Here are some quick thoughts on Seattle’s 2009 schedule.
Seattle opens up with four of six games at home, including St. Louis, Chicago, Jacksonville and Arizona.

Seattle head coach Jim Mora had to like that debuting as Seattle’s head coach in 2009.

Seattle's bye week comes in week 7, which should work out better after having the bye week in the fourth week of the season last year, although last season the Seahawks needed to regroup early in the season.

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The NFL announced the regular season schedule this afternoon, including the full Seattle Seahawks schedule, which can be viewed here.

Sun, Sept. 13 - vs. St. Louis Rams 1:15 p.m.
Sun, Sept. 20 - at San Francisco 49ers, 1:05 p.m.

Sun, Sept. 27 - vs. Chicago Bears, 1:05 p.m.
Sun, Oct. 4 - at Indianapolis Colts, 10 a.m.

Sun, Oct. 11 - vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, 1:15 p.m.
Sun, Oct. 18 - vs. Arizona Cardinals, 1:05 p.m.

Bye
Sun, Nov. 1 - at Dallas Cowboys, 10 a.m.

Sun, Nov. 8 - vs. Detroit Lions, 1:05 p.m.
Sun, Nov. 15 - at Arizona Cardinals, 1:15 p.m.

Sun, Nov. 22 - at Minnesota Vikings, 10 a.m
Sun, Nov. 29 - at St. Louis Rams, 10 a.m.

Sun, Dec. 6 - vs. San Francisco 49ers, 1:15 p.m.
Sun, Dec. 13 - at Houston Texans, 10 a.m

Sun, Dec. 20 - vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1:15 p.m.
Sun, Dec. 27 - at Green Bay Packers, 10 a.m.

Sun, Jan. 3 - vs. Tennessee Titans, 1:15 p.m.

Seattle opens up at home against NFC West rival the St. Louis Rams on Sunday Sept. 13.

I’ll have some analysis of the schedule a bit later.

The National Football League announced its preseason schedule this morning, and it's no surprise that the Seattle Seahawks schedule includes all AFC West opponents.

The league typically tries to limit travel for its teams during the preseason, and the Seahawks usually do not play against NFC West divisional opponents during these exhibition contests, so that's why you see Seattle facing a steady diet of Oakland and San Diego during the preseason.

Here's Seattle's schedule.

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The Seahawks' scheduled game at Qwest Field against the New England Patriots on Dec. 7 has been moved to a 1:05 p.m. start under the rule of the league's flexible scheduling.

Replacing the Seahawks-Patriots in the 5:15 p.m. slot will be the Washington Redskins-Baltimore Ravens game. It is the first switch of a game from afternoon to prime time this season.

The Redskins-Ravens game is between two teams in the playoff race with 7-4 records. While the Patriots, also 7-4, remain in contention, Seattle (2-9) is out of it.

The flex scheduling was instituted with the new television contract in 2005 to allow more attractive games to be switched to prime time in the last two months of the season.

Veterans must report to training camp on July 24, and the first practice is on Friday, July 25.

The first few weeks of training camp will be held at the team's practice facility in Kirkland, but sometime after the second preseason game they will break camp and move to the new digs in Renton permanently.

The preseason game against Minnesota originally scheduled for Saturday Aug. 9 has been changed to Friday Aug. 8.

Sept 7 -- Seattle at Buffalo 10 am FOX
Sept 14 -- San Francisco at Seattle 1:05 pm FOX
Sept 21 -- St. Louis at Seattle 1:05 pm FOX
Sept 28 -- BYE
Oct. 5 -- Seattle at New York Giants 10 am FOX
Oct 12 - Green Bay at Seattle 1:15 pm FOX
Oct. 19 -- Seattle at Tampa Bay 5:15 pm (Sunday night game) NBC
Oct 26 -- Seattle at San Francisco 1:15 pm FOX
Nov. 2 -- Philadelphia at Seattle 1:15 pm FOX
Nov. 9 -- Seattle at Miami 10 am FOX
Nov. 16 -- Arizona at Seattle 1:05 pm FOX
Nov. 23 -- Washington at Seattle 1:15 pm FOX
Thurs. Nov. 27 Thanksgiving Day Game -- Seattle at Dallas 1:15 pm FOX
Dec. 7 -- New England at Seattle 5:15 pm (Sunday night game) NBC
Dec. 14 -- Seattle at St. Louis 10 am FOX
Dec. 21 -- New York Jets at Seattle 1:05 pm CBS
Dec. 28 -- Seattle at Arizona 1:15 pm FOX

* No Monday Night games for the Seahawks

The Seahawks open at Buffalo on Sunday, Sept. 7. It is 10 am PT. So much for the Seahawks playing the Bills in Toronto. They also play the Thanksgiving Day afternoon game at Dallas. I am working on getting the PDF of the entire sked and will post that when I get it.

NFL Network will have a two-hour show, which starts at 11 am Pacific, that will announce the regular season schedule. Here is the NFL's release on that:

NFL Network’s NFL Total Access 2008 Schedule Release Show sponsored by GMC, has been extended to two hours for the announcement of the National Football League’s regular season playing schedule.

The show will air Tuesday, April 15 at 2:00 PM ET and will encore at 6:00 PM ET and 9:30 PM ET. NFL.com will make available the entire league and team-by-team schedules and feature show clips throughout the day.

The NFL Total Access 2008 Schedule Release Show will be hosted by Fran Charles joined by analysts Jamie Dukes, Steve Mariucci, Deion Sanders, Solomon Wilcots and reporter Adam Schefter.

The schedule will be announced on a week-by-week basis, highlighting all the compelling games and culminating with a countdown of the 10 most-anticipated match-ups of 2008.

The special also features interviews by Rich Eisen live from the NFL Sponsor Summit with guests commenting on next season’s schedule.

Fan reactions will be highlighted as e-mails are answered live on the air.

I have included the entire preseason schedule as an Excel document.

The Seahawks announced their 2008 exhibition schedule today.

As was mentioned a few threads ago, it appears the Seahawks are not going to the UK next season for a game. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, the Saints and Chargers will be the teams. Here is the link.