While perusing yesterday’s USA Today, I came across this item on the front page of the Sports section:

Seattle-Tampa draws lowest NFL rating

NBC’s Seattle Seahawks-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game ended up with the lowest national rating ever — 6.3% of U.S. households — for a prime-time broadcast network NFL game

So what milesone is next for our Seahawks?

…that you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit. The Seahawks have gorged themselves on their beyond mediocre division for the last four years, but now even beating the 49ers at home (after a humiliating loss to open the season on the road) turned out to be a pipe dream. Coaching, talent, teamwork, and luck win in the NFL and I’m not sure where the Seahawks are distinguishing themselves in any or all of these categories when it matters.

Seahawks fans, it’s time to stop going nuts over opponent false start penalties; Mike Holmgren’s swan song looks headed for a 4-12 season. On the plus side, that might be enough (when you factor in the tie breaker) to win the division.