As much as we can rail on Pete Carroll and Shane Waldron (rightly so), I still believe that this team can become a contender in 1 or 2 seasons. I also thought our team’s future was bleak and went into complete doomer mode after the missed field goal, but I came to realize that John Schneider has been killing it with the draft picks after the Russell Wilson trade. Even with the late picks that weren’t from the trade. Like the JSN and Charbonnet picks (I’ll admit, I didn’t like these picks at first, but I was flat our wrong and I’ll take the L on that take. They’ve been balling out despite their limited workload!) alongside late round picks like Anthony Bradford and Olusegun Oluwatimi. I know Bradford’s from the Denver trade, but he’s still a late round steal. If we can…

  1. keep hitting on draft picks and let Pete Carroll coach them up

  2. gradually shed some of our overpaid veterans in a way that doesn’t result in too much in terms of dead cap losses

  3. replace Shane Waldron with a more exciting OC

and finally

  1. draft a rookie qb that can learn under Geno, as Geno, himself, excitedly endorsed the idea of teaching his eventual replacement

then we’ll have something to look forward to again. Feel free to counter these points as I just thought of these on a whim, but I don’t think our franchise is screwed just yet.

  • AirplaneReferenceBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    One of the most painful things about this season is that there’s too much damn talent on this offense for our games to be this stressful on a regular basis. A team with DK, Lockett, JSN, the ultimate utility guy in Bobo, one of the better multipurpose tight ends rooms and K9 should not have an offense that is stuck in mud this often.

    The flip side of that is that there’s so much damn talent on this team. We can build. If 6-3/6-4 is where we’re at when we’re disappointing compared to our potential then if we make the right moves we could be scary next year (or this one if we can get our shit together.)