The thing about the NFL season is the sample size. It’s so small. A 16-game schedule is a brutally long, and unjustly short, season. A couple funky bounces turn a 7-9 team into a 9-7 late playoff entrant who then plows through the field en route to a Lombardi.
So doing home-road splits through six games feels underhanded, even dirty, like you’re trying to weasel a dubious narrative onto the menu, just because you can drench it in a salty statistical sauce.
However, there is something special about this Seattle Seahawks defense when it travels.