The thing is, people will argue profusely that the Seahawks aren’t bad (some will of course scream that they are), and I believe this. However…not being bad doesn’t make us good. It doesn’t. We have a bad defense, and an offense that should be good but can’t get it together.
Can we improve? Sure. Can we be good? No, not really. We can be less embarrassing, and given the “any given Sunday” effect we can certainly win some.
But because we’re not awful, we don’t get those games changing draft choices, so we have to find game changers by drafting way better than anyone else, and we’re not doing it. The last 2 drafts have been good, but man we’re just not really closing the gap.
This team is closer to 4-6 than 9-1 by way of playing. They have good corners, ok safeties, but backers and D-line are bad and awful respectively.
Offensively they have good receivers, ok TE’s, and then an O-line that waffles between ok at best and awful at worst, and a QB that frankly this year has also waffles between ok at best and awful at worst.
We are just not good!
We also need more luck. Jamal was a game changer for the Jets but has had terrible injury luck with us. Uwosu was our most productive edge rusher and went down for the season.
The issue with this team isn’t talent. It’s execution. We have only been boat raced in 2 games and could be 8-2. But poor execution and our inability to close out games through maintaining offensive drivers means we could be 4-6 or worse.
We are both a really good team and really bad team at times. The difference between our floor and ceiling is huge and that gap makes it very difficult for fans to process, especially ones that only look at outcomes.