Preseason Week P1: vs. Buffalo Bills Week P2: at San Francisco 49ers Week P3: vs. Arizona Cardinals Week P4: at Indianapolis Colts Regular season Week 1: vs. Detroit Lions Mike Holmgren’s debut as Seahawks head coach was a 28-20 loss to a Detroit Lions team playing without now-retired
Barry Sanders and which had beaten him as
Packers coach the year before at
The Silverdome. Despite scoring two touchdowns in the final ten minutes
Jon Kitna failed on a fourth down attempt in the final minute.
Week 2: at Chicago Bears Glenn Foley started and threw two touchdowns in the final quarter erasing a 13-0 Bears lead. The Bears drove down in the final 2:42 but
Brian Gowins’ missed 48-yard kick secured Holmgren’s first win as Seahawks coach (and third straight win over the Bears).
Week 3: at Pittsburgh Steelers The Seahawks finished their two-game road trip by intercepting
Kordell Stewart three times (ex-Niner
Merton Hanks scored on the first pick not three minutes in) and
Mike Tomczak twice while kicker
Todd Peterson booted five field goals and running back
John Edward Rogers caught a Steelers punt at his six and scored, in a 29-10 romp.
Week 4: vs. Oakland Raiders Rich Gannon led three touchdown drives for the Raiders in the game’s first thirty-five minutes; in that span
Jon Kitna had a touchdown to
Derrick Mayes (a two-point try to
Sean Dawkins failed), a field goal drive and an interception, but in a roughly eleven minute span down 21-9 Kitna threw another touchdown (to
Reggie Brown) and two successful field goals. The Raiders got the ball back with forty-five seconds left but a 61-yard kick missed for the 22-21 Seahawks win.
Week 6: at San Diego Chargers The Seahawks fell 13-10 at
Jack Murphy Stadium on a missed field goal attempt and two punts in the fourth quarter. Despite interceptions on four straight possessions encompassing the third quarter and part of the fourth
Erik Kramer led the Chargers to two field goals, the game winner on the final play.
Week 7: vs. Buffalo Bills Jon Kitna’s two touchdowns and three
Todd Peterson field goals put the Seahawks ahead of the Bills 23-0, enough to withstand two
Doug Flutie touchdowns; on Buffalo’s last two possessions Flutie was sacked, fumbling the ball once.
Week 8: at Green Bay Packers Once fellow members of
Bill Walsh’s staff on the Forty-Niners,
Mike Holmgren faced his former defensive coordinator and now successor as Packers head coach
Ray Rhodes.
Shawn Springs’ blocked punt touchdown and
Corey Bradford’s 74-yard catch opened a 7-7 game that then became a Seahawks rout as
Brett Favre was intercepted four times and benched for
Matt Hasselbeck. The 27-7 win left the Seahawks 5-2. Entering
2023 this was the last time the Seahawks defeated the Packers at
Lambeau Field.
Week 9: vs. Cincinnati Bengals Week 10: vs. Denver Broncos Week 11: at Kansas City Chiefs Week 12: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Seahawks season started turning for the worse in a 16-3 loss to the Buccaneers.
Jon Kitna had a dismal day with five interceptions and just 197 yards.
Week 13: at Oakland Raiders The Raiders clawed to a 17-0 lead and Seattle’s comeback attempt resulted in three touchdowns, two turnovers, and a 30-21 loss
Week 14: vs. San Diego Chargers After the Seahawks clawed out a 16-13 lead the Chargers booted two additional field goals and the Seahawks fumbled once and missed three kicks of their own on their final four possessions; they thus had squandered an 8-2 start and at 8-5 were tied with
Kansas City atop the AFC West.
Week 15 at Denver Broncos The wildest game of the year (66 combined points a season high for both teams) occurred at
Mile High Stadium. It was mostly a battle of
Jason Elam and
Todd Peterson field goals until the final four minutes saw the Seahawks outscore the Broncos 13-7; Seattle’s final ten points came in the final 62 seconds on a touchdown, onside kick, and field goal. In overtime
Jon Kitna was strip sacked and
Glenn Cadrez scored; the 36-30 loss now left the Seahawks’ playoff hopes in the air st 8-6.
Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs Week 17: at New York Jets Postseason Seattle entered the postseason as the #3 seed in the AFC.
AFC Wild Card Playoff: vs. #6 Miami Dolphins In what was the final game played at the Kingdome, the Seahawks lost to Dan Marino and the Dolphins, giving up the lead with just under 5 minutes to play. This was Marino's final playoff win in his career, and the final playoff game for Seattle as an AFC team. ==References==