Alexandre Castro joined Field Gulls in June 2024. Based in Brazil, he is Field Gulls' lead Seahawks analyst who's also responsible for college football coverage, draft prospect analysis, film breakdowns, and articles related to football tactics.
If you’ve come to this article still believing in the playoffs, congratulations, you have a lot of faith. According to ESPN Analytics, the Seattle Seahawks have an 18.6% chance of winning the NFC West. In fact, there’s a better chance of the Seahawks being eliminated one round early than qualifying for the playoffs in week 18.
I won’t get into the discussion of possibilities, but in summary we have:
- The Seahawks can only make the playoffs by winning the NFC West, there’s no chance of making it via the Wild Card;
- If the Seahawks lose to the Bears + Los Angeles Rams beat the Arizona Cardinals, they’re eliminated;
- If they beat the Bears and the Rams beat the Cardinals (which is very likely since the Arizona team is eliminated and has several absences in the OL), the Seahawks would have to beat the Rams in the last round and count on a combination of results to win the strength of schedule tiebreaker.