6 ways the Seahawks have gotten better since the start of training camp

Offensive line, pass rushers, a surprising tight end, and Ryan Grubb's offensive tendencies now showing out in August: 8/20/2024

If you’re a production company making a big budget movie, you certainly do not want to brag or panic based on reports and happenstances that occur before the release date. Heaven’s Gate going over-budget and Titanic going over-budget produced two entirely different outcomes. Getting Pacino and DeNiro for The Godfather Part II or casting them in Righteous Kill, again, two very different movies.

So I don’t want to get ahead of myself and write that just because the 49ers are financially frustrated with two key players holding out for more money (Aiyuk’s “hold-in” is just another example of a player signaling to the team that he’s weak in negotiations and not willing to lose a game check) and the Rams are fighting off the injury bug for another year in a row that the Seahawks have done any “catching up” to them since the start of training camp.

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However, if we are going to overstate the importance of everything that’s happened in the last four weeks, the Seattle Seahawks do have at least five or six key components of the team that I believe they can CONFIDENTLY say will be perceived in a better light today than it was at the start of camp.

From making arguably the most valuable player addition of any team this month to finding out that certain Seahawks could be better than we expected to finally getting some answers as to what Ryan Grubb’s offense will look like in the NFL, these are six ways that I think Seattle has improved since the start of training camp and what it means for the 2024 season: