Discussion about this post

User's avatar
sbb's avatar

>>No matter the era, there must be some running backs who made you become a football fan.

I was just inspired to share that my favorite RB of all time is Earl Campbell - fast, violent, and amazing!

Expand full comment
Parallax's avatar

The problem as I see it is humans aren't good at nuanced arguments. We don't do well with contradiction. So with something like covid, instead of holding that masks are helpful under certain circumstances but can only protect one so much, as vaccines will do this much but not that, people align around simple categories. Masks good, masks bad. Vaccines good, vaccines bad. And the like.

Same with this. There are reasons why it may not make sense to take Saquon Barkley number 2 overall in the modern NFL even if it did make sense to draft Eric Dickerson second overall back in "83 and Barry Sanders #3 ten years later.

These things are complex and nuanced. As with any specific draft pick, won't know if it made sense to take Walker at 41 for a few years. Only hindsight can answer those questions. To the more generic question of whether it can make sense to take a runner back high in the second round in 2022, I think there's a strong argument to be made why that particular risk is as good as (if not better than) any other for particular teams (the Seahawks among them).

Those who identify the Seahawks as set at running back are ignorant and lazy, and not worthy of our time. They're taking the most facile look at the roster without curiosity or an interest in digging even an inch deeper. Anyone who knows anything about our team knows we weren't in any way all set at running back going into the draft. A 7 year old could tell you that if they're a Seahawks fan.

Expand full comment
24 more comments...

No posts