SBNation Reacts outcomes: Followers gained’t view season as failure if Seahawks miss playoffs

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of followers throughout the NFL. Every week we ask questions of probably the most plugged-in Seattle Seahawks followers and followers throughout the nation.

The Seattle Seahawks are coming off a demoralizing prime time loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers final week. Regardless of this loss, 78% of Seahawks followers nonetheless stay assured the group is headed in the appropriate route. With the loss to the Packers, the Seahawks are safely in “must win” mode for the remainder of the 2024 season. Realizing this, Seahawk followers could also be wanting on the group from an enormous image perspective and really feel that Mike Macdonald is main the group in the appropriate route.

When wanting into the instant future, Seahawks followers confidence wanes. 71% of Seahawks followers suppose the Minnesota Vikings will defeat the Seahawks. Of that group, 37% suppose the sport will likely be nearer than not, believing that the Vikings will win by 1-8 factors. This isn’t probably the most stunning outcome. The Vikings are top-of-the-line groups within the NFL and are tied for first within the NFC at 12-2 with the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles, and nonetheless have a really clear shot on the primary seed. After the primetime blowout to the Packers final week, it isn’t stunning that the extra much more formidable Vikings will likely be a tall activity to beat this upcoming Sunday.

If the Seahawks lose this upcoming Sunday, their playoff hopes change into much more tough, and practically gone fully.

Nevertheless, even when the Seahawks miss the playoffs, 56% of Seahawks followers won’t view the 2024 season as a failure. A lot of this can be attributable to Mike Macdonald being in his first 12 months as head coach. Presently the Seahawks are 8-6, solely one-win shy of no less than matching 2023’s 9-8 end. Even when Seattle had been to lose out and go 8-9, Macdonald would nonetheless have the ability to cling his hat on turning round a struggling protection and sustaining the Seahawks tradition that Pete Carroll helped implement all through the 2010s. In the meantime 25% of Seahawks followers imagine the 2024 season will come all the way down to how the group finishes. Absolutely if the Seahawks do lose out and 8-9, a lot of the 56% above might really feel in a different way, particularly if the protection takes a step again, or if Geno Smith and the offense proceed to wrestle (particularly within the Pink Zone.)

As talked about above, no matter how the Seahawks end, and the way the 2024 Seahawks will likely be seen, the overwhelming majority of Seahawks followers (78%) are assured Mike Macdonald has the group shifting in the appropriate route.

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