PODCAST: Season Wrap-Up With Softy
Softy and I took a moment to wrap-up the 2012 Seahawks season and tried putting it in context. We also talked Matt Flynn, and whether the best team in football is always the one that wins it all.
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Ranking The Seahawks Roster #1-57
Managing an NFL roster is no easy task. Finding talent is paramount, but is only the first step. A savvy general manager must look ahead and weigh a variety of factors to determine who to build around and who...
Follow-Up: Impact of Harbaugh vs. Carroll on Starters
I ran out of time to add this view into the impact that Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll have had on their respective talent levels. It helps to see the actual names, and the actual areas of impact among the star...
Comparing Harbaugh & Carroll: Franchise Builders
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Potential Players Matt Flynn Could Fetch In Trade
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Most Improved Teams 2012
Progress can be judged in a variety of ways. A team's record can improve. They can make the playoffs. They can go farther in the playoffs. Seattle did all of those things in 2012, and also demonstrated statis...
Early Thoughts On Trading Matt Flynn, Drafting Matt Barkley
Everyone has Seahawks backup quarterback Matt Flynn on the first bus out of town this off-season. The logic goes that Russell Wilson is a quarterback deity, so what's the point of spending "all this money," on...
Thoughts On Bradley, Bevell, & The Ripple Effect
Both Seattle coordinators are looking more and more likely to land somewhere other than Seattle next season. There seems to be a fair amount of hand-wringing going on among Seahawks fans on how that will impac...
Seahawks Off-Season Priorities & Early Free Agent Targets
The proper order of events following the end of the season is to review what happened, dive into each position group, scout for the draft, look at free agents and then make some well-informed projections about...
The Night After: Seahawks Bow Out, Lose 30-28 To Falcons
My son sat silently next to me on the drive back from an impromptu trip to Five Guys where we attempted to drown our sorrows in oil and grease. "Don't ever let depression get a hold of you," I told him. "It's ...