Salk: National media sleeping on Seahawks is a big mistake

How’s this for a shock? People are once again sleeping on the Seattle Seahawks.

Yeah, go figure. It only happens, you know, every single year. And some of it makes sense.

They’re not the sexy pick. They’re not super loud. They’re not out there crowing about all of their accomplishments. But I do think some of this comes down to a very simple misunderstanding in the national media.

They seem to think that the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl last year may have been a fluke. It wasn’t a fluke. It may have been a surprise, but there’s a big difference between a surprise and a fluke.

A surprise happens when nobody expects something. And look, nobody expected the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl this past year. I certainly didn’t. Neither did you, and neither did most of the national folks.

That’s OK. Surprises happen. But that doesn’t mean they’re fluky.

There’s nothing fluky about the Seahawks’ Super Bowl win. They weren’t a team that was just barely over .500 who got on fire at the end of the year. They were 14-3. They were one of the dominant teams according to virtually every metric you could look at.

They had offense, they had defense, they had special teams. They were a great football team who, in three playoff games, had two blowouts – one over the Niners, another over the Patriots. That is a dominant performance. There’s nothing fluky about it.

Did they lose a couple of people this offseason? Sure. Have they replaced them? I think they’ve done a pretty darn good job. We’ll find out whether or not the rookies are up to the same level of the guys that left.

But to be sleeping on the Seattle Seahawks right now seems like a pretty big mistake.

This post is a transcript of the video at the top of the post. It is edited for clarity. Catch Mike Salk weekdays from 6-10 a.m. on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk.

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