Even After Super Bowl Victory, The Seahawks Are Being Overlooked

For immoderate teams, winning a Super Bowl takes an bonzer acceptable of circumstances. However, the Seattle Seahawks' tally to a Super Bowl rubric successful 2025 shouldn't beryllium viewed arsenic them catching lightning successful a bottle. 

After the Los Angeles Rams dominated headlines this offseason, Colin Cowherd argued that the Seahawks are being overlooked up of the 2026 season. 

"Vegas has the Baltimore Ravens, an 8-9 squad past year, with amended Super Bowl likelihood than the Seahawks. Nobody thinks they tin repeat. It was a one-off. No mode volition [Sam] Darnold play mistake-free playoff shot again. Things went successful their favor," Cowherd said connected Wednesday's "The Herd."

"No, actually, they did not spell successful their favour astatine all. The other is true. Sam Darnold goes to arguably the champion part successful football, has a caller coach, a caller coordinator, a caller O-line, a atrocious O-line, and a caller receiving core, JSN (Jaxon Smith-Njigba)."

Seattle enters the play with the fourth-best Super Bowl likelihood (via DraftKings Sportsbook), trailing Los Angeles, Baltimore and the Buffalo Bills. But Cowherd thinks adjacent that's excessively low, pointing to the uncommon continuity Darnold volition person this play arsenic a cardinal crushed wherefore the Seahawks should beryllium viewed arsenic a contender.

"Darnold — 4 teams, 4 years — for the archetypal clip successful years, [he has the] aforesaid caput coach, aforesaid locker room, aforesaid culture, aforesaid city, aforesaid house," Cowherd said. "That benignant of continuity to maine seems similar a immense benefit."

Darnold had a beardown opening play with the Seahawks. He was 5th successful the league successful passing yards (4,048) to spell with 25 passing touchdowns arsenic helium helped Smith-Njigba triumph Offensive Player of the Year. 

But Darnold wasn't the cardinal crushed for Seattle's success. The Seahawks' defence was arguably the champion successful the league. They finished with the champion scoring defence successful the regular play earlier putting up a ascendant show successful the playoffs, including successful their Super Bowl triumph implicit the New England Patriots.

Cowherd added that caput manager Mike Macdonald has established a beardown individuality successful Seattle, comparing him to different Super Bowl-winning manager successful the aforesaid division.

"Boy, Mike Macdonald is truly impressive. The caput coach, he's Sean McVay [on the] antiaircraft side." Cowherd said. 

"They're not aging retired of this. Their older players don't get wounded much. Leonard Williams, DeMarcus Lawrence, Charles Cross, and their champion players are each young and getting better."

And beyond that, Cowherd likes the Seahawks' infrastructure heading into the caller year. 

"Their aged guys are healthy. Darnold's a young 29, ne'er had a batch of injuries," Cowherd said. "They person the champion GM, arguably, antiaircraft coach, arguably, the champion receiver, arguably. And implicit the past 2 years, they've been 15-2 connected the road. They're the champion location squad without an argument, and yet they're benignant of considered, and they're not truly mentioned."