500: Seahawks Super Bowl Window Then vs. Now — Lessons John Schneider Learned

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Episode 500 looks back at the Seattle Seahawks previous championship window to spot what fueled the decline from back-to-back Super Bowl appearances. The conversation centers on three of John Schneider's costly inflection points from 2013 to 2015: the Percy Harvin trade and contract (and the draft opportunity cost), sacrificing trench stability by trading Pro Bowl center Max Unger for Jimmy Graham, and focusing on perimeter talent while missing on investments in the trenches.

We revisit draft classes that produced limited impact in 2013 and 2014. And while the 2015 class was highlighted by Tyler Lockett and Frank Clark, they ended up moving on early from an offensive lineman who had a solid career with the Colts. We compare that era's heavy roster turnover to the current team's continuity. And Seattle appears to be avoiding splashy trades, prioritizing the right re-signings, and keeping flexibility to invest in the trenches to extend their window this time around.

In the second half of the show, we talk more about the schedule release and the potential timeline for the return of Zach Charbonnet. We also thank our members of the flock who have helped get us to 500 episodes of the years. The "unfairness" of the schedule is the focus of the Do Better segment along with the continued idea of Sam Darnold having to live up to higher expectations. Better at Life honors go out to Dr. Bobby Wagner and an example of how Seahawks fans have an impact on each other outside of football.

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0:00.0	This is the Seahawkers podcast.
0:09.4	Episode 500.
0:11.9	I'm Brandon Schultz of the military Seahawkers,
0:14.1	and I am joined by my good buddy in Montana Seahawker.
0:18.2	Adam Emmert.
0:19.2	I don't know what's crazy here, Brandon,
0:20.8	that we're on episode 500 or that we were crazy enough to do 500 episodes.
0:25.4	But here we are either way.
0:27.5	And we've been threatening this show for a while.
0:30.5	And I'm glad that we put it off until we did right now.
0:34.6	Because I do think the topic we're going to cover today.
0:37.7	We'll have more context since we've done this post draft and all of that.
0:42.3	So looking forward to getting into, Brandon, something that you came up with,
0:45.9	the idea that let's look back at what happened during our first championship run back
0:51.4	in 13, 14, 15, and how those off-seasons went, kind of the outcomes
0:56.5	of that, what we might be able to learn, what John Schneider has talked about, and compare it to
1:01.0	where we are now.
1:02.1	Well, one of the cool things that stood out, especially winning the Super Bowl, and it was
1:07.7	fed to us multiple times through what they were talking about in that John Schneider becoming the first general manager to win two Super Bowls with completely different teams.
1:19.5	Most of the time, once a general manager starts going downhill and starts nosediving with the franchise, he's gone.
1:27.4	That's right.
1:28.5	And we were in the unique position of Seahawks fans to where Pete Carroll was gone.
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