Once again dear Seahawk fans I will jump into the breach and give my yearly mundane preseason predictions. The winners and losers will all depend on who gets injured and for how long! This rules out teams with brain injured owners ( Cowboys, Raiders, Jets, Browns and Gigantes!) You can thank me in the comments.
JS can finally sit back and let his phone ring. He sits atop a first-year Offense, a second-year Defense and Special Teams second to none, all while holding the latest Lombardi. Toss in sights set on a very possible 4-peat and who wouldn't be interested?
Really appreciate the perspective on Achane - I saw the reports yesterday and immediately paused to think: why wouldn’t we have just signed K9 instead of giving up draft capital and then paying even more for a similar player.
I left my thoughts on Survivor on the super-joe’s thread from this week. I find myself geeking at the tv every week seeing some of my favorite players back on my tv navigating things like the “Billie eilish boomerang idol”
Yeah, I think Achane is not going to happen, and in fact that JS is not even interested given the likely price, the fact that Achane will need to get paid second contract money next year, etc.
This stuff reminds me of the Crosby dance, which from what I could tell was nearly entirely driven by the internet, with people of good faith salivating over what Crosby could bring. I agreed with the saliva, just as I agree similarly with Achane, but JS is just not going to do it, absent some truly amazing deal he gets from Miami. JS has bills to pay, very soon...
And Surratt was signed. We only lost 5 players from last year. We added Safeties Thomas and Bell to compete for Bryant’s spot, and Wilson to compete for K9’s spot. I think CB and Edge will come in the draft to add players to compete for our lost edge4 and CB3. With improved play from our last two rookie classes and potentially only seeing a decline in a few older players, we could be as good or better than last year depending on who wins RB1 and RB2. I think Haynes will be traded for a 7th round pick this year, to give us 5 picks. I think JS will want to trade back from 32, but won’t find a dance partner.
I could be better but I'm not bad, thanks for asking. One of the things standing in the way of being better is (re-)developing non-negotiable habits, including my previously long-standing meditation habit.
How do you develop and maintain those habits, Joe?
Being able to give advice on non-negotiables is something I think about often but struggle to articulate. Seven years ago a meditation teacher told me that Vedic meditation is "non-negotiable" and it just instantly clicked as if that was the phrase I was waiting 36 years to hear. She said "If you meditate 2x a day for a year that's 730 sits" and it felt almost like a dare, so I had to accept the challenge. I have meditated 2x per day since that day in February 2019 without missing one. And why? Nobody cares except me. Nobody even knows if I'm telling the truth except me.
And nobody would be disappointed in me if I stopped except me.
I'm not a person who does great with authority. Ask my mom how many times she had to talk to the principal or vice principal and she'll confirm it's true. But there is one authority who matters and you can probably guess the answer: I don't want to let myself down. I'll know if I cheated, I'll know if I failed, I'll know if I lied to myself. That's enough for me.
I've thought of my life as a company and I'm everyone who works in the company. I'm the CEO, I'm the middle manager, I'm the mailroom guy, I'm the lunch lady, I'm everyone in the company. So if the mailroom guy slips up, the CEO knows it. If the CEO slips up, the lunch lady could hold him accountable. It's easy to err when you know you'll get away with it, but it's impossible to mess up when the person holding you accountable is always watching. This newsletter is the only non-negotiable that I have where there are other people who can hold me accountable and prove that I missed a day, which you know that I haven't. But I'm just as stringent with the other 20 or so non's that I have every day with nobody watching.
If you want to meditate every day, I can't really give you any better advice than to just do it and hold yourself accountable to do it. If you don't do it, you're the only one disappointed. And if you do it, you're the only one satisfied. Most people living happy lives don't have non-negotiable daily habits so there are plenty of ways to enjoy living. This just happens to work for me. Something else might work for you. This just happened to click perfectly into how I was already living. It just put a word to it and the word helped me form a routine that gives me a very satisfying feeling every night when I go to bed.
Love this. Thanks for sharing! I would add that, if you miss a day (and, really, it's when you miss a day) don't miss two. Start. Just start. Then start again. This is, as SSJ says, for you.
In the draft pick trade scenario I accidentally flipped my fourths and my fifths: Seahawks would have to trade a 2027 fourth rounder to get a 2026 fifth rounder.
I've heard it said that 2027 class is better than 2026, so does Seattle even want to do a deal like that? Maybe not.
I really like the RB Wilson and S Thomas II signings. Those guys both have good tape. I'm not as high on CB Noah I. He looks like he's lost and not looking for the ball much, but he's a willing tackler it looks like.
So...I know it's unlikely and it's just a sim, but I'm able to trade with the jets at 16 giving up our first this year and next year while getting the jets 3rd rounder. It just seems worth the way this draft and potentially the next draft it might be beneficial to trade with a team you think might give a high 3rd next year for a late 1 because you might still be getting a similar quality player at that point whereas you'd be getting a much better player this year at 16 than at 32. I know it's not likely but I'm dreaming up ways to avoid getting just OK players this year. I want a couple guys that can bring it and I want a new guard for AB.
My 1st comment was going to be aboit the class quality and depth vs. 2027's, too.
JS, having a contending roster and not much draft capital this year, has already built up the most 2027 picks (including projected compensatory picks) in that better class. I could totally see him staying put this year, or even moving a few spots to grab a RB as your Price scenario in the article. But, I don't see him trading away any day 1 or 2 picks from next year.
He will stick to the gameplan he has spent 15+yrs polishing.
Huge Trench men will always be open for drafting. My bet is our coaches and players have weekly beers to discuss up-and-comers and who could best fit as "one of us". Emphasis on "us". We haven't had cohesion lately, if ever. Benton changed all that.
I for one do not think you over explain in Seaside Joe. I find your work well balanced.
Once again dear Seahawk fans I will jump into the breach and give my yearly mundane preseason predictions. The winners and losers will all depend on who gets injured and for how long! This rules out teams with brain injured owners ( Cowboys, Raiders, Jets, Browns and Gigantes!) You can thank me in the comments.
Back when I set type for a living I typed 120 words a minute, including the codes. Old hands aren’t quite so limber and modern keyboards suck.
JS can finally sit back and let his phone ring. He sits atop a first-year Offense, a second-year Defense and Special Teams second to none, all while holding the latest Lombardi. Toss in sights set on a very possible 4-peat and who wouldn't be interested?
Really appreciate the perspective on Achane - I saw the reports yesterday and immediately paused to think: why wouldn’t we have just signed K9 instead of giving up draft capital and then paying even more for a similar player.
I left my thoughts on Survivor on the super-joe’s thread from this week. I find myself geeking at the tv every week seeing some of my favorite players back on my tv navigating things like the “Billie eilish boomerang idol”
Yeah, I think Achane is not going to happen, and in fact that JS is not even interested given the likely price, the fact that Achane will need to get paid second contract money next year, etc.
This stuff reminds me of the Crosby dance, which from what I could tell was nearly entirely driven by the internet, with people of good faith salivating over what Crosby could bring. I agreed with the saliva, just as I agree similarly with Achane, but JS is just not going to do it, absent some truly amazing deal he gets from Miami. JS has bills to pay, very soon...
Seahawks re-signed Cody White
And Surratt was signed. We only lost 5 players from last year. We added Safeties Thomas and Bell to compete for Bryant’s spot, and Wilson to compete for K9’s spot. I think CB and Edge will come in the draft to add players to compete for our lost edge4 and CB3. With improved play from our last two rookie classes and potentially only seeing a decline in a few older players, we could be as good or better than last year depending on who wins RB1 and RB2. I think Haynes will be traded for a 7th round pick this year, to give us 5 picks. I think JS will want to trade back from 32, but won’t find a dance partner.
I think your way of thinking on this is correct.
Though the rams a few years ago went all in on veterans big contracts and won a super-bowl.
I believe if Schneider believes a running back is all he needs to win another he might pay a end of 2nd round pic.
Trade back his first for more pics, or pic up his need end of first round.
I could be better but I'm not bad, thanks for asking. One of the things standing in the way of being better is (re-)developing non-negotiable habits, including my previously long-standing meditation habit.
How do you develop and maintain those habits, Joe?
Being able to give advice on non-negotiables is something I think about often but struggle to articulate. Seven years ago a meditation teacher told me that Vedic meditation is "non-negotiable" and it just instantly clicked as if that was the phrase I was waiting 36 years to hear. She said "If you meditate 2x a day for a year that's 730 sits" and it felt almost like a dare, so I had to accept the challenge. I have meditated 2x per day since that day in February 2019 without missing one. And why? Nobody cares except me. Nobody even knows if I'm telling the truth except me.
And nobody would be disappointed in me if I stopped except me.
I'm not a person who does great with authority. Ask my mom how many times she had to talk to the principal or vice principal and she'll confirm it's true. But there is one authority who matters and you can probably guess the answer: I don't want to let myself down. I'll know if I cheated, I'll know if I failed, I'll know if I lied to myself. That's enough for me.
I've thought of my life as a company and I'm everyone who works in the company. I'm the CEO, I'm the middle manager, I'm the mailroom guy, I'm the lunch lady, I'm everyone in the company. So if the mailroom guy slips up, the CEO knows it. If the CEO slips up, the lunch lady could hold him accountable. It's easy to err when you know you'll get away with it, but it's impossible to mess up when the person holding you accountable is always watching. This newsletter is the only non-negotiable that I have where there are other people who can hold me accountable and prove that I missed a day, which you know that I haven't. But I'm just as stringent with the other 20 or so non's that I have every day with nobody watching.
If you want to meditate every day, I can't really give you any better advice than to just do it and hold yourself accountable to do it. If you don't do it, you're the only one disappointed. And if you do it, you're the only one satisfied. Most people living happy lives don't have non-negotiable daily habits so there are plenty of ways to enjoy living. This just happens to work for me. Something else might work for you. This just happened to click perfectly into how I was already living. It just put a word to it and the word helped me form a routine that gives me a very satisfying feeling every night when I go to bed.
Good luck!
Love this. Thanks for sharing! I would add that, if you miss a day (and, really, it's when you miss a day) don't miss two. Start. Just start. Then start again. This is, as SSJ says, for you.
In the draft pick trade scenario I accidentally flipped my fourths and my fifths: Seahawks would have to trade a 2027 fourth rounder to get a 2026 fifth rounder.
I've heard it said that 2027 class is better than 2026, so does Seattle even want to do a deal like that? Maybe not.
Late question: Will you be changing your avatar?
I really like the RB Wilson and S Thomas II signings. Those guys both have good tape. I'm not as high on CB Noah I. He looks like he's lost and not looking for the ball much, but he's a willing tackler it looks like.
So...I know it's unlikely and it's just a sim, but I'm able to trade with the jets at 16 giving up our first this year and next year while getting the jets 3rd rounder. It just seems worth the way this draft and potentially the next draft it might be beneficial to trade with a team you think might give a high 3rd next year for a late 1 because you might still be getting a similar quality player at that point whereas you'd be getting a much better player this year at 16 than at 32. I know it's not likely but I'm dreaming up ways to avoid getting just OK players this year. I want a couple guys that can bring it and I want a new guard for AB.
My 1st comment was going to be aboit the class quality and depth vs. 2027's, too.
JS, having a contending roster and not much draft capital this year, has already built up the most 2027 picks (including projected compensatory picks) in that better class. I could totally see him staying put this year, or even moving a few spots to grab a RB as your Price scenario in the article. But, I don't see him trading away any day 1 or 2 picks from next year.
He will stick to the gameplan he has spent 15+yrs polishing.
Huge Trench men will always be open for drafting. My bet is our coaches and players have weekly beers to discuss up-and-comers and who could best fit as "one of us". Emphasis on "us". We haven't had cohesion lately, if ever. Benton changed all that.