The Seattle Seahawks are 7-3 and trending toward a playoff spot. The rest of the schedule is a mixed bag of goodness versus really bad teams. That begins with Week 12 when Seattle travels to Nashville to play the awful Tennessee Titans.
As long as Seattle takes care of business against the teams they should beat, the team should be in fine shape for the rest of the season. It would also be nice to defeat the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams in the meetings they have the rest of 2025. One thing will definitely help that cause.
That would be for quarterback Sam Darnold and the rest of the offense to cut down on their league-leading number of turnovers. Seattle has 20 (one was a defensive turnover when safety Coby Bryant fumbled after getting an interception). Worse, Darnold leads the league in individual turnovers.
Sam Darnold addresses the Seattle Seahawks' awful turnover issue
Darnold was asked about the issue when meeting the media before Week 12, and offered, "It's unacceptable. We understand as an offense, we have to be better, I have to be better, protecting the football. We're doing everything that we can in practice, and when the game comes, to try to take care of the football a little bit better."
No. Not "a little bit better," a lot better. Super Bowl contenders tend not to beat themselves, and having turnovers is beating oneself. Plus, many of these turnovers have come in the second half of games, and a couple of the last drives of potentially winnable games.
Darnold fumbled near the end of Week 1 in a loss to the 49ers after right tackle Abraham Lucas was pushed into him, and the quarterback threw an interception on the team's last drive of Week 5, a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In Week 11's loss to the Rams, QB1 threw four interceptions.
If not for turnovers at the absolute wrong times, Seattle could be unbeaten. The Seahawks were deep in the 49ers' territory when Darnold fumbled. In Week 5, the game was tied at 35, and Seattle only needed to get in field goal range to potentially win the game. The Seahawks lost to the Rams just 21-19 despite Darnold's awful turnovers.
It's great that the Seattle Seahawks are aware of the turnover issue, but speaking about that awareness does little. What matters is making sure in real games the team doesn't fumble or throw an interception while maintaining the same level of efficiency the offense normally has. Otherwise, Seattle will lose a game late in the season that they shouldn't.