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This time next year, the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks will be watching the big game on TVs at their homes or in some hotel in L.A. or Orange County, as many of them will already be in California as participants in the final NFL Pro Bowl.
Wondering what happened. How they didn’t repeat. How this generation’s best defense allowed another team to beat them in their quest to be further engraved in NFL history.
(Part of the Seahawks’ non-repeat, outside of losing Klint Kubiak as OC, might be the NFL not wanting the most joyless, all-chill-personality champions in this modern-day turn-up football history to have the final spotlight on them two Februarys in a row.