The 1982 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's seventh season with the National Football League (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 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. After beating the Chicago Bears the next week, the team was upset in the Kingdome by the New England Patriots. Seattle finished and missed the expanded playoffs as the second team out in the tiebreaker.
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.
Playoff teams were determined by the top eight conference teams.