NFL team season
The 1984 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's ninth season with the National Football League (NFL). The season opener was moved from Sunday to Monday afternoon on Labor Day to avoid a conflict with a Seattle Mariners baseball game.
The 1984 Seahawks were a well-balanced team on offense and defense. The 1984 Seahawks season was the Seahawks' best season as a team in the AFC West. They scored 418 points (26.1 per game), and gave up only 282 points (17.6 per game), both ranked 5th in the NFL. Their point differential of +136 points was third in the NFL; the Seahawks' giveaway/takeaway ratio was +24, best in the league. The team's 63 defensive takeaways is the most in NFL history for a 16-game schedule, and the most since the merger.[1]
The team's offense boasted a 3,000-yard passer in quarterback Dave Krieg (3,671 yards), and a 1,000-yard wide receiver in Steve Largent (74 receptions for 1,164 yards). The passing attack more than made up for the loss of star running back Curt Warner, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the opener.
The Seahawks's defensive line generated an outstanding pass rush, with defensive ends Jeff Bryant and Jacob Green registering 14.5 and 13 sacks, respectively. Safety Kenny Easley led the team and league with 10 interceptions.[2] Easley, Green, and NT Joe Nash made the All-Pro team.
In a wild week-10 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, the Seahawks intercepted Kansas City's quarterbacks six times, and returned four of them for touchdowns. All the touchdown returns were for over 50 yards.[3] In the game, the Seahawks set NFL records for most yards returning interceptions (325), and most interceptions-for-touchdowns in a game (4).
Seattle would make the playoffs for the second straight season. They defeated the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Raiders 13–7 in the wild card round avenging their 1983 loss. However, they were not able to advance past the Miami Dolphins, as they lost in Miami 31–10 to a powerful Dolphins squad led by record setting second year quarterback Dan Marino, who they had defeated in the playoffs the previous season. After this season, the Seahawks wouldn't win another playoff game until their Super Bowl-appearing 2005 season.
1984 NFL Draft
Personnel
Staff
Final roster
[4]
- Starters in bold.
- (*) Denotes players that were selected for the 1985 Pro Bowl.
Schedule
Preseason
- Source: Seahawks Media Guides[5][6]
Regular season
Divisional matchups have the AFC West playing the NFC Central.
- Bold indicates division opponents.
- Source: 1984 NFL season results [7]
Postseason
Standings
Game summaries
Preseason
Week P1: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week P2: vs. Buffalo Bills
Preseason Week Two: Seattle Seahawks vs. Buffalo Bills – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
- Date:
- Game time: 7:33 pm local
- Game weather: indoors
- Game attendance: 53,360
- Referee: Fred Silva
- Gamebook
Week P3: at Detroit Lions
Week P4: vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Preseason Week Four: Seattle Seahawks vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
- Date:
- Game time: 7:36 pm local
- Game weather: indoors
- Game attendance: 53,772
- Referee: Red Cashion
- Gamebook
Week P5: at San Francisco 49ers
Preseason Week Five: Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers – Game summary
at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
- Date:
- Game time: 6:07 pm local
- Game weather: clear, 68 °F (20 °C), wind N 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h)
- Game attendance: 49,219
- Referee: Jerry Seeman
- TV: KING
- Gamebook
Regular season
Week 1: vs. Cleveland Browns
Week One: Seattle Seahawks vs. Cleveland Browns – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
Week 2: vs. San Diego Chargers
Week Two: Seattle Seahawks vs. San Diego Chargers – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
Week 3: at New England Patriots
The Seahawks saw the Patriots erase a 23–0 deficit with 38 unanswered points led by new quarterback Tony Eason, who took over halfway through the game for Steve Grogan.
Week 4: vs. Chicago Bears
Week Four: Seattle Seahawks vs. Chicago Bears – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
Week 5: at Minnesota Vikings
Week 6: at Los Angeles Raiders
Week Six: Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Raiders – Game summary
at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles
- Date: October 7
- Game time: 1:00 pm local
- Game weather: hazy, 80 °F (27 °C), 69% humidity, wind SW 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)
- Game attendance: 77,904
- Referee: Ben Dreith
- TV announcers (NBC): Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen
- Gamebook
Week 7: vs. Buffalo Bills
Week Seven: Seattle Seahawks vs. Buffalo Bills – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
- Date: October 14
- Game time: 1:03 pm local
- Game weather: indoors
- Game attendance: 59,034
- Referee: Fred Wyant
- TV: KING-TV (game aired only in the Seattle TV market, as NBC was airing Game 5 of the 1984 World Series)
- Gamebook
Week 8: at Green Bay Packers
Week 9: at San Diego Chargers
Week 10: vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Week Ten: Seattle Seahawks vs. Kansas City Chiefs – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
Week 11: vs. Los Angeles Raiders
Week Eleven: Seattle Seahawks vs. Los Angeles Raiders – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
- Date: November 12
- Game time: 6:05 pm local
- Game weather: indoors
- Game attendance: 64,001
- Referee: Jim Tunney
- TV announcers (ABC): Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and O. J. Simpson
- Gamebook
Week 12: at Cincinnati Bengals
Week Twelve: Seattle Seahawks at Cincinnati Bengals – Game summary
at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Date: November 18
- Game time: 1:00 pm local
- Game weather: rain/snow 34 °F (1 °C), 71% humidity, wind NE 8 miles per hour (13 km/h)
- Game attendance: 50,280
- Referee: Gordon McCarter
- TV announcers (NBC): Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy
- Gamebook
Week 13: at Denver Broncos
Week 14: vs. Detroit Lions
Week Fourteen: Seattle Seahawks vs. Detroit Lions – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
Week 15: at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 16: vs. Denver Broncos
Week Sixteen: Seattle Seahawks vs. Denver Broncos – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
Postseason
Seattle entered the postseason as the #4 seed in the AFC.
AFC Wild Card Playoff: vs #5 Los Angeles Raiders
AFC Wild Card Playoff: #5 Los Angeles Raiders at #4 Seattle Seahawks – Game summary
at Kingdome, Seattle
AFC Divisional Playoff: at #1 Miami Dolphins
AFC Divisional Playoff: #4 Seattle Seahawks at #1 Miami Dolphins – Game summary
at Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida
- Date: December 29
- Game time: 1:00 pm local
- Game weather: clear, 77 °F (25 °C), 67% humidity, wind E 16 miles per hour (26 km/h)
- Game attendance: 73,469
- Referee: Pat Haggerty
- TV announcers (NBC): Marv Albert and John Brodie
- Gamebook
References
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com: In a single season, from 1940 to 2011, in the regular season, sorted by descending Takeaways.
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com: 1984 Seattle Seahawks
- ^ Dave Brown, 90-yard return for TD; Keith Simpson, 76-yard return for TD; Dave Brown, 56-yard return for TD; Kenny Easley, 58-yard return for TD: Pro-Football-Reference.com: Kansas City Chiefs 0 at Seattle Seahawks 45, Sunday, November 4, 1984
- ^ "Home". pro-football-reference.com.
- ^ 1984 Seahawks Media Guide, accessed February 14, 2015.
- ^ 1985 Seahawks Media Guide, accessed February 14, 2015.
- ^ 1984 NFL season results, NFL.com, accessed February 14, 2015.
External links
- Seahawks draft history at NFL.com
- 1984 NFL season results at NFL.com
