Seahawks Torn After Missing Playoffs: 'A Total Crusher!'

The Seattle Seahawks failed to book their spot in the playoffs with head coach Pete Carroll calling the failed season a total crusher.

The Seattle Seahawks will be watching the playoffs from their couches this season after a bittersweet ending to their year.

After being at 6-3 midway through the season, and seemingly having a playoff spot within their grasp, Seattle hit the skids, lost four consecutive games, and with two remaining, needed to win both in order to secure a playoff spot.

But a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers meant Seattle didn't control its destiny, and even after a 21-20 win over the Arizona Cardinals, the Seahawks were dumped out of calculations thanks to Green Bay's win over Chicago.

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“It’s a total crusher because there’s so many games in the season that we take with us," head coach Pete Carroll said on missing the playoffs. "These games don’t go away whether it’s the Rams, whether it’s Dallas, whether it’s Pittsburgh, or it’s the Rams again. There’s so many games like this that they just tear at you. That’s what you have to live with because we’ve done the things we needed to do to win those games and other games that we just didn’t get that."

To be in such a commanding position earlier in the season, the lack of consistency in Seattle's game down the stretch is what will eat at the coaching staff and players this offseason.

Touted as a potential Super Bowl dark horse in the offseason, the Seahawks missed the postseason entirely.

With attacking weapons in DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and running backs Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet, the Seahawks had the weapons, and defensively there was a reason for hope with Devon Witherspoon (drafted), Bobby Wagner, and Dre'Mont Jones coming into Clint Hurtt's defense that the Seahawks could amount to something this season.

But while Seattle won three of its last four games, the damage had already been done and left them no margin for error in the final two weeks.

"We needed one more [win]," Carroll. "We should have had three more to have the season that we could have had. We were capable of doing that. I’m really disappointed about that, Really disappointed because I think we should have been better. It’s unfortunate, just needed to get it done.”

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It will be a tough couple of weeks as the Seahawks come to terms with their failed season that once promised so much. With a feeling of "what if" about Seattle's season, how they reload and go again next season will make for interesting viewing.

For now, it is a wasted season when the Seahawks had several chances to punch their playoff ticket, but missed every time.