Though he has backed off it the last couple seasons, Carroll would emphasize preseason wins as a way of turning a losing culture into a winning one. The Seahawks took a scorched earth approach to August winning eight in a row at one point, many of them by blowouts.
Seattle outscored their opponents 110-36 in the 2013 preseason and 102-44 in 2012. The games may be meaningless, but what we were seeing from them then was no mirage.
OK. Fuck the shitchickens.