Standing on a stage at Levi’s Stadium, holding the Lombardi Trophy, Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald was asked about the performance of his team and his defense in Seattle’s super Bowl LX victory over the Patriots.
“That’s going to go down in the history books,” Macdonald said after leading the Seahawks to their second Super Bowl title, making him the third youngest head coach to reach the pinnacle of his sport.
Less than a month later, Macdonald joined the Rich Eisen show from the NFL scouting combine, and Eisen asked if Macdonald was yet able to fully appreciate what his team had accomplished.
First, Macdonald acknowledged that he probably hasn’t yet fully processed his team’s Super-Bowl winning season, but then, after making it clear that he was talking about his players’ accomplishment and not his own, Macdonald added, “The 2025-2026 Seattle Seahawks I think deserve to be recognized as one of the all-time great teams, great performances. Find me a stat and compare it to everybody else—that’s important in the history books, and our guys deserve that recognition.”
All-time great teams are often defined, at least in part, by what the core of that team accomplished over multiple seasons, or by how many players go on to Hall of Fame-caliber careers, so it can be hard to fully appreciate the greatness of a team immediately after a title is secured, but to Macdonald’s point, a case can be made for the 2025 Seahawks to go down among the elite championship-winning teams in the league’s history.
Next week brings the start of the new league year, and all 32 NFL teams are focused on building for the 2026 season and beyond, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still reflect on the Super Bowl-winning season that was and appreciate just how special that Seahawks squad was over the course of 20 games, culminating in a 29-13 win over the Patriots.
Without the benefit of a time machine, there’s no way to definitively rank champions from different eras or even different seasons, so unless anyone out there has DeLorean going 88 miles per hour with a flux capacitor and room for an entire NFL team, not to mention 1.21 gigawatts of electricity, this is all a fun, hypothetical debate with no right or wrong answers. But if there’s ever time for fun hypotheticals, it’s during the offseason before free agency and the draft start demanding everyone’s attention. So with that in mind, here are some reasons why the 2025 Seahawks, as Macdonald put it, “deserve to be recognized as one of the all-time great teams.”