Seattle Seahawks Don't Deserve To Make Playoffs If They Beat the St. Louis Rams

If there was a football God, then this coming Sunday the St. Louis Rams would beat the Seattle Seahawks and would represent the NFC West in the National Football League playoffs. 

This would happen in a perfect world, a sub-.500 team wouldn’t make into the playoffs. The NFL definitely has more integrity than the NBA, right? They’d pay off the refs to keep Seattle, right?

I would sure hope so; they did during Super Bowl XL, after all.

If the past few weeks have taught us anything, the Seattle Seahawks are a really bad football team. They have no running game and the nickname for Marshawn Lynch is a joke. I’ve yet to see a Beast Mode out of him in numerous years.

Matt Hasselbeck is done and I’m not sure Charlie Whitehurst could beat out Jake Locker for a spot on the Huskies.

The Seahawks are 2-7 over the last nine games and are losing those seven games by an average of 22.7 points per game.

Today in Tampa Bay, they couldn’t even make it to 200 yards of offense, and on top of all that, gave up career days to both Josh Freeman and LeGarrette Blunt.

Seattle has the 31st-ranked rushing attack in all the NFL, gives up the third-most passing yards out of anybody and gives up almost 120 yards on the ground every Sunday.

Does this sound like a playoff team to you?

Matt Hasselbeck is starting to get into Brett Favre territory. Hasselbeck starts the game, gets hurt, doesn’t practice all week but manages to play just enough to throw four interceptions, give up a fumble and break a bone or come up with some other phantom injury.

It’s not like Pete Carroll and the other rah-rah coaching staff is helping much, either.

The Seahawks are third to last in fourth down conversion rate. Jeremy Bates seems to make the worst play-call at the worst possible time. Remember the 4th-and-inches call where he had Hasselbeck throw deep to a double-covered Deon Butler?

I do. I’m sure you haven’t forgotten, either.

Seahawks only convert 36 percent of their third downs, too.

If the Seahawks do beat the Rams, then they get to host the Falcons, Saints or Packers. Two of those teams already beat their brains in this season; the Packers would probably be up by 31 at halftime.

To make matters worse, the Giants and Buccaneers would be sitting at home watching this game after both these teams beat the Seahawks by more than 23 points each.

If Seattle was smart, they would forfeit their playoff spot to a more deserving team, a team that is likely to be competitive in the first round of the playoffs. No one wants to watch Seattle get their head bashed in and embarrassed during Wild Card Weekend.

Wild Card Weekend is a prestigious unofficial holiday for football fans. Some of the best football games are played during Wild Card Weekend. Sure, there are upsets, but it’s usually a 10-6 wild-card team beating an 11-5 overrated division winner, not a 7-9 trash football team facing a former Super Bowl champ or a team that makes really good pass defenses look bad.

Who is excited for a potential Kelly Jennings vs. Greg Jennings matchup?

Yeah, I thought so.