Another tough pill to swallow for the Emerald City. Our Seahawks dropped a gut-wrenching 17-14 overtime loss to the Denver Broncos on Thursday night, making it three L’s in our last four games. This team, right now, has looked “anything but a defending Super Bowl champion,” and frankly, expectations around here have shifted big time since Week 1.
The Struggle is Real, Y’all
Let’s be real, the numbers don’t lie. Our scoring margin is falling, and it’s hitting hard. We’re just over a third of the way through the NFL season, and the progress of our eight 2026 draft picks has us all scratching our heads because they’ve “underwhelmed thus far.” That Broncos game on Thursday Night Football? It had “plenty of bad moments from their stars” on display. Seriously, we’ve gotta find some answers beyond Nick Emmanwori, who, to his credit, “is rising” according to the latest reports. But we need more than one guy climbing the ranks when the whole squad feels like it’s slipping.
Coach Sticks By His Guys, For Now
Head Coach Mike Macdonald held a press conference on Friday, and he came out swinging in defense of his staff and players. Despite the offensive struggles we’ve been seeing, Macdonald expressed full confidence in first-year offensive coordinator Brian Fleury. But the biggest question mark hovering over Lumen Field? That’s our QB1, Sam Darnold. Macdonald was unwavering. He told the media the team “has a lot of faith” in Darnold, has “no plans to bench” him, and his job as the starting quarterback “is not in jeopardy.” The coach even sees Darnold as “part of the team-driven search for solutions” right now. While Macdonald stands firm, questions about Darnold’s “viability as a QB1” are definitely being asked by everyone watching. The message from the locker room is that the team is “not panicking” after these consecutive losses, and they’re “looking to solve problems collectively.”
So, where do we go from here? The schedule, folks, “does not get any easier.” Macdonald is banking on a collective effort and his continued faith in Darnold and Fleury to turn this ship around. We need to see those collective solutions, and we need to see them soon. The 12s are ready for that corner to be turned.
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Originally reported by Field Gulls.
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