Playing in a Super Bowl wasn’t part of what the Seattle Seahawks did when Brock Huard was on the roster, but the former pro quarterback is in no doubt about where the 2025 version of the team belongs in NFL history.
A third-round pick in the 1999 draft, Huard made a bold claim about the legacy of the team that dominated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX. He even included an encouraging prediction about any possible repeat of the 29-13 victory at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday, February 8.
Huard spelled things out in a to-the-point social media post shortly after the game, telling fans, “The numbers say it Your eyes see it This wasn’t just the best Seahawks team in history, this is one of the Top Ten best teams in NFL history And they aren’t going anywhere.”
Those are bold statements, but a few shocking stats back up what Huard says about the historical legacy of these Seahawks. Even if the chances of them quickly claiming another Vince Lombardi Trophy might be hampered by an inevitable defection and potential further exits.
Stats Show Seahawks Belong With History’s Best
The Seahawks were supposed to dominate the Patriots and that’s what they did to earn a spot among the greatest Super Bowl champions. Such greatness was assured by the Seahawks having “trailed for 1:35 seconds this postseason,” according to SEC Network’s Cole Cubelic, who pointed out this “is the fewest amount of time trailing by a Super Bowl champion since” Washington’s 1991 team dominated all opponents.
Space has also been made next to another legendary Super Bowl team now “The @Seahawks (101 points scored, 46 allowed) are the first team to score 100+ and allow fewer than 50 in an @NFL postseason since the 2002 @Buccaneers scored 106 and allowed 37 in a similarly dominant Super Bowl run,” per NFL Network’s Jack Andrade.
There are similarities between the Seahawks and Washington in ’91, as well as those 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The latter were dominant defensively, just like these Seahawks, who made Patriots quarterback Drake Maye look like anything but a credible MVP candidate.
Seattle’s formidable defense was as advertised, but the offense, while nowhere close to as spectacular, was efficient on a historic scale. So much so, “the Seahawks are the first Super Bowl champion to go their entire postseason run without committing a turnover,” according to ESPN Insights.
Washington’s juggernaut of 34 years ago was a similar model of efficiency. Like that team, the Seahawks flexed their dominance first by exerting total control over the regular season.
Both teams won 14 games before the playoffs, and the Seahawks’ “three losses were by a combined 9 points. Did not lose by more than 4 points all season long,” per The Ringer’s Sheil Kapadia.
The numbers inform the clearest verdict possible. This year’s Seahawks were the class of the NFL and played at a level worthy of history’s best.
Now the challenge becomes maintaining the same awesome levels, a task made harder by how much things might change.
Change Can Wreck Seattle Repeat Bid
Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak leaving to become head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders is the first domino to fall for the Seahawks. Kubiak’s scheme, a devilish combination of a common sense run-pass balance and some subtle designs, will be difficult to replicate with another play-caller.
It will be tougher still if Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker III is no longer around to power the offense like he did by rushing for 135 yards against the Pats. Walker’s a free agent who earned himself a big payday, but perhaps one too rich for a Seahawks front office also needing to address the futures of other key free agents.
They include flexible edge-rusher Boye Mafe, versatile defensive backs Josh Jobe and Coby Bryant, as well as wide receiver, kick returner Rashid Shaheed, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
None of the names on the list are the team’s stars, bar Walker, but every Super Bowl champion loses valuable core players who cash in after the big win. Head coach Mike Macdonald has already lost one of his key architects of the plan that baffled Mike Vrabel and the Patriots, but the Seahawks can’t risk seeing too many building blocks of their historic success disappear.
Not if they’re going to stick around in the Super Bowl picture like Huard believes.
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