The Top Five Defining Moments of the Seahawks 2015 Season

Training Camp starts tomorrow, when the Seattle Seahawks will try to get back to the playoffs and beyond the Divisional Round. Let’s take a look back at five defining moments of last season to prepare us for 2016.

The Seattle Seahawks will start the annual Pete Carroll training camp tomorrow with the pursuit of greater playoff glory than last year fresh on their minds. Last season the Seahawks stumbled early before righting the ship and moving into the playoffs as the scariest team in the league. Still, their early-season defensive breakdowns and terrible offensive line play kept them behind the Arizona Cardinals in the division, costing them home field advantage and contributing to a tough postseason schedule. In the end, it only took one half of poor football on the road in Carolina to end the Seahawks’ season.

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The title of this piece is a little misleading. Rather than rank the top five defining moments of the Seattle Seahawks 2015 season, I’ve arranged five pivotal points in the season in chronological order to help you relive the ups and downs of last season with as much context as possible. We all remember the final moment, when the Carolina Panthers held on for dear life after a furious second-half comeback almost erased a 31-point deficit and eliminated the Seahawks from the playoffs in the Divisional Round. But how did we get to that point? Here are five defining moments, in chronological order, from last season:

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