In his first year with the Seattle Seahawks, Mike Macdonald coached his team to a 10-7 finish, just missing out on the playoffs. That is a best first season win total for a new head coach in franchise history, better than Chuck Knox’s 9-7 finish in 1983, and better than Mike Holmgren’s 9-7 season in 1999. I suspect any long time Seahawk fan over the age of 40 would probably agree that joining the ranks of Holmgren and Knox is pretty good company. Therefore, I think this is pretty cool.

On the flip side, the Seattle Seahawks also achieved being the first team in NFL history to go 7-1 on the road, and not make the playoffs. That kinda sucks and home losses to the Giants, Rams, and Vikings sting more now knowing that each of these matches were very winnable for Seattle. Thus we have the highs and lows of this season pretty much summed up.

These 2024-25 Seattle Seahawks officially concluded their season by winning a game played in Los Angeles against the division winning Rams who started a backup quarterback nicknamed Pornstar Jimmy by Stephen A Smith, and a bunch of other backups because Sean McVay was too chicken shit to play Matt Stafford and other key starters. Even if this win wasn’t a decisive as I would have preferred, it felt nice that Seattle was able to get the W, and thus finish their season tied with the Rams at 10-7. I will take that.

It is good to see Seattle finish first year head coach Mike Macdonald on a positive two game win streak, and to feel momentum heading into the offseason where change will be inevitable. I am a big believer positive momentum carrying forth into a new offseason. The taste of narrowly missing out on the playoffs should sting, but the idea that they are building up towards something special should also be sensed. 10-7 is the best regular season finish that this team has had since 2020. That should mean something.

On a personable level, it also felt good to watch Geno Smith end his season on a high note, playing a statistically great game, and making a bunch of key incentives that has made him $6 million richer. Geno wasn’t perfect this season, but watching him getting beaten to a pulp on Sundays while playing behind a subpar offensive line and extremely suspect play calling made me more empathic to his cause.

Instead of recapping this game, I am more inclined to kick things forward into the new year focusing on what I feel this team needs to do in 2025 in order to get closer towards being a true contender. It is a very simple list of three things I would like to see happen.

I am not really interested in rehashing all of what transpired in 2024, as I think their season can be summed up in two easy sentences. They started off hot in September, but chilled very quickly by October. As the season wore on, their defense improved dramatically, but their offense fell off in a lackluster manner.

Heading into the 2025 Season, I think the Seattle Seahawks have a roster with enough talent to compete for the playoffs. Some will debate that, but I am actually very bullish on the talent that John Schneider has built up over the past three years. I think they are one more productive offseason away from taking the next step, but if you want to disagree with that, you are welcome to it.

I also firmly believe that this team has a head coach in Mike Macdonald who is, indeed, a pretty sharp defensive mind fully capable of out-scheming opponents. In that, however, I also firmly believe he needs to be paired with a sharp offensive coordinator who will better carry out a scheme that compliments his defense. For this organization to truly take it to the next level, finding this offensive coach is an absolute must this offseason.

I do not believe that Ryan Grubb proved to be a good match for Mike Macdonald, at all, and it would be in the best interest of this team (and probably Grubb himself) for them to move in a different direction. I actually put this as a higher matter of importance above the state of the offensive line, but more on that in a minute.

For now, I think that any talk of Macdonald being a questionable hire and John Schneider perhaps needing to be on the hot seat is impulsive noise from factions of the fanbase and media that are perhaps a bit too spoiled in the PNW with a decade and a half of Seattle football being meaningful in December. John Schneider is one of the most respected general managers in the league who routinely hits in the draft and finds value through trades and waiver wires. As already mentioned, Mike Macdonald is just the third head coach in Seahawks history to start his career here with a winning record in year one.

Bad organizations make bad decisions by listening to overreacting fans. Good organizations do a good job at seeing the bigger picture clearly, know when to be patient caring forth, and when to move on when something clearly is not working. I don’t suspect that Jody Allen is ready to move on from John Schneider when it appears that he got the head coaching hire right, and this coming draft looks like a good one to address the issues with the offensive line.

Could I be wrong on this? Sure, but I am pretty confident that I won’t be. We shall see.

What I do see, however, is three very simple aspects of the offense that I feel this team should address in order of importance. If this organization can nail these the right way, I think Seattle can be well positioned to win the NFC West in 2025. They are as follows.

Pair Mike Macdonald With A Bright Offensive Coach Who Fits His Vision

After getting hired in the Winter of 2024, Mike Macdonald stated that his vision for the Seattle Seahawks was to be a tough, physical team that played great defense, ran the ball well, and was a team that nobody wanted to play. His words made me think of the Baltimore Ravens, and the Michigan Wolverines, two football programs where his roots stem from. It was an exciting thought in my mind to envision something similar being built in Seattle, and it still is.

The biggest problem of the 2024 season was that Ryan Grubb really could not bring that offensive part of Macdonald’s vision together. Try as he might have, I think his instincts as a play caller was to abandon the run too easily whenever the defense showed faint signs of struggle, and then when he did lean into the run, and it would start working, his impulse was to often abandon it for his favored passing attack. The result of this often felt very disjointed as a product.

Honestly speaking, his play calling might have the worst that I have seen out of a Seahawk offense since the 1990’s. It teased with the passing attack, at times, but it never found consistency. He play called as if he had peak Payton Manning and the best offensive line in football, and he had neither of that.

I don’t really want to get down into the muck of the offensive line, either. Run blocking is much easier for offensive linemen to do together than pass blocking and Seattle had, for the most part, guys in the interiors of their offensive line who were more apt to be better run blockers in this league than pass protectors. Grubb just failed to device a scheme to suit them as an offensive line. It is that simple.

Grubb was more inclined to lean into a veteran quarterback, and that was what he put his trust into. The result was as big of a mixed bag from Geno Smith as you could find in a quarterback. Sure, his passing yardage went up, and so did his completion percentage, but his interceptions went dramatically up, as well.

Geno’s red zone interceptions lost us games this year that were winnable. That said, I am significantly more willing to place greater blame on Grubb for riding with this impulsive pass happy approach than I will for Geno throwing the amount of picks that he did, even these critical ones (although Geno isn’t totally absolved, more on that later).

Had Grubb adopted a more committed approach to running the ball, the offensive line could have stabilized better and we could have seem more games like they had in Arizona than what we got against the Bills, Packers, and 49ers at home. I truly believe this.

Even worse, as the season wore on, Grubb’s offense displayed tells to defenses that he simply did not do a good enough of a job altering and adjusting. He would substitute running backs where it became obvious that it was a pass play. Eventually, defenses stopped playing single high safeties because they knew Grubb would stay passing out of two high looks instead of challenging with the run. There were times in games where cameras caught Mike Macdonald looking dumbfounded when Seattle was on offense, and there were times where key offensive players displayed meltdowns on the sidelines.

Grubb also never committed enough to a play action approach to help keep defenders honest, and his compulsion to primarily play call out of shotgun made it harder to run the ball effectively. Simply put, he made life harder for his cheaply put together offensive line instead of easier, and he put undo pressure on Geno Smith to play perfect football practically all of the time. This is not good coaching.

So, I do not want to hear bringing up the state of the offensive line being a prime excuse for Ryan Grubb who was hired late in the hiring process of coaches last Winter because Seattle waited out Macdonald’s hire until after the AFC Championship game. Seattle took a shot on a college coordinator from the PNW who fans would recognize the name, and they gave it a shot. It did not work out, and it is that simple.

But do not use the offensive line as a reason to defend what Grubb was in Seattle this year.

This league is filled with subpar offensive lines. Minnesota does not have a great line, but they found ways to be wonderfully balanced with Sam Darnold at the helm. Seattle failed to find this was Grubb leading the offense. There is nothing in this season with Grubb that warrants his return. For me, it would be a stunner if he is given another go at it in 2025.

Instead, it is my biggest hope that Seattle goes a very different direction, and they bring in a guy who actually understands NFL defenses really well, and will know how to attack them on every level with the talent this team has on its roster. Who that person is, I don’t know. I am open to options, but I just need him to partner well with Macdonald and be in sync with the head coach’s vision of seeing this team being a tough, hard-nosed team that nobody wants to play.

The guy could even come in house with passing coordinator Jake Peetz, who the Seahawks pried away from Sean McVay with the Rams, and is said to be a bit of a hot commodity. Peetz has bounced around the league and has a track record out of getting career years out of Dereck Carr with the Raiders as QB coach, and Christian McCaffrey as a running back coach with the Panthers. He was a guy that McVay valued in Los Angeles, and was sorta sore to see leave for Seattle. He might be the top choice here to replace Grubb, should they move on, if his relationship is good with Macdonald.

But perhaps what Macdonald most needs is a proven coordinator with pelts on his wall who will truly act as a second head coach on the team. The guy who really runs the offense much like Steve Spagnuolo runs the defense for Andy Reid in Kansas City. Spagnuolo was a failed head coach but his defenses have always been stellar whenever he’s been a coordinator.

Perhaps Seattle reaches out to Frank Reich who didn’t really cut it as a head coach in Carolina or Indianapolis, but was a good offensive coordinator for the Super Bowl winning Eagles in 2018. During that year, the Eagles were an exciting dynamic running team that offered an explosive passing attack downfield. Reich was the one that Eagles fans most gave credit towards, and were bemoaning his departure to Indy, afterwards. Their offense fell off quickly in the seasons to follow, and there was regime change sorta after winning the title.

Perhaps Reich is someone who could come in and be content with essentially being given full control of the offense, and partnering up with Macdonald long term in order to win titles together. He has a demeanor that is players like, and I can imagine meshing well with Macdonald.

Personality is also an important thing to consider. I have seen Josh McDaniels as a suggested name, and he has been a way better play caller than head coach, but I don’t know if he is a good culture guy. Seattle, under the ownership of Jody Allen, still feels like a destination that values positive culture in the building, and I don’t think there was much positives that ever came out of McDaniels as a culture guy.

There will be other names to consider. I won’t go through the list of potential candidates, although Doug Pederson just got let go in Jacksonville and grew up in Ferndale. Would he be enticed to return to the PNW as a high paid coordinator? My hunch is that he will take a year off and wait out an opportunity to be a head coach again. Winning a Super Bowl as a head coach probably equates to not wanting to suck it up and retreat towards a coordinator role, but we shall see.

The important thing to find the right guy who is smart enough to properly go after NFL defenses, and meshes well with the head coach and players. Ultimately, this has got to be the goal, and Seattle must nail this hire this offseason if they do not believe Grubb is up for it.

Invest Properly With Fixing The Offensive Line

I have said this a few times, but it bares repeating. The NFL has offensive line problems league wide. Building great offensive lines is increasingly more difficult to do. The talents in college are more apt to be on defensive lines than offensive lines, as sacks lead to more dollars than pancake blocks do.

Also, all you bleeding hearts who have complained about Seattle’s offensive line for years can thank the last collective bargaining agreement that the player’s union forged for fucking up the ability of teams to physically practice in ways they had in the past that better build cohesion with linemen playing together. Nowadays it is paddy cakes on the field in August, and the early portion of the regular NFL season is a routine clown show for offenses to figure out their units. It literally is what it is, so we all have to deal with it in degrees.

That said, in 2024, Seattle had the cheapest offensive line in football, and it showed. Personally, I don’t blame the front office for pulling most of their resources on the defensive side to fix what had truly became an awful defense in the last three years of Pete Carroll’s time here, but now they need to buck up and do the same for the offense with their offensive line.

If I were the general manager of this team, I would most likely spend big on one quality veteran guard or center on the free agent market, and I would be open to trading for a player should one be available by that means. I would then look to the draft for a couple more. The draft next Spring appears to be promising for guards and tackles who could convert to a guard. Getting two of them feels necessary.

This won’t be a wildly exciting take for many fans, but I would also be willing to leave open the possibility that there exists a young player (or players) already on this roster that by simply moving onto another offensive coach, could be developed into a decent starter in 2025. Perhaps Christian Haynes is better served converting to a center and becomes an upgrade there over Olu Oluwatimi. Perhaps Anthony Bradford or Sataoa Laumea takes a big step forward as a player with a new approach on offense towards being run heavier. While it is easy to look at the Seattle’s line and proclaim that they need at least three new starters there, perhaps there is more potential there now than most fans are seeing, but they just haven’t been coached properly enough, or the scheme hasn’t committed enough towards what they do best. Honestly, I think this could be as big of a case as any for why this line was this bad in 2024.

At any rate, if John Schneider goes into this offseason shopping cheap again in free agency and then waiting to the third or fourth round before taking another guard, the public outcry for his job will almost certainly be at the highest point it has ever been, and it was pretty high with some through the course of this last season. Therefore, for the sake of sanity throughout the fanbase, I think it is very important that he hit this offseason hard with ways to improve this offensive line. It is an absolute must.

Be Open Minded About The Quarterback Position In 2025 And Beyond

This is going to sound like I am ready to move off of Geno Smith. That isn’t necessarily the case, but I do feel like it is time for John Schneider to think more long term about this situation at quarterback in Seattle.

For my money, based on his 2024 play on the field, Geno Smith has not earned another big contract extension in Seattle. I know he wasn’t helped by Grubb’s play calling and the offensive line, but he still felt too reckless with the football for my tastes, and what I feel like a franchise quarterback should be. I was at four games at home in this last year, they lost all four, and in each game, Geno turned the ball over in ways that cost them.

Personally, I really dig Geno a lot, and I think he is a very easy guy to root for with him wearing swank KISS t-shirts post game, and routinely taking accountability, but I also feel like age is now working against him, and he has just never really built off of his surprising 2022 season enough.

My gut kinda tells me that he is what he is. He is a mid tier starting quarterback who can win a decent team 9 or 10 games if they have enough talent (which Seattle does), but he’s also going to do things on occasion that will cost you some games (two red zone interceptions at home against the Rams in early November will forever be burned into my mind).

Because of all of this, I don’t want that signed to another big-ish three year extension. If they want to do a shorter termed extension this offseason, I am fine with it, but I think if they sign him to a three year $120 million extension just because they are afraid of the unknown, it is going to alienate a growing portion of the fanbase, I am afraid. I sense this growing online, in the stands, and on the airwaves.

2024 brought us a storyline in Seattle of opposing fans filling out seats at Lumen Field. I am no longer into shaming season ticket holders from selling their seats online in a region where the cost of living is high. The Seattle Seahawks need to do better putting a product on the field that is better than being a mid tier team. They got off to a decent start in 2024 by hiring a coach that would ultimately fix their once vaunted defense. Now, they need to center 2025 on the offense, and for causal fans who do not spend every waking hour pouring over analytics, Geno Smith probably does not get them wildly excited. He just does not. So, I think something needs to give in 2025.

In my ideal scenario, I would be very okay with Seattle pursuing Sam Darnold should he be available on the free agent market or by a franchise tag and trade scenario by Minnesota. I don’t know how likely this is because if I were the GM of the Vikings, I would be more inclined to sign him to a sizable extension and slowly develop JJ McCarthy behind him, but I have always been a Darnold fan, and you can search this blog as far back as 2021 when all the Trade Russ noise started to happen. I was super into Seattle trading for Darnold four years ago.

Color me Colin Cowherd, but Sam Darnold was my favorite quarterback coming out of college in the 2018 draft, and in this season, when he finally had a chance to be in a good situation in the league to be a starter, look what he was able to do with it. I don’t think it was all because of Kevin O’Connell, either. Darnold showed glimpses of this style of play on the bad teams of Carolina and the Jets. Neither organization could commit enough to uncorking his potential and it is no surprise the both teams remain basement dwellers in their divisions, respectively.

So laugh this one up, if you like, but Darnold is seven years younger than Geno, has better arm talent, he’s athletic enough, and is just hitting now his prime years. For all the silly talk of the Vikings giving up on JJ McCarthy, if they really wanted to replenish their 2025 draft stock that they lost moving up to draft the Wolverine quarterback, they could just as easily tag Darnold and work out a trade to probably numerous teams who would likely be willing to offer packages of picks and maybe players for him. Seattle, in particular, could offer Geno as a hedge for McCarthy coming back from his knee injury, and another player from an area of depth on their team along with draft picks.

Be honest. If you knew you could get the 2024 version of Sam Darnold for the next six years of Seattle Seahawk football, and you got him by sending your 2025 first round pick to Minnesota along with Geno Smith and Ken Walker, would you do it? I would sign up for that, especially if paired with an offensive play caller who comes from the McVay coaching tree, or the Andy Reid one.

Six years of this level of quarterback play from a more youthful Sam Darnold would probably be the shot in the arm that this fanbase could use in order to fill up the stands again with Seahawk jerseys. Seattle would still hold their second and third round picks in 2025 to address their offensive line, and perhaps that could lean further in free agency to address the line, as well.

At the very least, it is an interesting thought. How realistic it truly is would be another matter to discuss, but this would probably be my ideal scenario for this team if the front office does actually rate Darnold highly (I think they might) and the coaches dig him enough.

But as it stands, ideal scenarios do not come along often. Therefore, in that event, I wouldn’t mind seeing Seattle either take another flyer on a young quarterback with talent that another team has moved away from, or somebody in this coming draft class.

Maybe Will Levis is a guy who will be available via trade if Tennessee wants to draft another quarterback high. If I had to pick one young quarterback out there who might be on the trade market that has anything close to Darnold-ish potential in terms or stature and arm, it would be probably be Levis.

Maybe they take a shot on Daniel Jones, Mac Jones, or Zach Wilson to come in and compete with Geno. None of these guys get me excited but Daniel Jones had a fairly decent year in 2022 playing in a run heavy offense for the G Men, Mac Jones showed some promise as a rookie, and Zach Wilson had crazy hype around his arm talent coming out of BYU.

Maybe they really like a guy in this draft like Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart who has some fun moxie to his game, or maybe Shedeur Sanders slides in the draft like some think that he might. For my money, I am drawn to Dart with his maturity and play making skills. He gives off Bo Nix vibes with a smidgen of Jalen Hurts, and I would absolutely take that in Seattle.

Ohio State QB Will Howard is another guy who intrigues a lot. He is tall mature dude with good athleticism and arm traits that feel translatable to the NFL. He’s also played a lot of college football for Kansas State and the Buckeyes, and has his current team rolling in the college football playoffs. If he is there in the second round and the Seahawks select him, I think I would get behind that.

This coming draft class with quarterbacks is getting a bit of a bad rap, in my view. A lot of people are making blanket statements that it is a bad class, but I am not so sure. While I don’t think there are guys in this class who are going to comp to Andrew Luck or Josh Allen, I think there are guys who do comp closer towards Dak Prescott, Bo Nix, Geno Smith, Andy Dalton, Derick Carr, Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, and Brock Purdy. Those sorts on cheap rookie contracts are worth taking shots on, in my view.

Getting a guy who is talented enough to be a decent NFL starter on a cheap rookie contract is an absolute golden ticket in this league. Ask 49er fans over the past couple years before injuries finally caught up to their aging team. Think about Russell Wilson in 2012-2015.

At any rate, these are probably the most realistic scenarios that I think Seattle, at this point now, should consider exploring at quarterback. Pursuing Darnold over retaining Geno makes sense, if it is possible. Adding a young QB via trade or free agency makes sense. Drafting a guy in 2025 should now be a very real possibility, and perhaps the ultimate goal.

We can forget any wild pipe dreams that Mike Florio will dream up about trading for Jalen Hurts or Trevor Lawrence. None of this is happening, and I highly doubt that the Vikings will be willing to part with JJ McCarthy who they traded up for last Spring, and was generating all kinds of positive hype during the preseason in their system before his knee injury. If anything, they will try to sign Darnold to a short extension and see how things play out between the two quarterbacks over the next few years. If Darnold balks at that notion, and they decide to tag and trade him during the Spring, then perhaps Seattle will try to make themselves a trade partner. We shall see.

I also don’t think the team likely views Sam Howell as a potential future starter. Just my vibes on that. There was no competition between him and Geno in camp, and the gulf of talent between them felt vast at practices that I watched. If anything, they might be more inclined to bring Drew Lock back to compete with Geno than open things up for Howell, but that is just my hunch.

At any rate, I feel like now is the time to truly take bites at the quarterback apple in order to find their next long term starter. Personally, if it is not a big move for a guy like Darnold, I would prefer them to look towards the draft, and I don’t care if they draft a guy like Dart or Howard higher than Mel Kiper would have. Draft pundits weren’t wild when Schneider took Russell Wilson in round three in 2012, either, but it would be really good for this organization if they at least begun this process.

Dak Prescott was a fourth round pick, and so was Kirk Cousins. Jalen Hurts was taken late in round two, Russell Wilson in the mid third round pick, and Brock Purdy was famously the last player taken in 2022. I don’t need them to take a quarterback in round one, but I kinda need them to take a quarterback at some point this Spring, pretty please.

Start taking shots at this thing. It’s time.

In Summary

If you have made it this far through this piece, you can see that I am not really stressing about Seattle’s defense much at all these days, and almost all of my needs and wants are centered about the offense. This is what 2024 has shown me about this team.

In Mike Macdonald, I very much trust the direction of this defense. I wouldn’t even be wildly upset if during the draft this Spring that their first round pick went towards another defender, if that was truly the best player available. Adding one more dynamic player to this side of the ball is just going to make a good thing better, and I will not deny my excitement in that notion.

But I need more on offense. I need a better offensive coordinator first and foremost, and I need better results on the offensive line, however they can get it. These two things are musts, in my mind.

Closely behind those is my deepening desire for Seattle to further start the process of getting younger and perhaps more talented at quarterback. I get it that it is an easier said than done sorta request, but I need this process to start this offseason, earnestly.

I also don’t think that sticking longer termed with Geno Smith should be a decision based out of fear of the unknown. He is going to be 35 years old next October, and on a roster filled with decent talent, he has shown the ability to win 9 or 10 games a year and flirt with the playoffs. If we are being truthful, he has been pretty up and down as a starter over the past three years. He can make tight windowed gorgeous throws downfield, for certain, and he is generally pretty accurate with the football, but he can also make boneheaded turnover plays that frustrate. After three years of watching him, rooting for him, I kinda think this is who he is. He is decent, but not great, and he is only going to get older, and possibly more injury prone.

Is that worthy of a $40 million dollar a year deal, or is that money better spent keeping a young nucleus together, adding to it in free agency, and waiting it out for a truly top end quarterback to come around who merits those kind of dollars, or better, is found through the draft?

This is the ultimate question to ask about Seattle and what they have with Geno Smith. You don’t need to be labeled a hater to ask this question. I truly like Geno. If they continue to roll with him, I will continue to root for him, and hope that with a better coordinator, we see better results.

But this is an important question that they have to ask.

In terms of 2025 predictions, I don’t have a ton, but here are a few.

I predict that the Seattle Seahawks will move in a different direction at offensive coordinator and Jake Peetz will be the guy to assumes the position. It will not wow a lot of fans, but I think the organization clearly appreciates the Sean McVay system, and they will take a shot at another McVay guy hoping for much better results than what they got out of Shane Waldren.

I don’t believe we will see a DK Metcalf trade despite the speculation and hype for that to happen. I believe DK likes being a Seattle Seahawk enough, and the front office values his elite athletic traits enough that an extension gets done this offseason with the hope is that better offensive play calling will make the combination of him and Jaxson Smith Njigba even more potent in 2025, and beyond.

I believe they will sign a significant piece to their offseason line in free agency, and they will use this draft that is rich enough with offensive linemen to draft a couple more players. The result will yield at least two new starters on the offensive line in 2025, and my best guess is two new guards with Olu Oluwatimi and possibly Christian Haynes battling for the center spot.

I predict that inevitably some big named players on this team will be cut in order for John Schneider to be active in free agency to improve the offensive line. The most likely players getting cut will be Tyler Lockett, Dre’Mont Jones, George Fant, and probably Roy Robertson Harris. I think there is a chance they value Uchenna Nwosu’s leadership enough along with his pass rush to keep him around on an expensive cap hit for another season, but we will see. I could also see them move off of Noah Fant’s big contract, and possibly Rayshawn Jenkins.

I believe that they will get a big multi year deal done with linebacker Ernest Jones right before the start of free agency similar to the deal they got done at the time with Big Cat Williams last year. Both the player and the team want to see this deal get done, and it will get consummated.

I don’t believe the Vikings will be willing to trade Sam Darnold or JJ McCarthy, and therefore, I think Seattle re-signs Geno Smith to a short extension, and they will continue the process of going year to year with him until they find a younger solution ready to take over. This feels inevitable. Macdonald feels like he truly digs Geno, and I don’t think he is going to be interested in gambling that they can flip Zach Wilson into a serviceable starter.

That said, I also think it is more likely that this is the year they look to the draft to find a quarterback to groom behind Geno. Jaxson Dart could be a player that they like a lot more than maybe some realize. They had a long look at Bo Nix during his pro day in Eugene, and he was an invite to their facilities days before the draft transpired. It is possible that they had a desire to draft him at 16 had he been available there, but we will never know because of Denver. As mentioned, I kinda think Dart has some Nix traits.

Finally, I predict that with a new offensive play caller, we see the offense catch up closer to the defense and Seattle becomes a playoff team in 2025. I think we see better results from Geno, and I predict that Ken Walker will have a career year in his contract year with all the debate around the Seahawks as to whether they should sign him to a big fat juicy contract extension that will surely divide the fanbase.

What is the Seahawk fanbase if they are not sharply divided on something, anyways?

Isn’t the internet fun?

Go Hawks.