Seahawks Fans Becoming Patriot Fans?

We all know the Patriot fans that go crazy anytime anyone has anything negative to say about the New England Patriots. Saying that Miami might win the division or anything short of proclaiming the Patriots the inevitable champions has the Pats fans up in arms and clamoring about being disrespected. It is getting dangerously close to the point where you could replace "New England" with "Seattle" and "Patriots" with "Seahawks" in the above sentences. Every writer, analyst, and expert is picking the Seahawks to win the division. They say it might be closer than last year, and they are probably right. Does anyone really think the most likely scenario is the Seahawks winning the division by 7 games again? I have not heard anything short of the Seahawks being at least one of the top contenders in the NFC.

Seahawks fans need to get used to the idea that people think we are good. Everyone does not have to pick the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl or even the NFC. There is a good chance we will not do either. Do I want us to? Yes. Is the team good enough to? Yes. But so are a handful of other teams and someone can pick another team without it being disrespectful and negative.

We are actually getting to be worse than the Patriot fans. The Seahawks did not win a playoff game for 20 years before last year and earned the right to be looked at as the team that perennially disappoints. Things are changing now that they finally got it done, but if they do not perform this year, people will think last year was a fluke. The Seahawks need to consistently win in the playoffs if they want to stop being overlooked - if we only win playoff games every 20 years, then we will always be the forgotten team. The Patriots at least earned the right to complain when someone did not pick them to win it all by winning 3 Super Bowls in 4 years.

Would it be stupid and disrespectful for someone to pick the Seahawks to miss the playoffs? Yes, but no one is doing that. Let's not become like the annoying Patriot fans, at least not until we win a couple of Super Bowls or at least win playoff games at a better rate than once every 20 years.