After 12 games in 2011, the Seattle Seahawks stood at 5-7 but there were some positive takeaways for a team that Pete Carroll was desperately trying to separate from the Jim Mora transition year. The Seahawks had been a massively overachieving 7-9 in Carroll’s first season (despite a playoff win, Seattle was 30th in DVOA and only saved by its 2nd overall ranking in special teams) and stacked up a few hopeless losses (33-17 to the 49ers, 24-0 to the Steelers, 34-12 to the Bengals, and a 23-13 loss to the Cowboys that was worse than that) to open 2011’s first half.
8 years after Pete Carroll started to breathe life into Seahawks, he remains consistent
