Indulge in my nerdy interests for a quick second. It applies to the Seattle Seahawks, I promise.
George Lucas once explained the history of Star Wars and how Anakin and Luke Skywalker represent it. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme.” Their actions and situations seem strikingly similar, but the outcomes are certainly different.
History repeats itself all the time. Flip on the news or scroll social media for a few minutes today, and you’ll likely feel that bizarre but accountable feeling in our current worldspace. You can do the same thing five, 10, 15 years from now, too. History repeats itself, but it rhymes as it does so.
So how does Mr. Lucas and his wars in the stars compare to the Seahawks? Look no further than the franchise’s weirdest offseason move of 2025.
History rhymes, but it doesn’t repeat perfectly in Seattle
Didn’t it feel like just yesterday the Seattle Seahawks announced these snazzy new uniforms, signed Matt Flynn, and drafted Russell Wilson in the third round of the NFL Draft? Those actions ushered in a new era of Seahawks football that resulted in two trips to the Super Bowl, one of which showcased one of the most dominant performances in the history of the championship game.
That was in 2012. In 2025, history repeated itself. The Seahawks didn’t overhaul their uniforms, but will wear two new alternates this season. They signed Sam Darnold in free agency and drafted Jalen Milroe in the third round.
If you indulged in my nerdy interests, or if you’ve simply been paying close attention all along, you see the connection already. Separated by 13 years, the Seahawks made similar moves that so far have bred different results.
Fans who recognized immediately may have gotten on the Milroe bandwagon right away, thinking that history repeats itself earnestly. But it doesn’t. It rhymes. Milroe will be the third-string quarterback for now while Darnold operates as the starter, and that’s okay.
It makes it no less weird for Seattle to take the steps it did. It’s unnerving that things didn’t fall in place like they did before. After all, a young athletic quarterback is always more exciting than the veteran pocket passer on his fifth team.
Of course, in the way that history rhymes, the future still remains unwritten. There’s no telling how the Milroe experiment will go behind Darnold. Either player could be the starter two or three years from now. Will they deliver similar results on a league-wide scale? It’s not impossible.
Certainly, if they do, we’ll be here to talk about how weird that historical rhyming was, too.