The 1982 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's seventh season with the
National Football League
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(NFL), which was interrupted by a 57-day players strike, which began on September 21, after the second game.
The Seahawks lost their first two games, and three weeks into the strike,
head coach
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Jack Patera and general manager John Thompson were fired on Wednesday, October 13, and
Mike McCormack took over as head coach for the remainder of
After the strike ended in November, the Seahawks won twice to even their record then lost a close game to the
Los Angeles Raiders
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. After beating the
Chicago Bears
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the next week, the team was upset in the
Kingdome
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by the
New England Patriots
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.
Seattle finished and missed the expanded playoffs as the second team out in the tiebreaker.
Offseason
1982 draft class
Undrafted free agents
Personnel
Staff
Final roster
* Starters in bold.
* (*) Denotes players that were selected for the
1983 Pro Bowl.
Schedule
Preseason
:Source: Seahawks Media Guides
Regular season
By finishing in fifth place in 1981, Seattle plays the two NFC fifth-place finishers, the Cardinals and Bears, and two games against the other AFC fifth-place finisher, the Patriots.
:Bold indicates division opponents.
:Source: 1982 NFL season results
1982 NFL season results
NFL.com, accessed February 14, 2015.
Standings
Playoff teams were determined by the top eight conference teams.
Game summaries
Preseason
Week P1: vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Week P2: at Minnesota Vikings
Week P3: at Los Angeles Rams
Week P4: vs. San Francisco 49ers
Regular season
Week 1: vs. Cleveland Browns
Week 2: at Houston Oilers
Week 11: at Denver Broncos
Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 13: at Los Angeles Raiders
Week 14: vs. Chicago Bears
Week 15: vs. New England Patriots
Week 16: at Cincinnati Bengals
Week 17: vs. Denver Broncos
References
External links
*
1982 Seattle Seahawks season at ESPN
* ttp://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/stats.nsf/Annual/1982-sea 1982 Seattle Seahawks Statisticsat jt-sw.com
1982 Seattle Seahawks Schedule
at jt-sw.com
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Seattle
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