MackStrongIsMyHero wrote:Last season and this season saw a departure from the rut they fell into and they started the proper rebuild. I’m guessing you’re alluding to the 2nd round pick they gave up for Williams this year. I saw that as move to be made when they believed they were competitors this year based on their progress at that time. The 2nd rounder was the price to have NYG eat that $10 million. They are still in a position to compete this year; I’d rather them get in the playoffs and see what happens. That’s not to be confused with being content with mediocrity. You build a winning culture with a young roster by competing.
To the topic, yeah, wish they weren’t so banged up, but every team tends to be nicked up at this point in the season. Not sweating Jamal or Eskeridge being out for the reasons Riverdog mentioned. Hoping they get more healthy by next Sunday and just maybe the playoffs.
I see it as an example of more roster mismanagement and lack of confidence in their ability to draft. He's a 29, going on 30, year old player you paid a 2nd round pick for sending a message to his agent that you have given him all the leverage in negotiations because if you don't re-sign him, you gave up a 2nd round pick for nothing.
We been making the playoffs for 9 years from the last Super Bowl trip. It isn't enough anymore. You act like this team is young, but we got many of our top players on 2nd plus contracts or about to hit 2nd contracts. We have older guys like Jamal Adams and Bobby on the last legs of their career.
This is not the young and up and coming Legion of Boom days. This is a very uneven roster with key positions not solidified and aging fast. You just gave up a 2nd round pick for a guy about to be on the wrong side of 30 when you have serious, serious problems at LB and safety as well as the interior of your O-line.
I don't see what you see on this roster. This doesn't feel like a young and up and coming team. It feels like a team with a head coach and GM that have reached the end of their run and are just hanging on hoping for one last dream run by just punching their ticket as one of the 14 teams that make it to the playoffs. They don't feel like the younger Pete and John that scoured every rock for players, traded a 7th round pick for Clem and a 4th round pick for Marshawn, and signed Avril and Bennett to round out a quality D line anchored by Mebane and drafted one of the best safety tandems in NFL history with a 1st and 5th round pick and one of the best CBs to ever wear a Seahawk uniform with a 5th round pick. Then drafted our best LB in history with a 2nd round pick. And our best QB with a 3rd round pick. It don't feel like that at all.
This is the GM and coach that traded 2 first round picks for Jamal Adams. Signed two safeties that are underperforming badly for 36 million a year. Let the LB corps drop off so far they are signing Bobby in his twilight to a contract. They're selling Geno Smith as the answer to a competitive QB position and we have fans wishing Lock, who played average football, as some kind of viable, competitive QB.
Let's just say the expectations for an up and coming young team in Seattle have changed dramatically. I'm done with that vision as it isn't what is happening. All I see right now is a GM and Head coach desperately trying for one last run making bad trades and bad roster moves, bad drafting for years, and they finally got lucky that their QB wanted out at the right time which led to a great deal that managed to net us a handful of possible great players I'd much rather see another coach develop and push to the next level because Pete has somehow lost even the ability to develop a great defense for some reason. He's never been great at offense, but when your great defensive coach that built one of the all time great defensesin NFL history that actually earned their nickname can no longer develop and coordinate a quality defense in Seattle, not sure what you do with that.