by chris98251 » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:25 am
This off season should be a bloodletting. Pete is safe, he has a bulk of injuries and managed the team to still be respectable on defense, as well all know on offense there is no damn excuse, other then Carson we are pretty healthy overall, Cable and Bevell can't use the excuse of unfamiliarity with the O line either, they went and got Joekel and Brown who know the system yet the unit still played abysmally. Sherman Smith was let go last year as a token shake up and the RB's were worse for it this year by how they performed. The only glimmer was that Bevell figured out that Graham is 6'7 tall and that you can throw to him in isolation in the End Zone.
This is what were working with in next years draft.
First round (1): The Seahawks have their original pick.
Second round (0): Traded to the New York Jets (DT Sheldon Richardson).
Third round (0): Traded to the Texans (LT Duane Brown).
Fourth round (1): Original pick.
Fifth round (3): Seattle traded a fifth to the Philadelphia Eagles (OT Matt Tobin) and acquired fifths in trades with the Oakland Raiders (RB Marshawn Lynch), New England Patriots (DE Cassius Marsh) and the Texans (Brown).
Sixth round (0): Traded to the Raiders (Lynch).
Seventh round (2): Seattle traded sevenths to Patriots (CB Justin Coleman) and Kansas City Chiefs (OT Isaiah Battle) and acquired sevenths from the Patriots (Marsh), Minnesota Vikings (CB Tramaine Brock) and Eagles (Tobin).
Not a lot to work with to rebuild, add to that.
Jimmy Graham - Is he worth probably close to 10 Million a year ?
Luke Joeckel - Sure not worth the 8 million we paid him
Eddie Lacy - Definition of a bust signing
Sheldon Richardson - Love to keep him, Young, Hungry, a leader, does everything you ask of a guy to push the pocket and stop the run. He wasn't brought here to make sacks, but make everyone else look better, which he does.
Bradley McDougald - With Kam all but done and with a injury that could be career ending we need to re sign him.
Luke Willson - If Graham leaves we will need him, he will come cheap.
Michael Wilhoite - Should be a cheap resign.
Deshawn Shead - On the fence here, could be brought back cheap most likely was only 1.2 million this year.
Paul Richardson - May be a star in the making, can we afford probably 2.5 million?
Blair Walsh - I'll pay the bus fair for him to leave town.
Marcus Smith - Need to resign this kid, made strides and Avril may not be back. He is hungry and now will be able to be signed a bit longer on a structured deal and reasonable.
Oday Aboushi - He is a slow guy, smart but maybe it's the damn system, young and I think depth at least.
Byron Maxwell - Defiantly a resign, Sherman may not be back at the beginning of next year and I would take his production over Lanes, he has seen what the business end of football is about, maybe a reasonable contract where he is wanted is in the cards?
Terence Garvin - Camp resign
Austin Davis - I liked what he showed, he can play and doesn't look like a Deer in the Headlights, I think resign and not have a question there, we can win with him I think if we can get a running game.
Matt Tobin - This guy was suppose to be a lock to help our line and has set on the bench, I would take him over Ifedi, not sure why he didn't get that spot once we signed Brown.
Dewey McDonald - Another camp body.
So really it comes down to Graham and Joekel as big hits, needing to sign Maxwell and McDougal and Sheldon Richardson, a nice throw in would be able to sign Paul but we do have Lockett who is a lot like him less the ability to climb for the high catch. He is probably the most easy to replace based on our roster and players.
Now we have to look at those players not UFA and or RFA's, as much as we hate saying goodbye to guys we have a lot of money in the defense with Bennett, Sherman, Thomas, Lane, Wagner, Wright, Chancellor, Avril. Were going to have to make room and we are going to have to reload, our key guys have now grown into to wear and tear players. Something is going to have to give, we looked to have sold out to win this year and well, it didn't work.
That brings me back to the topic, if we don't have a draft that we can get a lot of higher round guys in instead of 5th and 7th rounder's mostly we have to see if we can trade for picks, that brings me to the Veterans that could help someone push over the top that are rising now. If we don't or can't do that then Pete has to look at the scheme and Coaches who run it, something will have to be changed. Going with the same approach and further alienating the defense is going to blow up next year about the offense, and we will be worse with limited resources.
Pete is going to have to swallow his pride and allegiance, Paul is a patient owner, but when he has had his fill he makes changes, has did it with the Blazers and did it here with Ruskell and Mora.
This will be the off season we see if the President of Football Operations in Pete has earned that title and makes the hard choices. If he can't then I would say next season could be his last here.