Seahawks Bottom 10 in Viewership

[Cyrus12]

I think I started a thread about this before about how boring our team has become.

It was boring when Russ wanted to cook too. Hopefully with a regime change it gets more exciting again. 6 -3 thrillers vs bottom end teams is a tough watch.

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

That’s not exactly what I said but the red zone execution was embarrassing

Just like the sith we only think in absolutes around here bud

 

[AROS]

3-6 home record.

'Nuff said.

 

[ZagHawk]

I barely watch games these days. Geno is a major reason. If the offense looked useless in the first half, I already knew it wasn't going to get better and took the 1.5-2 hours back in my life to do something else productive. If the game was down to the final series and Geno desperately needed a TD winning drive to win or even tie from the Seahawks 20...same deal. I saw enough games where Geno would drive up the field, and then throw a pick at the end.

Call me a hater or non believer. But I think we all watched so many games play out exactly like that, and Geno did not appear to get better/smarter. Same excuses...Oh the line didn't give him enough time.

As others have said, this is a boring team to watch. Time is precious. I can spend 3-4 hours glued to a seat frustrated watching a boring average team trying to be delusional convincing myself i am a true fan better than my peers. Or i can take that time back in my life and spend it with my family, completing a house project that's long overdue, or even working out. Things that will actually benefit my life.

All that being said, I am still optimistic this team can get it together, but we got another season or so and JS better make some GOOD moves in the off-season building the lines and drafting a QB to start in 2026-27. I think we got one more season of Geno...btw they're still not writing him for a reason.

 

[ZagHawk]

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Interesting...

Add On:

If our own fanbase won't even watch our team...the general NFL fanbase certainly does not care about the Seahawks as well. Let's keep this in mind when the media gives zero Fs about our team even next year. It's not a bias, our team is just not interesting, so why waste precious airtime about them. The good thing is...if/when the attention comes back, it'll be because the team forced them all to pay attention.

 

[kidhawk]

3-6 home record.

'Nuff said.

I don’t know why people are so concerned about home vs away, 4 of those 6 home losses were against playoff teams and we weren’t a playoff team this year. Rams, Bills, Vikings and Packers were better than us. If we’d flipped who we played at home or away I don’t think it changes our wins/losses.

 

[Wheetie]

It isn't the same game that I grew up watching and playing. Mobile running quarterbacks that draw flags for last second slides into perplexed tacklers? Facemask calls for grabbing the ball carrier's shoulder pads and flipping him around? Unnecessary roughness when two defensive linemen collide above the downed QB, missing him entirely? Every time I see something like that, I mute and go back to browsing the computer, looking for something less aggravating to watch. There is way, way, way, way too much subjectivity in penalties which allows a clear avenue for covert, unchallengeable, unquestioned influence by the league's new partners, online betting. Point shaving has never been easier. How often do you see defensive backs grab a receiver to yield an automatic first down? Answer: Every damn game. You couldn't ask for an easier way to affect the outcome without your integrity being questioned.

It isn't the same game, it reeks of potential coercion, and it isn't entertaining to watch.

Exactly. The NFL is a multi- billion dollar industry and yet they allow horribly bad calls to affect outcomes week in and week out. All the pomp and circumstance the players and coaches go through during the year preparing can all be nullified by 1 bad take from an official to end a season. The NFL has the means to fix it, they just obviously don't care to. So if they don't care, why should I care? I used to never miss games, Thursday, Saturday, Sundays, Monday, PVR was a good friend. Now this season I may have watched half of just the Seahawks games and very, very few other teams at all. My interest in the whole scene has seriously eroded because of the officiating.

 

[GeekHawk]

Holy shit. What a bunch of pathetic whiny losers.

 

[AROS]

I don’t know why people are so concerned about home vs away, 4 of those 6 home losses were against playoff teams and we weren’t a playoff team this year. Rams, Bills, Vikings and Packers were better than us. If we’d flipped who we played at home or away I don’t think it changes our wins/losses.

Because you really should own your home games, hence "home field advantage". We used to dominate at home...I seem to recall 8-0 at home, 7-1s, etc. When I was still attending the home games as a STH, one of the primary factors to me was knowing I could almost always count on walking out of the stadium a happy man.

With all the money we spend attending games, you want to know your investment will be rewarded. Sure, it's not guaranteed, but having been so dominant at home to inexplicably losing more at home than winning (and more bizarrely seeing them win most of their games on the road), it's a factor, and to me, it matters.

 

[chris98251]

Seahawks - Star Power Nationally not much there yet, you have to have statement games in Prime Time to start getting that, LOB, Wilson Hero Ball most Recent and then Lynch with all his uniqueness.

Winning - Died hards support them, casuals and Bandwagoneers not so much, we have not been winning at home and our style has been watching a water faucet drip to fill a pool versus turning a hose on, uninspiring even if record says we are winning, it's better than losing but the effect is much the same. Not good TV.

 

[Jville]

I don’t know why people are so concerned about home vs away, 4 of those 6 home losses were against playoff teams and we weren’t a playoff team this year. Rams, Bills, Vikings and Packers were better than us. If we’d flipped who we played at home or away I don’t think it changes our wins/losses.

Add to that: The team was transitioning from headliner Head Coach Pete Carroll to Rookie Head Coach Mike Macdonald.

Expanding thread perspective, consider actual stadium attendance rankings:

Home Field attendance ranked #9
Visiting Field attendance ranked #26th
Combined Field attendance ranked #14

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2024/attendance.htm

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Add On:

If our own fanbase won't even watch our team...the general NFL fanbase certainly does not care about the Seahawks as well. Let's keep this in mind when the media gives zero Fs about our team even next year. It's not a bias, our team is just not interesting, so why waste precious airtime about them. The good thing is...if/when the attention comes back, it'll be because the team forced them all to pay attention.

Yep. Instead of pants they will wear backward thongs and it will start a revolution along with the class revolution that will alter the course of history.

 

[flv2]

Teams on the West Coast are going to have fewer viewers because the population is lower compared to the East Coast. Of the West Coast teams Seattle is least favourably located to generate new fans. I'd expect the Seahawks to be bottom 6 in terms of a tv draw. This is no disrespect to Seattle, their fans, or the franchise. The Packers, Steelers, Raiders, 49ers, and Cowboys have a storied history that bumps their tv numbers. The Seahawks @ Bears game didn't generate new fans for 2025. For the Seahawks to draw tv viewers they need an elite offensive unit, an elite defensive unit, or a face of the franchise.

Don't take it personally. I'd expect the 2 Los Angeles teams and Arizona to be in the bottom 3.

 

[JayhawkMike]

Most league star power resides in the QB positio. Geno’s star power is zero. No non-Seahawks fan is ever going to tune in to watch a Seahawks game because they HAVE to watch Geno. Ever.

 

[KinesProf]

They're not an enjoyable watch right now. And with two pre-teen boys and all of their team sports/volunteer activities, it is rare that I watch Seahawks games live anymore. I'm not sure how it is reflected in viewership numbers, but most weeks I am recording the Hawks game and with the option to jump from snap to snap and fast forward commercial breaks I can watch entire Hawks games in an hour or so.

When it comes to going to games, if schedule permits around my kids activities, we'll still prioritize going to the good weather games in September and October.

It was the rare treat this weekend getting to watch almost all four of the games live in their entirety. It was some great ball, and highly enjoyable.

 

[RiverDog]

There are several factors in those rankings besides the popularity of the team, and at least one anomaly that doesn't add up.

First of all, Prime Time makes a huge difference. The Cowboys always get a bunch of Prime-Time games because they are the most popular team in the country playing in one of the largest markets, so even if they have a down year like they had this season, they still draw viewers. A lot of people like me aren't Cowboy fans but love to watch them lose. It's no coincidence that the Panthers finished dead last in viewers and had zero Prime Time games.

Obviously, the success of the team draws viewers. That's why the Lions lead the league in viewership, because they're one of the better teams in the league. Same with the Chiefs.

The anomaly that doesn't add up is the Colts. They do not have a nationwide following, are in a relatively small market, and had just one Prime Time game, had a losing record, no major star, yet they attracted more viewers than did the Jets, who had a league high 6 Prime Time games, are in the nation's biggest TV market, and had a recognizable "star" in Aaron Rodgers. So go figure.

And by the way, the Seahawks and the Broncos were the only two teams in the bottom 11 of TV viewership that had winning records. The Broncos have an excuse in that they had just 2 games in Prime Time while we had 4, so obviously, our new regime has its work cut out to win back the confidence of its fans.

FYI here are the number of Prime-Time games for each team for the 2024 regular season:

6: NYJ, SF, DAL
5: KC, BUF, GB, DET, CIN, BAL, PHI, MIA, LAR
4: HOU, PIT, TB, SEA, ATL, CLE
3: NYG, CHI, LAC, NO
2: MIN, LV, WSH, DEN, JAX
1: IND, NE, ARZ, TEN
0: CAR

 

[kidhawk]

Because you really should own your home games, hence "home field advantage". We used to dominate at home...I seem to recall 8-0 at home, 7-1s, etc. When I was still attending the home games as a STH, one of the primary factors to me was knowing I could almost always count on walking out of the stadium a happy man.

With all the money we spend attending games, you want to know your investment will be rewarded. Sure, it's not guaranteed, but having been so dominant at home to inexplicably losing more at home than winning (and more bizarrely seeing them win most of their games on the road), it's a factor, and to me, it matters.

We were also the better team for a very long time. This was the first year under a new regime. We weren’t that good. We won the games we should have won and lost the games we should have lost. The only outlier was really the Giants game and that game, IMO, was what caused us to make big changes in our defense. Our defense began to play much better after those changes. If our offense would have been nearly at the level we all thought, we could have been a contender and maybe won some of those tougher games.

If you want to win against playoff teams you have to outplay them. We need to be the better team to win those games. Fans can cause a few 5 yard penalties and can help pump up a defense but that doesn’t translate to automatic wins. You still need to score more points than your opposition and we weren’t good enough to do that against playoff teams this year. This is why the poor record at home and why I never saw us as a contender. I do believe we are headed in the right direction and if we make the right hire for our OC we will be winning some of those games next season.

 

[retro74]

Like others have said there’s no reason for neutrals to tune in for Seattle. No box office big-time players at all

 

[WestCoastChippewa]

Would've been the same if Seahawks went 17-0. Schedule and TV are set before regular season. This was the first year in like 10 years that the Seahawks weren't on local TV here in Alaska.

 

[oldhawkfan]

This article has less to do with on field performance than it does with market share. Sure, a better product will certainly produce an increase in viewers. An increase in viewers for Seahawks games wouldn’t create an increase in Seahawks fans. It would just increase interest across the NFL community. Population density plays a major role.

The real question is, how much would a Super Bowl winning team increase the fan base? I would argue not much. At least in terms of real fans. If Detroit could have made it farther in the playoffs and even won the owl, they would have a lot more fans. I would have been one of them. At least for a day.

If any of you are wringing your hands over lack of numbers in invested fans, I’m sorry to tell you that not much will change that. Another Super Bowl would certainly increase the fan base. But how solid would that fan base be? Just prior to and following the XLVIII win, there were definitely more Seahawks fans. Did they stick around? Probably not for most.

When we see an increase in fans, it’s mostly an increase in bandwagon fans. Die hards just don’t come and go.