Over the last two seasons, I used the Whatifsports engine to simulate the 1992 Seattle Seahawks against the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the 2013 Seahawks. Naturally, this produced some truly lopsided outcomes.
This year’s summertime edition figures to be much more competitive and actually compelling. It’s the Super Bowl champion Seahawks against the 2005 squad that won the franchise’s first ever conference championship. On one side you have MVP Shaun Alexander, the HOFer Walter Jones, potential HOFer Steve Hutchinson, prime Matt Hasselbeck, and rookie Lofa Tatupu. The other side has Russell Wilson, Beast Mode, the prime Legion of Boom, Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, Bobby Wagner, K.