This is the Seahawkers podcast.

Episode 471.

I'm Brandon Schultz and I am joined by my good buddy, Adam Emmert.

Adam, it is time for our season expectations for our Seahawks in 2025.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing all right, man.

And we go into this show every year.

And there's some things that kind of remain the same in terms of the way maybe some of the folks outside of Seattle look at the team and, you know, our expectations.

But I think this year it's a little bit on steroids.

And I'm kind of fired up to do this this year more so than maybe others.

Because I feel like more than anything, the country is really sleeping on this collection of talent this year.

I could see that.

When you say that it's on steroids, exactly what do you mean by that?

Well, so the last few years, we've seen the over-unders in wind totals each year for the

Seahawks come out before the season.

And it's always laughably low.

But for example, like the first year, Gino was starting. I can't remember what they said it was. Was it like five and a half or six? Oh yeah, it had to be five and a half, six and a half. Yeah, somewhere in there. And obviously they outperform that by a good margin. Almost doubled it. But if you look at the talent of that team

as a whole, in comparison to the talent that's on this roster as a whole, I genuinely think

it's night and day, especially when you're thinking on the defensive side of the ball, it's

light years different in terms of where we are there. And so when I see wind totals like from

MGM, saying seven and a half on the year with this roster, I, it just, the discrepancy is bigger than ever.

And so it feels like it's on steroids because it does seem to me, Braden, I don't know if you feel the same way.

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