For a third consecutive week, the Seattle Seahawks dropped another frustratingly winnable game in prime time. On Monday night, the Seahawks fell 13-10 to the visiting New Orleans Saints, culminating their second straight loss by exactly three points.
Seattle is now 2-5 on the year and firmly ensconced in the basement of the NFC West with the similarly 2-5 San Francisco 49ers. The gap between Seattle and the top two teams in the division – the 7-0 Cardinals and 6-1 Rams – is growing every week. At this point any reasonable hopes of catching either team have flown the coop.
The Seahawks find themselves in a position they have not been since 2011, the second year of the Pete Carroll regime. Only this time there are no promising young rookies developing, or starting a new era. This team feels as rudderless as it has been in quite some time.
