According to Seattle media, last Sunday's loss to the Bengals was of epic proportions.

The Seattle Times says the blown 17-point fourth quarter in Cincinnati ties the all-time franchise record.  In 1979, Seattle had a 34-17 lead in t he 4th of an AFC West game vs. Denver before losing 37-34.

But it is nowhere anywhere close to the biggest blown lead of all-time in NFL History, the epic meltdown of the Houston Oilers, who led Buffalo 34-3 at the half in an AFC playoff game in 1993, before the Bills came roaring back to win.

However, from what the Times can discern from player comments, they're more concerned about increasing  their offensive production so this won't happen again. While the 'Hawks defense has carried the team, the offense has not.

Seattle is tied for the most sacks given up so far this season, 18, and the offensive line shows little sign of jelling.   Doug Baldwin had this to say about the collapse:

“It’s football, It’s going to happen at times. But it’s extremely frustrating knowing how talented we are, knowing how good we are, and knowing how poised we can be in those moments, and (then) not to finish, not to pull it out, and not to be successful in the moment that we train so hard to be successful in. I don’t want to take anything away from the Cincinnati Bengals — they played extremely well in the fourth quarter. But as far as we go, we didn’t play very good in the fourth quarter.”

However, it's not close to the teams all-time biggest blown lead. That occurred in the same game mentioned earlier.  Seattle not only blew a 17-point fourth quarter lead vs. Denver in 1979, but had led that game by 24 points overall before losing.

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