For some teams, winning a Super Bowl takes an extraordinary set of circumstances. However, the Seattle Seahawks’ run to a Super Bowl title in 2025 shouldn’t be viewed as them catching lightning in a bottle.
After the Los Angeles Rams dominated headlines this offseason, Colin Cowherd argued that the Seahawks are being overlooked ahead of the 2026 season.
“Vegas has the Baltimore Ravens, an 8-9 team last year, with better Super Bowl odds than the Seahawks. Nobody thinks they can repeat. It was a one-off. No way will [Sam] Darnold play mistake-free playoff soccer once more. Issues went of their favor,” Cowherd mentioned on Wednesday’s “The Herd.”
“No, really, they didn’t go of their favor in any respect. The other is true. Sam Darnold goes to arguably the perfect division in soccer, has a brand new coach, a brand new coordinator, a brand new O-line, a foul O-line, and a brand new receiving core, JSN (Jaxon Smith-Njigba).”
Seattle enters the season with the fourth-best Tremendous Bowl odds (through DraftKings Sportsbook), trailing Los Angeles, Baltimore and the Buffalo Payments. However Cowherd thinks even that is too low, pointing to the uncommon continuity Darnold could have this season as a key motive why the Seahawks must be considered as a contender.
“Darnold — 4 groups, 4 years — for the primary time in years, [he has the] similar head coach, similar locker room, similar tradition, similar metropolis, similar home,” Cowherd mentioned. “That type of continuity to me looks as if an enormous profit.”
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Darnold had a powerful opening season with the Seahawks. He was fifth within the league in passing yards (4,048) to go along with 25 passing touchdowns as he helped Smith-Njigba win Offensive Participant of the Yr.
However Darnold wasn’t the important thing motive for Seattle’s success. The Seahawks’ protection was arguably the perfect within the league. They completed with the perfect scoring protection within the common season earlier than placing up a dominant efficiency within the playoffs, together with of their Tremendous Bowl win over the New England Patriots.
Cowherd added that head coach Mike Macdonald has established a powerful id in Seattle, evaluating him to a different Tremendous Bowl-winning coach in the identical division.
“Boy, Mike Macdonald is absolutely spectacular. The top coach, he is Sean McVay [on the] defensive aspect.” Cowherd mentioned.
“They are not getting old out of this. Their older gamers do not get harm a lot. Leonard Williams, DeMarcus Lawrence, Charles Cross, and their finest gamers are all younger and getting higher.”
And past that, Cowherd likes the Seahawks’ infrastructure heading into the brand new yr.
“Their previous guys are wholesome. Darnold’s a younger 29, by no means had a number of accidents,” Cowherd mentioned. “They’ve the perfect GM, arguably, defensive coach, arguably, the perfect receiver, arguably. And over the past two years, they have been 15-2 on the highway. They’re the perfect dwelling group with out an argument, and but they’re type of thought of, they usually’re probably not talked about.”
