Zorn76 wrote:I'm a bit puzzled by our first 3rd round selection (Prosise), and very surprised that we drafted 3 RB's overall. Definitely a need, but didn't see us dedicating that many choices to the position. I think Michael still has a legit shot at staying, but will need a solid TC and preseason to ensure it.
I would've liked to draft a CB somewhere in the 3rd.
The focus on RB's and the TE we selected are clearly insurance towards Rawls and Graham.
I'm also encouraged by the "C" grade we've received from PFF. I know they're a reputable site, but our recent drafts have graded out higher after a couple of years have passed.
Please allow me to comment and respectfully disagree just a little specifically with the first two parts I left quoted and expand on something that is bothering me about the past part I left quoted.
First, I never thought Michaels would still be with the team at this point. I give him almost zero chance to remain. I don't think he has ANY realistic chance at all, and I'll be shocked if he does. Clearly they've soured on him, and if trading him away, and then drafting three RB's doesn't say that, then nothing does.
Here's the thing about all those RB's that people are missing though. COMPETITION! At USC Pete Carroll ALWAYS had tons of 5 star RB's running around trying out to make the squad. That's because he sees RB's in very different roles. He likes the powerful bell cow back who can grind defenses to death, AND he likes the versatile, quick third down/change of pace RB as well. After Lynch's retirement, and having ONLY Michaels, a guy they are clearly soured on as Rawls depth, they HAD to take a bunch of RB's.
Something about Zac Brown the Seahawks have liked all along, he was an official VMAC visit. I really am not quite sure what it is they like, but I know they like having competition.
With Collins, he's a guy who looks remarkably like a player Pete had here last season until he was cut. In fact, he is everything some people wanted Derrick Henry to be, only he can actually make people miss in the backfield. He's similar to Henry, but fits our system better. He has enough strength and fight in him to legitimately think of him as having a little "Beastmode" in him. I see him as a Chris Ivory type of ceiling, (which isn't half bad!)
Prosise PERFECTLY fits that third down/change of pace/ Reggie Bush/Percy Harvin type of player.
With those last two guys think Reggie Bush and Lendale White. It really makes perfect sense considering what happened last year with injuries, and with Lynch's retirement. What happened last year won't happen again.
Which leads me to say, I don't think the focus on RB's and TE's is about Rawls and Graham, it's about Lynch's retirement, and trying to replace Zack Miller! We haven't had a blocking TE since he was cut. That HURT our ability to run two TE sets. Vannett was the best all around Y TE in the draft. That's what we are replacing IMO, our former blocking TE.
Finally, I agree completely with what you said about the low PFF grade. When will these pinheads learn that we don't draft for "value" or to fit what they think would fit our system? We draft FOR US. Period.
)The following isn't aimed at anyone in particular, and not at anyone here, I'm just venting).
Our front office would rather take a guy that everyone in the world says is a huge reach, while passing on a ton of players that everyone in the world thought would perfectly fit our system, and get the guy THEY WANT, regardless of so called "value" (which is nothing more than made up nonsense to keep guys like Kiper working) and regardless of how the so called experts have graded them. Odhiambo was the guy Cable wanted. We'll see if it was a mistake or not, but passing on three guys who everyone had rated high for us, because of their seeming fit as athletic guys with explosiveness, clearly tells us they just don't care what other experts or teams or whoever are saying about these guys.
Until proven otherwise, I'll give our front office the benefit of the doubt here.
Fans have seen this happen every single year (except perhaps the first year when they took Okung and Thomas in the first round), and yet they STILL don't get it. They still get all worked up about what the Seahawks are doing, because they read some magazine, or Mike Mayock's most recent mock draft, or PFF grade on a player, or etc...
I wonder if fans will ever start to just ignore the noise, and understand that John, Pete and Tom know A LOT MORE about these players than some hair-sprayed moron in a suit on TV, or some idiot on a lap top posting from his moms basement does. Everyone thinks they are an expert, everyone thinks they know something about this process, and yet, for the most part, they really don't know more than what anyone else who does a little research does, unless they get inside information. And even that has to be taken with a grain of salt given the head games GM's and coaches play with each other this time of year.
Point is, fans need to RELAX. The Seahawks got 10 guys they liked better than anyone else available to them when they picked, and given their track record of success, I can rest easy knowing that, and knowing, there isn't a better drafting team in the NFL right now.
Say buh bye.
