“We have so much experience, so many guys have been through the fire,” says quarterback Russell Wilson. Seattle is listed at 8-1 odds to win the Super Bowl in 2017.
Roughly 24 hours after Carolina had recovered a last-gasp Seattle onside kick to sew up a divisional playoff win against the Seahawks on Jan. 17, Pete Carroll began setting a theme for the 2016 season.
The feeling coming out of the loss, he said, essentially was the same as it was after the Seahawks’ playoff loss at Atlanta in January 2013, the previous time Seattle had staged a dramatic comeback before losing a divisional playoff game against an NFC South team.