Tough home schedule awaiting Seahawks

By Bud L. Ellis

Pete Carroll is back in the National Football League after an ultra-successful run at Southern California. If he’s going to guide the Seattle Seahawks into the NFL playoffs, he’ll have to hope his team can navigate through a tough home schedule.

The Seahawks will see plenty of good teams come calling at home this season. Of Seattle’s eight home games, six are against teams that finished last season at 8-8 or better.

The NFL has released every team’s list of home games and road games for the upcoming season. Times and dates will be determined later this spring.

Seattle will play host to NFC West rival Arizona, the defending division champion, and AFC West champion San Diego. Those are the only two home games against playoff teams, but the Seahawks play three teams that went 8-8 last season (San Francisco, Carolina, Denver), as well as Atlanta (9-7 a year ago). The other two home games are against St. Louis and Kansas City.

On the road, the Seahawks’ slate is much lighter. There is a trip to Super Bowl champion New Orleans and a game at Arizona. The rest of the schedule includes games at San Francisco, at St. Louis, at Tampa Bay, at Chicago, at Denver and at Oakland.

The Seahawks’ schedule is tied with the Chargers for 29th out of 32 teams in the NFL, based on last season’s winning percentage.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 4:42 pm by bud

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