Seahawks History: Will This Year's Team Be Better Than the 2005 Version?

If you ask real Seahawks fans, they will tell you that 2005 was by far the best season in Seahawks history. One main reason was their trip to SB XL. Now unlike the Arizona Cardinals this season, the Seahawks earned a spot in the Super Bowl. The Seahawks were great on both sides of the football, having a very explosive offense and a stone-wall defense. Now if you watched the first four games of the Seahawks' 05 season, you would have thought that they were definitely not going to be in the Super Bowl or make the playoffs. The Seahawks started out going 2-2, with wins against Jim Mora's Falcons and the Arizona Cardinals. They suffered losses to Jacksonville in Week 1 and Washington in Week 4. But after that they took off, winning their next 11 straight games, and as one former Seahawk put it, "we have developed a fear of losing." Well, let's look at how the Seahawks won 11 straight games. Week 5 vs. St Louis (37-31): Hasselbeck had 316 yards passing and two touchdown passes with zero ... (link)