The 1992 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's 17th season with the

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(NFL). This was the first of three seasons in

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for

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, but the Seahawks' winning percentage (.125) remains the worst in franchise history. The Seahawks' 140 points (8.8 points per game) scored in the regular season is the lowest total for any team playing a 16-game (minimum) season. Long-time

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had left Seattle for the rival

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in the offseason, leaving Seattle with

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, and Dan McGwire (brother of

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star

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) as their three quarterbacks. ''

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'' called Seattle's 1992 offense "the worst offense in (their ranking system's) history." Seattle's 1,778

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are the fewest in a season by any team during the 1990s. The teams's 3,374

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are the lowest by a team in a 16-game (minimum) season in NFL history; they had 31 fewer

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than the previous record-holders, the

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, who had 3,405 all-purpose yards just four seasons prior. Seattle was so inept that from the first game of the season until their Week 13 overtime win over

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, they collectively had fewer points scored than punts attempted; for the entire season, the team finished with only slightly more points than punts. The team failed to score more than 17 points in a single game. Despite their historically inept offense, ''Football Outsiders'' also ranked Seattle as having the third-best defense in

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, making them the most imbalanced team they had ever measured. The Seahawks' star

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was named the 1992

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. Seattle gave up the fourth-fewest passing yards (2,661), and tied for fewest passing

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allowed (11) of any team in 1992. Before their ''

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'' victory over the

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in the Kingdome in late November, the Seahawks honored

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Pete Gross, inducting him as the fourth member of the

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, its first non-player. After his long bout with

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, Gross died two days later at age 55. That game was also the last ''MNF'' game played in the Kingdome and the last in Seattle until

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Offseason

NFL draft

Undrafted free agents

Personnel

Staff

Final roster

* Starters in bold. * (*) Denotes players that were selected for the

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Schedule

Preseason

:Source: Seahawks Media Guides1993 Seahawks Media Guide
accessed February 14, 2015.

Regular season

Divisional matchups have the AFC West playing the NFC East.

Standings

Game summaries

Preseason

Week P1: vs. Los Angeles Rams

Week P2: at Indianapolis Colts

Week P3: vs. Phoenix Cardinals

Week P4: at San Francisco 49ers

Regular season

Week 1: vs. Cincinnati Bengals

Week 2: at Kansas City Chiefs

Week 3: at New England Patriots

Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins

Week 5: at San Diego Chargers

Week 6: at Dallas Cowboys

Week 7: vs. Los Angeles Raiders

Week 8: at New York Giants

Week 10: vs. Washington Redskins

Week 11: at Los Angeles Raiders

Week 12: vs. Kansas City Chiefs

Week 13: vs. Denver Broncos

Week 14: at Pittsburgh Steelers

Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eagles

Week 16: at Denver Broncos

Week 17: vs. San Diego Chargers

Notes

References

External links

*
1992 Seattle Seahawks season at ESPN

at Pro Football Reference (Profootballreference.com)
1992 Seattle Seahawks Statistics
at jt-sw.com
1992 Seattle Seahawks Schedule
at jt-sw.com {{DEFAULTSORT:1992 Seattle Seahawks Season

Seattle Seahawks seasons