I’ve heard this sentiment from Laurelhurst to Leschi lately: “I just can’t figure the [Huskies/Seahawks] out! One week they beat a good team, the next week they lose to a bad one! What gives?”
What gives, friends, is that both the Huskies and Seahawks have emerged from the muck of terribleness. Joy! However, they have not stumbled very far. They now gambol in the slightly damp ground of mediocrity. The move will take some adjustment.
“Good enough to beat USC on the road. Bad enough to lose all momentum at home,” wrote the Seattle Times’ Jerry Brewer of the Huskies. “The only characteristic of this team is that it’s indefinable.”
Not really, no. You can define them pretty easily with SAT math: (Good+Bad)/2 = Average.
The Seahawks are almost exactly comme çi, comme ça: They have scored one more point than they have allowed.
Sadly, mediocrity looks like the best we can hope for. The Seahawks, for all their pre-season personnel changes, are still an old team at most key positions. And the Huskies, while they possess plenty of young talent, will be breaking in a new quarterback next season.
So get used to it. On the bright side, you don’t have to assume that our Dawgs or Hawks will definitely lose to elite teams. On the dark side, you aren’t going to want to pick them in your suicide pool anytime soon.
Hell, a Mariners fan would cheer mediocrity!
The Hawks have beaten exactly one team with a winning record. They have had games handed to them and still almost lost. They lost badly to a team that just lost to the Raiders, 59-14. They have won one game on the road. And they play in the worst division in the NFL.
The good news is they have one of the easiest schedules in the league, and they could indeed win their pitiful division.