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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Each week we ask questions of the most plugged-in Seattle Seahawks fans and fans across the country. The results are in for this week’s Seahawks Reacts survey! Despite a tough loss to the Los Angeles Rams, fan confidence is still exceptionally high for the 7-3 Seahawks, who will have a chance at revenge in Seattle next month. Before the loss, polling was at 99 percent. This week, that number plummets all the way down to… 96! A much easier game (on paper) awaits for the Seahawks on Sunday, as the 1-9 Tennessee Titans serve as hosts and massive underdogs. It’d be nice if the 69 percent of responding Seahawks fans were correct and that Seattle did win by essentially two touchdowns or more. As for the NFC West race, which is currently the Rams’ to lose, most Seahawks fans surveyed still believe Seattle will in the division, but it’s hardly an overwhelming majority. Easy to understand when you consider it’ll be hard for the Seahawks to win a tiebreaker over the Rams even if they get the Week 16 rematch, so Seattle most likely has to be two games better than the Rams the rest of the way to get that crown. Don’t forget that the San Francisco 49ers are still lurking and have a much easier schedule than either LA or Seattle. Thanks for participating! We’ll see you next week!

The Seattle Seahawks stay on the road for a much less difficult game than facing the Los Angeles Rams. From the top of the NFC to the literal bottom of the NFL, Seattle takes on the Tennessee Titans (1-9) in a 10 am PT kickoff. FOX has the broadcast and to the surprise of no one, this ain’t a game that is seeing the light of day on regional networks outside of the local markets. 506 Sports has the color-coded maps out, and if you’re not in the green area (aka Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, and most of Tennessee), you’re out of luck when you turn on FOX. Kevin Kugler and Daryl Johnston are the commentators for the first time this season on a Seahawks game. They didn’t work any Seahawks contests last year, although Seahawks fans may have heard Kugler several times in 2022 and 2023 when paired with Mark Sanchez. I can safely say that Sanchez won’t be a part of any NFL broadcasts any time soon. The Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers take center stage as the lead FOX 10 am PT game. You can see the other maps and the remaining Week 12 commentators by heading over to 506 Sports.

The Seattle Seahawks’ loss against the Los Angeles Rams needs to generate lessons learned, but it can’t reverberate forever. The focus needs to be on the Tennessee Titans. The Tennessee team has only one win this season, against the Arizona Cardinals, in a bizarre game. The last 8 Seahawks-Tennessee games have been decided by one possession. The idea is that this game will be different, but in sports anything is possible, especially in a highly competitive league like the NFL.It’s a game to regain confidence and get back in the hunt for a playoff spot. Let’s Go! Titans Roster Analysis There are no 100% bad rosters in the NFL. The Titans have Jeffery Simmons, one of the best DTs in the league. Furthermore, there are other useful/interesting players on the roster. Cody Barton is a good LB, Arden Key a good EDGE, rookie safety Kevin Winston has stood out. On offense, Elic Ayomanor and Chimere Dike are good receivers, as is rookie Gunnar Helm. On the offensive line, there’s still Kevin Zeitler and Peter Skoronski. Both were in the conversation about being traded, including to Seattle, but both remained with the Titans, especially Peter, who is a young player to protect Cam Ward in the future. Causing discomfort for the rookie QB The Seahawks are among the teams that apply the most pressure in the league. The pressure, even if it doesn’t result in a sack, disrupts the processing of QBs, especially rookies. The center allowed the most sacks at his position, Dan Moore is the offensive tackle with the most sacks allowed, and JC Latham, with half the snaps of Moore, is in the top six in sacks allowed. Good opportunity for the edge rushers. Here we have the example of Jayden Daniels. Deebo Samuel’s route, #1, is open behind Tyrice Knight. Easy read and simple pass, but Daniels was under pressure so many times during the game that it makes him hesitate, and this allows the sack to happen. This affects even more experienced QBs. Matt Stafford, seeing no options due to the good work of the secondary, tries to trigger the checkdown, but without success, due to the pressure. Here we see Cam Ward’s processing. He basically has two open routes. He hesitates, and this allows the pressure to arrive and turn what would be a gain into a sack. Again, with the free dig, Ward tries to improvise nonsensically, and still manages to connect, but in a much more complicated play, throwing from his own end zone. Another opportunity for the offense The Seahawks have 20 turnovers. If that number doesn’t change, their playoff run will be threatened. Even in easier games, the offense has found ways to give the ball away to the opponent. The Seahawks are the favorites, but one way to try to complicate this game is with turnovers. Furthermore, it’s another opportunity to attack with outside zones and finally create CONSISTENCY in the running game. The interior of the Seahawks offensive line should have problems Jeffery Simmons may not play, but if he does, he will be the biggest obstacle for the interior of the offensive line. Olu Oluwatimi is a backup, Anthony Bradford is one of the worst starters in the league, and Christian Haynes couldn’t even beat Bradford in the competition for the starting RG. Despite the imminent nightmare, I wouldn’t rush Grey Zabel’s return in this game. Final Thoughts The Seahawks need to focus on this game. The only way they can lose is with turnovers or by going in with the idea that everything is already won. The team has demonstrated this focus before, let’s see if they can do it again. I believe the defense has already shown that it deserves the trust. They played good games even with absences. Now it’s time for the offense to show if it’s capable of keeping this team in the game when necessary.

The Seattle Seahawks have won every game they’ve played this season except for the ones wherein catastrophic turnover timing has doomed them. Actually, they’ve won a couple of those as well. At 20 turnovers, the Seahawks now lead the NFL in the least-desired category that exists, except losses, I suppose. Sam Darnold has already called it “unacceptable” – which it is for a team that has been competitive in a 10-0 attempt. Falling short a couple of times and making two others much closer than they need to be, the final obstacle that faces Seattle’s playoff outlook this season is their own inability to keep the football. And the Tennessee Titans aren’t going to help. After the Rams' 4 interceptions against Seattle in Week 11, they now own the league’s 2nd‑best turnover differential: pic.twitter.com/cNZ2fYAlEa— Wyatt Miller (@wymill07) November 18, 2025 It’s been rather popular in the Seattle sports scene this week to call the upcoming match against the Titans a “get right game.” Multiple outlets from 710 radio to the Sea Hawkers Podcast – whom I like very much, by the way – have used the popular sports idiom. I’d like to present one counter-argument before the events of this weekend leave the Seahawks with another 15+ point victory and the NFL’s top point-differential heralds them as just fine. Simply that Tennessee sucks so bad that Sam Darnold won’t get any meaningful growth out of the game. During his lament this week, Darnold said the first phrase that really bummed me out all season. Here, again as I’m sure you’ve seen it, is the quote: “Just having a better understanding when the ball’s snapped [of] what the coverage is and when a guy is going to come open and when he’s not. When I say ‘get stuck on a progression,’ I mean just seeing one side of the field and feeling like there’s a chance that someone’s going to get open over there rather than just moving on and clicking through my progression as I normally do.” Darnold has been a true champion of team-oriented leadership this season. I’ve loved the change at QB, as it sounds much of the roster has as well. He takes responsibility, doesn’t boast, doesn’t give things away. This though was a worry because it’s the closest thing to confirming fears that many have had all season. In the most meaningful games, against the most challenging teams, will Sam Darnold play differently? Did not like the admission from the quarterback that he did. Did not like it at all. And here’s why the Titans do absolutely nothing to solve this. They’re bad. Specifically, they’re just not a complicated, cohesive, blue-chip defense at all. And so the Seahawks can go out there and “solve” their run game with 185 yards for three TDs, or Darnold can have a turnover-free 300 yards and we can all come back here next week proclaiming “fixed!” But that is not the real issue, is it? Darnold destroys bad teams. In fact, he plays pretty well against good teams, too. Since beating them, the Houston Texans have become the NFL’s number 1 defense, and it was just four weeks ago that the offense was (mostly) unbothered by Will Anderson and Darnold made Derek Stingley look more like Tedric Thompson. What Darnold has suffered against is not something that will be fixed against the Titans. Tennessee has only forced 5 interceptions, 26 sacks, and just two fumbles. They don’t disguise anything particularly well, their only true top-end talent on defense is Jeffery Simmons, just coming off injury. Injuries in the secondary have further exacerbated a consistency communication problems. Their most interceptions come from Cody Barton (3) and their second-most sacks from Dre’Mont Jones (4.5), who was traded to the Baltimore Ravens. In short, this is one of those lose-lose scenarios as far as what it will tell us or how it will help Seattle. Specifically because Darnold and the offenses’ only red flag is turning the ball over against high-complex and cohesive defenses (the Rams) or fumbling against elite pass rush (Nick…