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RENTON, Wash. – While building a new culture in Seattle, head coach Mike Macdonald has consistently emphasized playing a physical style of football nobody wants to deal with.

RENTON, Wash. – DK Metcalf’s matchup Sunday with Denver cornerback Patrick Surtain garnered all kinds of online discussion.

SEATTLE – The Seahawks entered the weekend in the bottom three in the NFL in available cap space remaining for the 2024 season.

The Seattle Seahawks are 1-0 under new coach Mike Macdonald after a 26-20 victory at Lumen Field on Sunday. And all there is to say at this point is … They’re lucky they played the Broncos.

SEATTLE – Halftime in the Seattle Seahawks locker room on Sunday had to go something like this:

SEATTLE – Mike Macdonald walked swiftly off the field Sunday holding his left index finger aloft and telling the remaining crowd, “That’s one. That’s one.”

Seahawks vs. Denver Broncos

In Mike Macdonald's 37 years — an age that makes him the youngest head coach in the NFL in 2024 and the youngest in Seahawks history — the one constant has been football. "Actually my first memory is throwing a football," he said in August following a training-camp practice. He paused, trying to recall more vividly that moment.

The running game, led by Kenneth Walker III, will be among the keys for Seattle in 2024.

Today’s example of hyperbolizing a small sample of preseason football into largely unsubstantiated significance for impending regular-season games: Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith’s five plays against the Cleveland Browns. Five passes. Four completions. One touchdown. One minute, 55 seconds of play.

By just about any objective measure, the Seahawks had two of the most productive rookie classes in the NFL each of the last two seasons. The 2022 class played 4,868 snaps, the second-most in the NFL, and produced an unexpected Pro Bowler in fifth-round cornerback Riq Woolen. Last year's class didn't play quite as much, though still a lot, at 3,719 snaps.