5 NFL teams that will definitely disappoint fans in 2023

3. Seattle Seahawks (last year: 9-8)

One of the biggest surprises in the entire NFL last season was undoubtedly the Seattle Seahawks. Although the Seahawks didn’t win the NFC East, they made it to the playoffs and won twice as many games as most people were projecting for this team.

After the trade of Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos, people thought the Seahawks were packing it in for a year and set to reload the roster in 2022-23 with a new quarterback potentially coming high in one of those two NFL Draft classes.

Well, the Seahawks didn’t draft any quarterbacks with their high selections. They stuck with Geno Smith and Drew Lock last year and let those two guys compete for the starting position throughout the preseason. It was Smith who emerged from that competition victorious, and obviously, one of the NFL’s best stories of last season was born.

Smith not only won the starting QB job in Seattle, but he ended up winning the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year Award.

Despite Geno’s resurgence last year, I think the Seahawks are one of the top five teams poised to disappoint fans in 2023. Again, progression is not always linear in the NFL. The Seahawks overachieved last year but will they do it again this coming season? Can Geno Smith repeat what we saw a year ago? Can he even come close?

I’m not buying it just yet. The Seahawks started off really hot last year winning six of their first nine games before losing six of their final nine including the postseason. The three wins the Seahawks notched in the second half of last season came against the hapless Rams (two wins) and New York Jets.

I just don’t see the Seahawks returning to the form we saw from them in the first two months of last season, at least not consistently.