To a degree, Seahawks fans brought it on themselves. True--last year nobody did believe in us, but this year we were favorites to return to the SB and a lot of "mediots" were even talking dynasty. Well, here we are, and yet the butthurt has only ratcheted up 10x. I soak up hours of NFL content every day, and the inability to turn off the "chip on the shoulder" complex even when the country finally believes in you has turned the entire NFL pundit 'industry' against us. Yes, I know 500 people say "I don't care" to that, but clearly we do or we wouldn't continually spend half our energy railing against the media and how they don't like us or believe in us.
What I see at the end of the 2014 season are people who believe(d) in us as a team, but who are now so turned off by the endless butthurt that they actually dislike us and want us to lose. It is a bummer, but now everyone's got a bone to pick with us about everything--we're not one of the best defenses ever, RW's post-NFCCG tears are fake, Doug Baldwin's nuts, Lynch is an immature weirdo, we don't have the horses to run with NE, and so on. I don't even think journos believe this--I just think some of 'us' behaved ourselves like such precious asses even in the wake of 43-8 that an entire industry turned against us, which in turn will validate the butthurt. Vicious cycle.