After seven wins in the past eight games and two consecutive blowouts for the Seahawks, there’s plenty of chatter in the national media about the Super Bowl.
The Seahawks (7-2), who sit atop the NFC West with the Los Angeles Rams, dominated the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday 44-22 for their second straight 20-plus-point victory following a 38-14 result against the Washington Commanders on Nov. 2.
Here’s what the national media has to say about the Seahawks’ chances at the Super Bowl.
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Seahawks defensive end Demarcus Lawrence runs a fumble recovery back for a touchdown against The Arizona Cardinals in the first quarter Sunday, November 9, 2025, at Lumen Field in Seattle.
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Chris Simms says: “I think there’s a bunch of teams in the NFC that can win the Super Bowl. It’s almost everybody. Everybody in the playoffs in the NFC can win the Super Bowl except the Chicago Bears for my money … As you’ve heard me say for the last three weeks, Seattle can win the Super Bowl. I hope everybody is starting to believe that. They are stacked. They are loaded with talent. They are feeling it, and they can do anything they want on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.”
Yahoo! Sports: Seahawks are Super Bowl contenders, but they may continue to be underrated
Frank Schwab writes: “The Seahawks delivered a statement on Sunday, but we’ll see how many people were paying attention. Seattle put forth yet another piece of evidence that it is one of the best teams in the NFL and a legitimate Super Bowl contender in a 44-22 drubbing of the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals, who are 3-6, aren’t a great team. But the ease in which the Seahawks dominated them was impressive. Seattle led 35-0 before the midway point of the second quarter and cruised to a win after that. Perhaps the Cardinals scoring a few times in the second half to make the score look better after the Seahawks let their foot off the gas will lead to another week of Seattle being underrated.”
The Athletic: Seahawks rank third in NFC teams’ odds (17.9%) to reach the Super Bowl, behind Rams (29.2%) and Eagles (19.5%)
Mike Sando writes: “Seattle is the first team since 1980 and the fourth ever to exceed 30 first-half points three times in one season, per Pro Football Reference, and there are still eight games to play. The Seahawks have built first-half leads of 38-3 over the Saints, 31-7 over Washington and 35-0 over Arizona. Seattle’s overall point differential (+103) is a franchise best, by far, to this point in a season … Seattle has become a physical, hard-hitting team on defense in Mike Macdonald’s second season as coach and defensive play caller. Two fumble-forcing hits on Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett on Sunday were particularly violent … On offense, Sam Darnold owns three of the NFL’s five best games this season for EPA per pass play.”
Sports Illustrated, The Breer Report: The Seahawks don’t have many weaknesses, but Rams still favorite to win the Super Bowl
Albert Breer says: “The Seahawks have created a couple of statistical anomalies for themselves that I think really illustrate how well they’re playing. First of all, this is the third time they have scored 30 points in the first half of a game. They did it against the Saints, they did it against the Commanders and they did it again against the Cardinals. The third time they have scored over 30 points in the first half of a game. I don’t know what the number is, how often that’s happened, but it can’t have happened much. The other thing they did [against the Cardinals] that was just fascinating to me was that they only threw the ball 12 times. They ran 46 times … It goes to show how they can control a game, how they can win games different ways. This is starting to feel like a team that doesn’t have a ton of weaknesses … This looks like a Seattle team that has really built some momentum going into Week 11, but what is waiting for them in Los Angeles is a Rams team that I think should be the favorite to win the Super Bowl right now.”
Sophia Vesely: svesely@seattletimes.com. Sophia Vesely is a general assignment sports reporter at the Seattle Times. wrote for the Dallas Morning News and the Orlando Sentinel before joining the Seattle Times in 2025.