One significant change in the Seattle Seahawks’ training camps under Mike Macdonald has been the re-introduction of joint practices, which the team hadn’t done since the early 1990s. In 2024, the Seahawks held two scrimmages with the Tennessee Titans before their preseason game in Nashville, and last year they had a single joint practice with the Green Bay Packers before their exhibition at Lambeau Field. What’s in store for 2026? Maybe, just maybe, the joint practice(s) will be in Renton.
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Sports 710 host Brock Huard heard through the grapevine that there is a push to have the Seahawks welcome the Dallas Cowboys to VMAC before their Aug. 15 preseason game.
“From what I understand and the conversations I’m having, they are really, really attempting to make that work,” Huard said. “And that would be so awesome for the fans, the experience. I’ve gotten to see that in the Denver market. The Broncos have been able to do (joint practices) and get opponents to come in. It’s really cool.
“And in many ways, the intensity of those couple practices are better than the preseason game, because they’re getting after it, because it’s ones on ones. That red zone and that high red zone last year in (Green Bay), that was the first coming-out party of … JSN and Sam Darnold. That was kind of the first little appetizer and vision of what could be and what was to come.
The Seahawks last hosted a scrimmage in 1991 against the Atlanta Falcons, and even that was in Portland, Oregon. You have to go back to 1988 at the Tacoma Dome for the last time Seattle had a joint practice/scrimmage in its own state.
It’s certainly possible for the Cowboys to agree to a joint practice. Their training camp base is Oxnard, California, where they have practiced against the Los Angeles Rams in each of the past two seasons. I think the big thing of interest to Seahawks fans is whether or not any joint practice at VMAC would be open to the public, because that might be worth attending even more than the actual preseason game.
