The Greatest In-Season NFL Turnaround For All 32 Teams
By Erik Lambert
Seattle Seahawks: 1983
The best turnarounds are always the first ones, am I right? The Seahawks were considered a second class franchise in their early days. They’d failed to make the playoffs in their first seven seasons and things didn’t look much different through most of 1983. By the end of November, they were sitting at 6-6 with little hope of reaching the promised land.
It got worse in their next game when the Kansas City Chiefs opened up a 21-7 lead on them. However, the team fought back and ended up in one of the greatest regular season shootouts in NFL history, going to overtime tied 48-48. Seattle pulled it out with a field goal and would win three of their last four to make the playoffs for the first time.
The fun didn’t stop there. The Seahawks crushed division rival Denver 31-7 in the wild card round and then upset the favored Miami Dolphins 27-20 the next week to reach the AFC championship game. Sadly five turnovers in the game doomed them against the eventual champion Raiders, but it was an incredible turnaround.