I don’t have a lot of faith in this years roster offensively or defensively. With a weak young pass rush up front and a very bad secondary on the back end teams will be putting up a lot of points and there is no way we can match them score for score. Look at our division, with offenses like the Rams n Cards and how stacked they are. I don’t see how we can compete, I mean take AZ they have an elite young QB and one of the best WR/TE rooms in the league between Hopkins, Hollywood Brown, Rondale Moore, AJ Green, Antoine Wesley, TEs Zac Ertz, Trey McBride, a healthy Max Williams and they have a stacked RB room with multiple hood pass catching backs. How are we going to contain an offense that loaded with such youth were dependent upon up and down the defensive roster? And with Locks n Smiths penchant for throwing INTs it could get real ugly real quick. And look at our schedule, it’s not just LA n AZ who are loaded we have to worry about it’s several teams. Pete is really going to have to work his magic this year because without a complete miracle we’re in real trouble and will seriously struggle to win games though given the QB class coming out next year maybe tanking is SEAs plan.
I thought the following study supported what you pointed out in your article - late rounders are mostly for special teams purposes. For QB and LT, most come from high first-round picks. It’s good to see that the Hawks gambled on LT with their high first round pick. Don’t get that chance very often.
My rule of thumb with rookies is that we get a good idea of a realistic ceiling in their second year. There will always be exceptions—who saw Derrick Henry coming mid-way through his sophomore season?—but this seems like a reasonable baseline.
Re expectations, I consider the bar that the team sets; the Seahawk bar is that the 2022 and 2023 drafts will be foundational. I don’t really care where the best players come from, but when you trade the franchise QB and amass nine Day 1-2 picks, at least six of them should play at the level of key contributor to team that can go deep into the playoffs.
Possibly that’s overly demanding, but I don’t think so—not when the context is trading Russell Wilson and the near complete botch of the 2016-2017 drafts. (To this day, I think that drafting Malik McDowell was a firing offense.) Either the 2022-2023 classes must pay off or there is a house-cleaning in the FO.
To be fair I was trying to disagree nicely. I think our skill positions on offense are very good. I think our O line will be much better than rated. Defense maybe it's because I have seen very little pass rush for so long that I am not confident. I know Clint Hurt is very good , but rookies rushing the passer rarely have a huge impact. I think our secondary is good and we have the best safety combo in the league.
Next time I won't be Canadian, and say more of what I feel. I tried to say the Cards are a house of Cards while not pissing someone off. It is far better to under promise, but I still am not sure we can get consistent pressure. I do see us playing with 3 safeties which will make their QB thinking a lot more .
I don’t have a lot of faith in this years roster offensively or defensively. With a weak young pass rush up front and a very bad secondary on the back end teams will be putting up a lot of points and there is no way we can match them score for score. Look at our division, with offenses like the Rams n Cards and how stacked they are. I don’t see how we can compete, I mean take AZ they have an elite young QB and one of the best WR/TE rooms in the league between Hopkins, Hollywood Brown, Rondale Moore, AJ Green, Antoine Wesley, TEs Zac Ertz, Trey McBride, a healthy Max Williams and they have a stacked RB room with multiple hood pass catching backs. How are we going to contain an offense that loaded with such youth were dependent upon up and down the defensive roster? And with Locks n Smiths penchant for throwing INTs it could get real ugly real quick. And look at our schedule, it’s not just LA n AZ who are loaded we have to worry about it’s several teams. Pete is really going to have to work his magic this year because without a complete miracle we’re in real trouble and will seriously struggle to win games though given the QB class coming out next year maybe tanking is SEAs plan.
I thought the following study supported what you pointed out in your article - late rounders are mostly for special teams purposes. For QB and LT, most come from high first-round picks. It’s good to see that the Hawks gambled on LT with their high first round pick. Don’t get that chance very often.
https://theathletic.com/3242308/2022/04/13/nfl-draft-analysis-2022/?source=user_shared_article
My rule of thumb with rookies is that we get a good idea of a realistic ceiling in their second year. There will always be exceptions—who saw Derrick Henry coming mid-way through his sophomore season?—but this seems like a reasonable baseline.
Re expectations, I consider the bar that the team sets; the Seahawk bar is that the 2022 and 2023 drafts will be foundational. I don’t really care where the best players come from, but when you trade the franchise QB and amass nine Day 1-2 picks, at least six of them should play at the level of key contributor to team that can go deep into the playoffs.
Possibly that’s overly demanding, but I don’t think so—not when the context is trading Russell Wilson and the near complete botch of the 2016-2017 drafts. (To this day, I think that drafting Malik McDowell was a firing offense.) Either the 2022-2023 classes must pay off or there is a house-cleaning in the FO.
To be fair I was trying to disagree nicely. I think our skill positions on offense are very good. I think our O line will be much better than rated. Defense maybe it's because I have seen very little pass rush for so long that I am not confident. I know Clint Hurt is very good , but rookies rushing the passer rarely have a huge impact. I think our secondary is good and we have the best safety combo in the league.
Next time I won't be Canadian, and say more of what I feel. I tried to say the Cards are a house of Cards while not pissing someone off. It is far better to under promise, but I still am not sure we can get consistent pressure. I do see us playing with 3 safeties which will make their QB thinking a lot more .