A few hours before the Green Bay Packers delivered a final dagger in their season — a win over Dallas that would have meant the Seahawks could have hosted the NFC Championship game — Seattle players cleaned out their lockers, looking pained enough.
Receiver Doug Baldwin stood in front of his locker, his face telling the story of a tough season and a long night following at 36-20 divisional round playoff loss at Atlanta on Saturday.
“I was up at 3:30 this morning playing Madden,’’ Baldwin said barely seven hours later. “The reason why I play Madden is because in Madden I can control everything and in the game of life and the game of football you can’t.