Here’s a preview of Seattle’s regular-season opening game Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals.
THE SETUP
On paper, this looms as maybe the easiest win of the year for the Seahawks, Seattle listed as a 9.5-point favorite against a Bengals team in rebuild mode under first-year coach Zac Taylor. History also favors Seattle — the Seahawks haven’t lost a home opener since 2008. Seattle has lost its last two against the Bengals, including a 34-12 loss in Seattle in 2011, a game best-remembered as the first start for Richard Sherman and what became regarded as the true birth of the Legion of Boom secondary.