The schedule is out, and there are some nifty storylines to maintain this season intriguing for the Seattle Seahawks.
Listed below are the 5 most attention-grabbing video games Seattle will play this yr. Not in how they have an effect on the standings, as a result of let’s face it who cares this season. These? These are for enjoyable.
Clearly probably the most attention-grabbing recreation of the whole season, the NFL kindly obliged by making it a gap week Monday Evening affair.
The Unhealthy: Russell Wilson, prime time, initially of the season.
The Good: Wilson might be with out what would have been his top-two receiving threats of final yr. Noah Fant is now with Seattle, and Jerry Jeudy’s legal status is suddenly up in the air with a no-bail arrest made this week. These items don’t are inclined to have an effect on NFL video games all that usually, but when it does, Wilson finds himself with considerably much less pass-catching expertise than he had a yr in the past.
Jared Goff didn’t play within the matchup in opposition to the Seahawks final yr, however is traditionally superb at throwing to Quandre Diggs. Seattle’s most full recreation of 2021 got here in opposition to the hapless Lions, and if there’s one workforce that this roster may do work in opposition to regardless the quarterback, it’s Detroit.
Seattle certainly will get a recreation in opposition to Arizona throughout the DeAndre Hopkins suspension. It’s at house, too, which is improbable as a result of the chance to play a Cardinals workforce with out Hopkins whereas not shedding three gamers to damage in Glendale is an efficient factor.
It will likely be simply the second divisional recreation for the Hawks, and the primary in opposition to an Arizona franchise that’s not with out its share of drama proper now. Kyler Murray is offseasonally weird, they usually’re simply by no means a constantly good workforce. Must be attention-grabbing.
The Seahawks performed in opposition to Chandler Jones and Davante Adams in 2021. Now they play them once more, on the identical workforce. For all of the years of enjoying the Raiders within the preseason, this recreation ought to come proper in the midst of a playoff push for Las Vegas and can be extra loaded and significant than Seattle desires. On Jones:
Jones now has 16.5 sacks in 11 profession video games in opposition to the Seahawks, probably the most of every other NFL franchise in his profession. He has 12.5 sacks in six profession video games at Lumen Discipline and is now tied for 10th all-time in sacks on the venue, which opened in 2002.
The Raiders additionally traded away Yannick Ngakoue for CB Rock Ya-Sin as they construct a really totally different protection this season.
That is my private favourite matchup of the yr.
D.J. Reed! Draft dream Sauce Gardner! Jamal Adams revenge recreation! George Fant reverse revenge recreation!
(Do you know that Jacob Martin, after being traded to the Houston Texans within the Jadeveon Clowney deal, is now with the Jets?)
The purpose is, this recreation has simply probably the most quantity of former gamers on one another’s roster, and attention-grabbing gamers at that. D.J. Reed was the free agent signing I most wished the workforce to retain, and is simply an superior dude, left in model, and stays vocal and humorous on social media. I want him completely nothing however the very best, and there are such a lot of enjoyable on-field matchups, storylines, and recognizable names {that a} Week 17 which can contain completely nothing to play for, ought to merely be a extremely enjoyable recreation. Is Drew Lock higher than Zach Wilson? Can he even throw on these corners? Will Jamal attempt to do one thing loopy?
Wanting ahead to the little issues this season.
