![]() ![]() Maybe the two are trying to maintain an optimistic face publicly-unrelenting optimism is Carroll’s brand, after all-but all of the evidence suggests that they truly believe this team can compete for a playoff spot with Smith and/or Lock manning the most important spot on the roster. ![]() John Schneider adds, "We're not used to losing."- Corbin K. When asked if they feel they need to reassure fans after how this offseason has gone, Pete Carroll immediately responds, "Yeah, we've got to win!" But nope! Both are still there, and neither Carroll nor Schneider is making any effort to lower expectations. In a true rebuild, at least one of those guys-probably Lockett, based on age and salary-would have been traded for draft capital to help accelerate the roster churn. That fact that Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf both remain on the roster is another sign the Seahawks probably aren’t folding their hand just yet. Wright after he left the Pacific Northwest a year ago. Plus, Carroll says the team is mulling over a reunion with linebacker K.J. But they followed that up by re-signing veteran safety Quandre Diggs to a long-term extension, retaining defensive tackle Al Woods, bringing back Quinton Jefferson and Justin Coleman, and giving free-agent edge rusher Uchenna Nwosu a two-year, $20 million deal. Sure, they traded away Wilson and let go of Bobby Wagner, moves that felt like the beginning stages of a teardown. There is, after all, a much deeper draft class of quarterbacks slated to hit the NFL next year, and if the team bottoms out, it could be in position to draft Ohio State’s CJ Stroud or Alabama’s Bryce Young.īut Carroll and Schneider haven’t been acting like two guys overseeing a complete rebuild. For a fan base that has gotten damn good quarterback play for the better part of the past two decades-Matt Hasselbeck was a three-time Pro Bowler before Wilson and the Legion of Boom elevated the franchise-it might be hard to see this as anything but a tank job. So it looks like Lock and Geno will battle it out for the starting gig this summer. Instead, Seattle brought Geno Smith back into the fold on a one-year, $3.5 million deal, and Carroll said over the weekend that he didn’t see the team “making a trade for anybody at all.” And despite Baker Mayfield describing the Seahawks as his most likely destination in April, the team reportedly wasn’t interested. But despite being linked with several quarterbacks during the predraft cycle, Seattle didn’t select a passer with any of its nine picks. The timing of that trade gave Pete Carroll and John Schneider, the two-pronged brain trust that’s run the team since 2010, ample time to find a suitable replacement-either via trade or the draft. And one of the players Seattle got back in that trade, Drew Lock, could never quite establish himself in Denver and was initially penciled in at the top of the depth chart almost by default. The man who held that spot for 10 seasons, Russell Wilson, was traded away early in the offseason. ![]() But both of those guys should be full-speed and not have the guardrails they had in the offseason.For the first time in a decade, the Seahawks will go into training camp unsure of who will be their starting quarterback this fall. Devon’s going to push and push, and he and (cornerback) Michael Jackson are going to go after it for that starting spot opposite of Tariq (Woolen). And they’re going to be right there with the ‘ones.’ Jaxon will be in that No. “Unlike OTAs and unlike the minicamp where they were very guarded, where those guys did not do a lot of the team (workouts) or did limited reps – and both of them I think with hamstrings, certainly Jaxon’s hamstring still wanting to get right now – those guys are going to hit the ground running. ![]() A big reason is he expects they will see time working with the No. Huard thinks this week will be quite different for Witherspoon and Smith-Njigba compared to their previous sessions with their new team. There’s just frankly now not enough time.” I don’t think there’s going to be any holding back. “… I expect both of them to pass with flying colors and both of them to be full-speed. “I expect them to pass their physical,” Huard said. With Seahawks training camp beginning at team headquarters in Renton on Wednesday, what should be expected out of Seattle’s top two draft picks?įOX football analyst and former NFL quarterback Brock Huard shared his thoughts Monday during the Blue 88 segment of Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk. ![]()
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