As NFL fans finally learned of their team’s full 2023 schedule on Thursday, the big reveal drew a contentious reaction from Seahawks fans over a notably tough stretch of games scheduled for the final seven weeks of the season.
Seattle, the NFC’s No. 7 seed in 2022, will enter the pivotal final month of the campaign facing a brutal Week 11 to Week 13 schedule. After facing the Rams on the road on Nov. 19, the Seahawks will play back-to-back Thursday night games, first against the visiting 49ers in a primetime Thanksgiving Day matchup on Nov. 23 followed by the Cowboys in a Nov. 30 matchup in Dallas on Thursday Night Football.
Much to chagrin of the 12s, the news confirmed a rumor previously circulated by Seahawks receiver Tyler Lockett earlier in the day. The veteran wideout shared a tweet revealing the club is scheduled to play three games in 12 days, including consecutive TNF games, this upcoming season according to his “sources”–a presumed nod to the tagged handle of teammate and safety Quandre Diggs.
“According to my sources Seahawks have back to back Thursday games. 3 games in 12 days! @qdiggs6,“ wrote Lockett.
According to my sources Seahawks have back to back Thursday games. 3 games in 12 days! @qdiggs6
— Tyler Lockett (@TDLockett12) May 11, 2023
With their team’s whirlwind 12-day schedule officially confirmed, Seahawks fans now have a better idea of how their team earned the No. 1 spot on a Thursday report concerning every team’s expected travel mileage this upcoming season.
According to ESPN, Seattle will travel a total of 31,600 miles for their games this fall and winter, the most in the NFL. The Seahawks will be the only team set to top the 30K-mile mark, with the 49ers and Seahawks rounding out the top three with 29,958 and 27,110 miles, respectively.
Seahawks will travel 31,600 miles this season, the most in the NFL, per @billsperos.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 10, 2023
Here’s how much each team will travel prior to the NFL’s full schedule release Thursday. pic.twitter.com/GTz6CU3idh
While the daunting stretch may still be months away, the Seahawks fanbase still had plenty to say about their team’s unlucky draw. Check below for the best reactions of the bunch:
yall really gonna give us two TNF games in a row and the bye week ISNT the week after??
— sydney 🦊 (@lgbtqsyd) May 12, 2023
3 games in 11 days!?!?
— Tanner Cockerill (@real_nw_tc) May 12, 2023
That week 11-16 stretch is insane lmao
— WITHERSPOON SEASON LFGGGG (@SeahawksSBszn) May 12, 2023
Back to back Thursday games and are bye week is 5 weeks in. Damn.
— Mr.Handsome253 (@youngkapone253) May 12, 2023
NFL kinda screwed the Seahawks here... Bye in Week 5, road game Nov. 19 preceding a home Thanksgiving game followed by a road Thursday night game. 🤢
— Jeremy Fallis (@JeremyFallis3) May 12, 2023
WOW!!!!! The Seahawks got soooo screwed by the #NFLSchedule2023 @NFL This has to be a joke! back 2 back thursdays during a 4 game stretch where 3 are road games! THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!! https://t.co/2nYiTJ1kEh
— David Mould (@TheBigDiezel) May 12, 2023
Seattle Seahawks schedule is Absolutely Brutal. Horrible bye week!!! And back to back Thursday Night Games. #Seahawks #NFLSchedule2023 pic.twitter.com/4Ksh3vH25c
— Mitch "The Godfather" Martin (@GodfatherMitch) May 12, 2023
Seahawks got back to back Thursday night games. BRUTAL https://t.co/vqUEDHQXE7
— Curt🤦🏽♂️ (@curtiss_brown21) May 12, 2023
