How The Seattle Seahawks Lost A Dynasty: The Rise And Fall Of An NFL Empire...

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One of these days, you're gonna legit convince someone who doesnt know anything about NFL history that Jay Cutler is a hall of famer.

R.I.P Tavaris Jackson. For those who dont know, in April 12th 2020, Tavaris Jackson swerved off a roadway into a tree with his 2012 Camaro. In his career he had over 7,000 passing yards a superbowl ring and 39 passing touchdowns. In his time he played for the Minnesota Vikings from 2006-2010 and then the Seattle Seahawks from 2011-2015. He was 6,2 225lbs and ran a 4.69 40 yard dash at the NFL Combine. I hope in wherever afterlife he believes in, Tavaris D'andre Jackson lies happy. We Seahawks fans give you respect for wearing the same number as geno smith. It also hurts me that I was the only one to mention his sad death.

After their Super Bowl loss to the Patriots I knew that team would never be the same again.

Goes to show how hard it is to win in the NFL. If you get to see your team win a Superbowl in your lifetime, you're incredibly lucky.

Even though they didn’t turn out to be a dynasty, they certainly felt like one in the making. From 2012-2014 the Seahawks felt like the NFCs version of the Patriots. They almost always seemed to find a way to win big games… until Malcom Butler happened.

Believe it or not, the game that really was the driving force between the locker room divide was the NFC Championship. The Pro Russ/Anti Russ locker room thing you mention earlier dates back to even before the 2014 season. Despite Russ playing the worst game of his career, multiple players came out and said Pete went out of his way to praise him and give him a ton of credit for the win, despite the LOB holding the packers to 16 points on 4 red zone trips (3 of which were off of Wilson INTs). The Super Bowl ending really was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

One of my most tragic childhood memories is watching that 2014 interception. Seriously lives with me today even as a 23 year old

Video hurt to watch as a Seahawks fan but its great to look back and reminisce

Fun Fact: The Seahawks made it to back2back Superbowls, when Russell Wilson was on a Rookie-Contract. Once they started paying him like a superstar, they won two Wildcard games in 6 years. But hey, that is Denver's problem now. But it is just amazing, how decent to good Quarterbacks like Wilson actually cripple your ability to compete for a championship, once you pay them... yet everybody always pays them.

As a 9er fan, I have nothing but respect for the Seahawks during this time. They were great villains, in our eyes, and we had some epic games. Looking forward to their Hall of Fame speeches. Great video bro.

Can't wait for the season finale when Tom Brady takes over the whole room

As a Seattle born and raised man. All I care about is that for 1 year (superbowl year) the Hawks were the best team in the NFL and dominated with no question. We had arguably one if not the greatest teams ever seen. Not many teams can/ have experienced that. What goes ip must come down eventually but when when we were up we were an untouched level. You cant ask for much more than that.

When Kam Chancellor went down I knew the LOB was doomed, he was so dominant and a leader for the team. 😢

I remember Matt Flynn from 2013 when Rodgers missed half the season with a broken collar bone. He actually had a pretty good stretch including a comeback win down 26-3 against the cowboys.

Even though I am a Niner fan and didn't like the team, I respected what they had, and how during the Harbaugh years, they went toe to toe with the niners. I do not think that the interception in the Super Bowl was their ultimate downfall. It was when Russell Wilson's rookie contract was up. When you have to pay your qb a lot of money, the rest of the talent around him eventually suffered. While people credit him for keeping the team afloat, the reason he was running for his life almost every game is because the o line was the area management look to to go cheap on to pay Russell. He didn't have a good old line. ONe of the reasons Tom Brady was so good was because he was kept upright in his games. He had a good old line, because he never took max contract deals, allowing even a few million freed up for a key player, such as an offensive tackle, solid pieces on defense, etc.

To be honest Pete is doing this all over again. I gotta hand it to him and the Seahawks organization

It was a fun ride in the Northwest in the 2010s for Seahawk fans. This video is a great summary of the overall story. But I guess I don't look at at the "what ifs" so much as Seattle played the weirdest brand of football for nearly a decade. There were even articles about how they just seemed incapable of ever playing a normal game, with so many going down to the last drive or whatever. It was fun, exciting, heart-attacking inducing and rarely boring. We watch football for entertainment, at its core. Seahawk fans were always entertained, even if some of it was painful. My theory is that their insane, miracle comeback against Green Bay in the NFC championship game used up all their luck. That's still the most incredible few minutes of football ever. Wilson went from playing his worst game ever to his best. Meanwhile, Marshawn Lynch kept it together. It also helps Mike McCarthy was a timid man that day. This new version of the Seahawks might have their own championship run in them soon. But I'm not sure they'll ever be the same wacky bunch of characters as the mid 2010s Seahawks. They were legendary. And we'll always treasure that thumping of Peyton Manning. As a fan, I'm satisfied.

I was expecting your Seahawks video to be one geared around praise for what they have recently mananged to pull off as a franchise. But I am actually glad in some respects that we are looking back at some fairly painful years (even though it triggers my childhood trauma, giving me flashbacks to the chair I hid behind after you know what happened). We need to remember that just a few years ago, the team was in the midst of a slow and painful decline spanning many seasons, kept on life support by Russ throwing across his body more times than one should need to. We had some questionable drafts, dubius trades, and downright sus FA signings. We had running backs getting hurt in droves, coaches getting flipped off, fan favorite HOF players injuring their necks and disappearing into the shadow realm, and a wildly inconsistant O-line. The 2022 season was the first time since 2014 where it felt like the team was really trending up, as far as the long-term future was concerned. The last couple of years has felt like a complete 180, and was truly a new era. Before that though, I aways felt a sense of sadness, grief for what never was. Yes, we won a lot of games, but it always seemed like we underachieved. The years spanning 2015 - 2021 can indeed be described as the fumbling of a dynasty, one excruciating trip to State Farm Statium at a time.

I miss Kam. Career ended way too soon. One of my GOATS ❤