 29, Seahawks 20
Brock Purdy 36, Seahawks 24
Seahawks 34, Kirk Cousins 14
Josh Allen 31, Seahawks 10
Matthew Stafford 26, Seahawks 20 (OT)
Seahawks 20, Brock Purdy 17
Seahawks 16, Kyler Murray 6
Seahawks 26, Aaron Rodgers 21
Seahawks 30, Kyler Murray 18
Jordan Love 30, Seahawks 13
Sam Darnold 27, Seahawks 24
Seahawks 6, Caleb Williams 3
Seahawks 30, Jimmy Garoppolo 25
So every fan here is confident that the Seahawks can bring back the same players, maybe change a couple of coaches, and compete in 2025 against the 15-2 and 14-3 teams next season?
The NFL doesn’t work in a vacuum in which we’re supposed to expect that the other 31 teams are staying the same or getting worse and only Seattle is going to improve. Not only do the Seahawks need to improve themselves, they need to become as good as the great teams AND remain ahead of the other mid-level teams (Moons, Packers, Bucs, Falcons, 49ers, Cardinals, etc.) between now and a year from now.
Or they have to be serious enough about a long-term Super Bowl goal that they’re willing to make necessary moves in 2025 to become that good in 2-3 years.
Believing that the team is basically already good enough and must have just been unlucky or “screwed by the refs” and “we almost had them” is exactly why the end of this season feels the same as the end of the previous eight or nine seasons.
The Seahawks have to break the cycle at some point, at any cost necessary.
I was at the game today — which is why the newsletter is coming out a little later than usual — and also why I don’t feel I have as good of a perspective on what happened on Sunday as many of you probably do. In that way, it was actually good for me then that the game had no playoff stakes.
I usually watch football while I’m surrounded by information about the game through TV and the Internet, so I’ll have to watch the broadcast copy to catch up to all of you.
The season is over. Long live the season.
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Wins and losses, great plays and dud plays, all that aside one aspect of this season has been better for me than most of the last six or seven. I joined seaside Joe almost a year ago, in the off season, and I have to say I learned a lot more about every aspect of the game and the team, thanks to SSJ and all the members comments. Come what may, I’m in for 2025.
Well, I think we NEED to improve, and should consider improving every where we can every year, every month, and every week. From changing management, coaching, players and hopefully, eventually, ownership when they sell. This entire coaching staff save 1 was put together very late last year, and they were still figuring out what they were about when we entered free agency and the combine. They didn’t even go to the combine. Perhaps this lack of truly understanding what system and style the coaches were still settling upon is one reason free agency choices were such a disaster last year,and maybe led to some poor decisions in the draft.
I think with a year under his belt as head coach, MM can make decisive decisions to change and improve the coaching staff. I think the next 48 hours will see some coaches let go in favor of coaches who might be a better fit for MM and his system he wants to implement.
Players on the team today then need to be evaluated on their performance with their cost against the cap to decide if their value equals or exceeds their cost. After parsing the roster with cuts, evaluate which players should get contracts and extensions in light of what could be obtained via free agency, trade and the draft.
So the first decision coming tomorrow or Tuesday will be Grubb. Is he gone or does he get another year?
On another note, about 2 or 3 plays before DK’s TD catch he had the opportunity to catch a TD pass that hit him in both hands in stride and he dropped it. To me this has always been his biggest flaw. He has too many instances of dropping passes that many other great receivers make. They got the TD a few plays later, but this seems to be a problem he will always have and not something I think you pay $30 plus million for. Your thoughts?