The Seattle Seahawks were not terrible this season. The team won 10 games, the most for any non-playoff team. The year could have gone a lot of different ways after Seattle hired first-time head coach Mike Macdonald, and after a stretch where the team lost five of six games, the coach got the ship righted and the team finished strong.
Perhaps the most positive aspect of the season was that Seattle's defense improved quite a bit over last year. This was hoped for after Macdonald was hired after being the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens the previous two seasons, but whether the Seahawks had the players to carry out the scheme was a question. As it turns out, Seattle mostly did.
Entering 2025, the defense should be expected to be even better and so should the offense. The Seahawks offense struggled as the season grew old as offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb had a poor plan once the team entered the red zone, and he failed to commit to running the ball. Grubb is gone now, and he was replaced by veteran OC Klint Kubiak.
Seattle Seahawks' odds for winning the Super Bowl are worse than finishing last in the NFC West
Should Seattle be good enough to compete for a championship alongside teams such as the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers? Maybe not. Not yet, anyway, but Seattle should be better and one more win in 2025 should be enough to get the team into the playoffs.
Is Seattle going to be worse and have a battle for last place in the NFC West? That seems unlikely, too, but that is exactly where oddsmakers have them. According to Josh Dubow on social media, Seattle's odds to win the Super Bowl next season are the same as the Arizona Cardinals. Both teams have the worst odds in the division currently.
The 49ers have the highest odds at +1300. This is the sixth-best in the NFL. The Eagles have the best odds at +650. The Kansas City Chiefs, this year's Super Bowl runner-up and winner of the game in the previous two seasons, are tied for third at +750.
Second-best in the NFC West is the Los Angeles Rams at +2200. The Seahawks and Cardinals are tied at +6000. That number ranks 18th in the league. In other words, 12s should not have high hopes for a run at the Super Bowl next season, according to the odds, but also should hope the team doesn't finish last in the division.
Assuming the Seahawks do not make wholesale roster moves, such as starting over at quarterback and keeping DK Metcalf in Seattle, the team should be just as good, if not better, next season. Odds don't win football games, of course. Players and coaches do.
