Mike Macdonald isn’t spending much energy on the shiny moves being made around the NFC West.
As the Seattle Seahawks get ready to defend their 2025 Super Bowl title with the 2026 NFL season approaching, the division has been busy reshaping itself. Seattle has had notable turnover of its own, with Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker III leaving for the Kansas City Chiefs in free agency. But the biggest noise has come from elsewhere, especially the Los Angeles Rams, who added Myles Garrett, Trent McDuffie, and others this summer.
Macdonald’s response was blunt.
“Yeah, I don’t care,” Macdonald said. “Don’t care.
If you start worrying about what everybody else is doing, it’s just mentally taxing. It’s so much easier if you don’t.
Let’s just worry about the Seahawks and being the best version of ourselves and getting better every day,” he said, per Vic Tafur of The Athletic.
That attitude fits a division that’s already loaded and, on paper, only got tougher. Before this offseason, the NFC West was already considered by some to be the best division in football, with three teams reaching at least the second round of the playoffs last year. Now the Rams and San Francisco 49ers have added even more firepower.
“It’s an interesting dynamic because of the way that we’ve gone back and forth, and it all evolved pretty quickly over two years,” Macdonald said. “There is a lot of carryover and some great play callers.”
Seattle will need to keep its focus locked in if it wants to become the first Seahawks team to repeat as Super Bowl champions. The season opens September 9 at home against the New England Patriots in a Super Bowl rematch.
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