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It’s Week 10 of the NFL season, and the Seattle Seahawks are 4-5 as they enter their bye week. It has been an up and down season for Seattle. The Seahawks and rookie head coach Mike Macdonald began the 12 months 3-0 with wins over the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots, and Miami Dolphins. Nonetheless, that sizzling begin got here to a fast fizzle with the Seahawks dropping 5 out of their subsequent six video games. The one win in that 1-5 stretch was a powerful victory over the now-NFC South main Atlanta Falcons. That spectacular victory nevertheless was adopted up by two extra losses, simply emphasizing how up and down this 2024 season has been for Seattle.
So, what do 12s really feel concerning the 2024 season thus far? With Coach Macdonald being in his first 12 months, expectations might have been fairly low. Nonetheless, the Seahawks barely missed out on the 2023 playoffs, and with a brand new defensive guru, many expectations for the Seahawks had been to not less than make the playoffs in 2024. With these excessive expectations for Seattle, it’s not shocking that with a 4-5 document, solely 41% of Seahawks followers are assured the group is on course. Moreover, 55% of Seahawks followers anticipated Seattle to have greater than 4 wins, 9 weeks into the season.
With Seattle solely having performed two division video games, they nonetheless have 4 extra to go. One sport left in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams, together with two video games in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals. Non-divisional video games that stay don’t appear like a cake stroll both. Seattle additionally is about to face the New York Jets, Inexperienced Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, and Chicago Bears within the second half of the season. When requested, how they suppose the Seahawks will fare the remainder of the 2024 season, 58% of Seahawks followers suppose that Seattle will end the common season with not less than 10 losses.
For these 58% of followers to be appropriate, Seattle must end 3-5 or worse. To look extra optimistically, if Seattle had been to need to problem for the playoffs, they doubtless might have to have not less than 10 wins. To perform that, the Seahawks would want to win not less than six out of their final eight video games, going 6-2. Time will inform if Seattle can flip this round and proper the ship.
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