2 Winners And 5 Losers From Commanders Disaster Against The Seahawks

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Nov 17, 2025, 3:37 PM

2 winners and 5 losers from commanders disaster against the seahawks

This was the last chance saloon for the Washington Commanders if they wanted to keep their slim hopes of reaching the playoffs alive. Not for the first time this season, their Week 9 beatdown by the Seattle Seahawks was an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. More injuries — one to Washington's franchise quarterback Jayden Daniels — will generate the headlines. But the simple fact of the matter is that the Commanders were not ready to play. They were sluggish, mistake-ridden, and unable to cope with the Seahawks' firepower on both sides of the football. That's a dangerous mix, and the Commanders are 3-6 for a reason.

This is not the same team that took the NFL by storm in 2024. Everything is different, and it now looks like last season's meteoric rise was an anomaly rather than the start of a profitable new era. General manager Adam Peters has some big decisions to make over the next couple of days before the 2025 trade deadline. After this latest capitulation, don't be surprised if the Commanders look to sell off deadwood in their quest to put themselves in a better position when the offseason arrives. That's for the not-too-distant future. For now, here are two winners and five losers from the Commanders' embarrassing blowout to the Seahawks.

Losers? The only losers were the Commanders and anyone who saw it fit to pick the Commanders to win! If you wanted the Seattle Seahawks to make a big statement on Sunday night, you got it and then some. The Seattle Seahawks smashing up the New Orleans Saints in Week 3 was fun but the Saints are an atrocious team. I know the Washington Commanders are not a very good team, but to go on the road and pummel them when their backs are ostensibly up against the wall in terms of playoff hopes? This was a massive victory out of the bye, and there’s every reason to believe Seattle is a playoff contender.

Let’s get to Winners and Losers after a 38-14 victory that was not nearly as close as the final score indicated. His first half was true perfection. No, literally. He was 16/16 for 282 yards and 4 touchdowns. Sam was only 5/8 for 48 yards and an interception after halftime, which is evidence that the decision by Mike Macdonald to bench him for Drew Lock was wholly justified. If you wanted the Seattle Seahawks to make a big statement on Sunday night, you got it and then some.

The Seattle Seahawks smashing up the New Orleans Saints in Week 3 was fun but the Saints are an atrocious team. I know the Washington Commanders are not a very good team, but to go on the road and pummel them when their backs are ostensibly up against the wall in terms of playoff hopes? This was a massive victory out of the bye, and there’s every reason to believe Seattle is a playoff contender. Let’s get to Winners and Losers after a 38-14 victory that was not nearly as close as the final score indicated. His first half was true perfection. No, literally.

He was 16/16 for 282 yards and 4 touchdowns. Sam was only 5/8 for 48 yards and an interception after halftime, which is evidence that the decision by Mike Macdonald to bench him for Drew Lock was wholly justified. In all seriousness, Darnold was in a zone all night and playing like an elite quarterback. Not a good quarterback. Not a great quarterback. An elite quarterback.

Even if he isn’t an elite quarterback every week, the Seahawks can be a Super Bowl caliber team with how he’s performing right now. The Seattle Seahawks are 6-3 heading into a winnable game in Week 11 against the Los Angeles Rams. Of course, the Rams stomped the Seahawks in Week 1. So, you know, anything can happen. At least Week 10 was a victory for Seattle. The team dominated the Washington Commanders statistically for much of the game but could never separate much where it mattered most: The scoreboard.

But after Week 9's meltdown against the Baltimore Ravens, Seattle will take a win any way it can get it. On the list of winners and losers from Week 10 I don't have kicker Jason Myers. But maybe I should as Myers made all five of his field goals, including the game-winning kick. Since Week 3, Myers has made 17 of his 18 field goal tries. But here are some other winners and losers from Seattle's 29-26 victory over the Commanders. Lots of fans and websites (including ours) have recently had issues with DK Metcalf's attitude toward picking up 15-yard penalties over the past several years.

Metcalf has more penalties for unnecessary roughness, taunting, and unsportsmanlike conduct than any player in the NFL since 2020. That's the bad of DK Metcalf. But the good of Metcalf can far outweigh the bad and he proved that late in Week 10. In the first half, quarterback Geno Smith seemed to want to force the ball to Metcalf. This has been a common occurrence over the last few weeks. I see the point of that, of course, as Metcalf needs the ball in his hands to do any damage.

Smith throwing the ball, especially on third downs that might be picked up by targeting a different receiver, to a not-open Metcalf isn't Metcalf's fault; It's Smith's.

2 Winners And 5 Losers From Commanders Disaster Against The Seahawks

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