Barely Relevant: Well, it’s over for the 2024 Seahawks

Gavin Feek is a writer from Seattle (now based in Los Angeles) who contributes to Field Gulls and Stab Magazine, as well as freelances for McSweeney's, Outside, and The Stranger. In addition to writing about the Seattle Seahawks for Field Gulls, Gavin works in the film industry.

Author’s note: This is the seventeenth installment of my weekly column, Barely Relevant.

Well, it’s over. And, for what it’s worth, the Seattle Seahawks had a pretty darn good year. Pretty darn good is a tough phrase to unpack, though, mostly because it doesn’t mean anything. How can something be pretty good? Something is either good or it isn’t. In that respect, anything under good is bad. Thus, pretty good = bad.…