I love the football season. I almost equally love the off-season. Anything is possible. Your team could draft the next great quarterback, or sign a free agent that re-shapes the product on the field. Each action has a cascading effect through the existing roster. Tarvaris Jackson and Charlie Whitehurst can...
We are days away from the official NFL off-season, but the free agent conversation is already heating up among Seahawks fans. Chief among those conversations is what the team should do at wide receiver. Pittsburgh Steelers free agent Mike Wallace and Kansas City Chiefs free agent Dwayne Bowe have some...
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. ***DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST*** **SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES** Alternatively, here are instructions to subscribe manually...
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 he needs to prepared to replace. These factors go well beyond...
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 starters. In the article from last night, starters were more...
Pete Carroll is sitting at home. Jim Harbaugh is preparing for the Super Bowl. Ask the average fan which one has done a better job in the NFL, and most would point to Harbaugh’s record and roster as evidence that he is the more valuable organizational leader. Put even a...
John Schneider could not have been any more clear during interviews with both 710 ESPN and 950 KJR that he intends to trade Matt Flynn. He even used the same phrase, “I’d be lying if I told you were weren’t going to listen to offers for Matt.” The question becomes...
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 statistical improvement that had them, once again, among the most improved teams in...
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 Flynn who will never play? I will explain why that logic is flawed in...
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 impact the team next year. Much of that angst is misplaced. Gus Bradley and Darrell...
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 what genius General Manager John Schneider will do. All those things will happen on...
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 the most useless emotional state to be in....







