For a regular season game for a team that has already won a division title, Saturday’s Seahawks’ loss to Arizona was about as costly as a loss can be.
Specifically, the game knocked Seattle out of the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs and meant that the Seahawks no longer control their own destiny to get the No. 2 seed.
That’s important because that would mean not getting a bye in the wild card round and would also mean that if Seattle wins in the wild card round it would have to go on the road in the divisional round.