Seahawks grades from week 17 win that felt like a loss

The Seahawks beat the Cardinals on Sunday in the final regular season game of the year for both teams. Here are the grades for Seattle.

With a night to think about the Seahawks defeat of the Cardinals in week 17, I am still aggravated. Seattle is a better team than it showed on Sunday. And the fact that Pete Carroll played his starters for the entire game and Seattle needed those starters to win is a bit embarrassing.

The Cardinals were 3-12 entering the game and Seattle was 9-6 with a lot of momentum. On Sunday, the Cardinals were the better team in a lot of ways. Arizona just didn’t win where it mattered, the scoreboard.

I could blame a lot of Seattle’s issues on offense on a line that was missing starters and with Germain Ifedi playing out of position. But what was the problem with blocking on punts? Michael Dickson had two blocked.

The Cowboys, who Seattle plays on Saturday at 5:15 pm PT in the first round of the playoffs, must have been smiling thinking about all the possible things they can do against the Seahawks’ (not so-) special teams. But this is also the same Seattle team that won six of their last seven games, so maybe the week 17 game was a bit of a mirage. 12s have to hope so.

There were some positives for Seattle too. I shouldn’t forget that this is the NFL and a win is a win. And Seattle did finish at 10-6, a lot better than most predicted. Here are the grades for each unit for Seattle in Sunday’s victory.