The Seahawks thought they'd be spending their Sunday recovering from a game and looking ahead to a Divisional Round matchup, the next step on what they expected to be a deep playoff run.
Instead, players had a final team meeting of the season on Sunday before packing up their lockers and heading home for the offseason. Saturday's loss to the Rams was an abrupt end to a promising season that saw the Seahawks finish 12-4, their best record since they went to the Super Bowl six seasons ago, and a day later players were still having a hard time wrapping their heads around an early postseason exit.
"It's a lot to process," said linebacker Bobby Wagner. "There's a lot going on, it's a long season, there's a lot put into the season. I definitely felt like we had the group to go further than what we did. It feels weird that we're done, I didn't expect that, I didn't think that at all. So I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it."
Linebacker K.J. Wright, the team's longest-tenured player who wrapped up his 10th season with the Seahawks, thought this was the team to get back to the Super Bowl, or at least past the divisional round, which is the furthest the Seahawks have advanced since the 2014 season that ended with a Super Bowl loss to New England.
"Out of all the years since we lost to New England, I thought that this year was our best chance of going (to the Super Bowl)," Wright said. "I truly felt like we had all the pieces, we had all the confidence in the world to go back. Twelve-and-four, that's a really good season, it's just unfortunate that yesterday was just one of them days, and we faced a really good opponent. We know that playoff time is going to always be tough, but the way that we fell short, I'm still in shock that we lost in the first round. I'm like, 'OK we at least will go to the NFC Championship, and see what happens then,' but it's very frustrating, it's very disappointing. We've got to get better. We've got to get better and we've got to find ways to just get to those playoff moments and just make it happen, because somebody's got to be there, and I felt like it should have been us this year."
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