Seahawks vs Raiders: Is a Preseason Statement Win Possible?

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Football, Sports

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Seattle Seahawks are set to face the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday this week in a preseason showdown. The new coach is facing the former coach for the first time. Sure, it's only preseason, but is it possible to have a statement win before the regular season even starts? We talk about what we'd have to see for our Seahawks to come out and make a statement early on, even when the starters aren't going to be playing.

With Coach Mike Macdonald announcing that starters won't be playing, it does bring up some questions. Is it veterans who have started previously. Would there be any chance that a rookie like Grey Zabel wouldn't at least get some preseason reps in considering the jump in competition that he's looking to make? Are there other potential battles that we're interested in (even if it's on the other team). We discuss a few different storylines going into this week's matchup with the Raiders.

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0:00.0	This is the Seahawkers podcast.
0:09.1	I'm your host, Brandon Schultz, and I am joined today by my good buddy, Adam Emmert.
0:13.9	Adam, it's here.
0:15.8	It is the week leading up to the first preseason game.
0:19.7	We got preseason practice at Lumen Field out of the way.
0:22.6	It gives us a team an opportunity to, I don't know, see what it's like to go to the stadium,
0:27.1	especially if they haven't done it before.
0:29.2	That's out of the way that happened on Saturday.
0:31.8	And now here we are going into a week against the Las Vegas Raiders.
0:37.0	Yeah, a lot of exciting stuff.
0:38.3	And I know we are all on pins and needles kind of waiting for that first preseason game just to see these guys out in pads again, getting it done.
0:45.7	Because as you mentioned, they did the practice at Lumenfield in air quotes.
0:51.9	And it wasn't a mock game like we've done in the past, which is totally fine.
0:56.6	But yeah, it wasn't quite the same live game action.
0:59.8	But you got to see guys out there.
1:01.5	And it sounded like things went well enough.
1:04.8	I don't know.
1:05.5	I didn't hear like a lot come out of that where I was to get excited or not excited about
1:09.9	anything or just was kind of
1:11.5	like, yeah, we did practice.
1:12.6	Came out pretty even.
1:14.1	38 to 21.
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