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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — All season long, I’ve kept waiting for the Seahawks to fix things, to make that belated playoff surge, to finally show it was the struggles that were the aberration and not the brief flashes of complete play. But that tendency to believe the Seahawks weren’t as bad as they looked was more muscle memory than anything. Or maybe just habit. They had earned the benefit of the doubt by virtue of a decade of consistent winning — many times pulling improbable runs to the postseason out of seasons that had looked dire are certain junctures. It was hard to believe it could end so abruptly. Ye…