Alright 12’s, it is officially time to start the clock for the 2023 season. Free agency has come and gone, we’re through the draft, and now the official schedule for the Seattle Seahawks has been released.
As fans can start circling the calendar (and checking their pocketbooks) to determine which games stand out, I figured it was time we do so at Seahawks Wire as well.
Seattle is coming off a surprisingly resurgent 2022 where they won nine games and made it to the playoffs. But make no mistake: the Seahawks have their sights set much higher than simply qualifying for the postseason.
However, in order to help get to where they want to go, they’ll have to prove it in these five biggest games for them this year.
You might be asking “how could this not be higher?” It’s a fair question, especially since it’s a primetime game against a fellow playoff team, after all. The reason I don’t have this higher is because the Seahawks handled the Giants fairly easily last season in a 27-13 rout which was not nearly as competitive as even a 14-point margin might suggest.
New York did advance further than Seattle in the playoffs, and they’ll have a second year under 2022 Coach of the Year Brian Daboll, but the Giants were serious overachievers last season.
The Seahawks shouldn’t overlook New York by any means, but Monday Night is Seattle’s night, as the Seahawks boast the best win percentage in Monday Night Football’s history.
Before you start rolling your eyes at me for putting a Week 3 game over a Monday Night Football game, may I remind you these same Panthers marched into Lumen Field late last year and bullied the Seahawks at home?
Carolina was a much more competitive team than their record might’ve indicated, but they were still a team Seattle could – and should – have been able to defend home turf against. Now they boast No. 1 overall pick and former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Bryce Young to lead them.
It will be an early test to see if the Seahawks can A.) get a little revenge and more importantly B.) show vast improvement in defending the run game. The Panthers cruised to 223 rushing yards as a team in their 30-24 victory last December.
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