One thing that is being missed here is Unger had been getting injured and a new contract was coming up - Seattle got cold feet committing to a getting-injured-more-frequently center and decided to make lemonade and get Graham - finally turning Cringeruss in the real Mr Unlimited. People talk about how seattle has no screen game, no tight end game - but for 10 years we supposedly had Mr. Unlimited - which could turn out to be the greatest irony in history if we didn't use those schemes because Wilson was weak at them - we know straight ahead vision can be tough for the vertically challenged. If he was able to perform them well, there would be no reason not to use them. It was the same through 3 OC's - wilson is the common denominator - and Carroll/Schneider. hard for me to believe seattle only hires OC's that don't have those playbooks. Just makes no sense. I feel like 80% of the Lambs offense is f*cking screens that we can't coverSeattleAddict wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:52 pmwhile I fundamentally agree, for all the times it's failed, it's also WORKED a bunch of times. Richard Sherman and Tariq Woolen were WRs. Sweeney was a DT moved to G. Dissley was a DT moved to TE. Michael Robinson was a QB moved to FB. Terrelle Pryor was a QB moved to WR.
Elsewhere, Antwaan Randle El went QB to WR, Devin McCourty, Ronnie Lott, Rod Woodson and Charles Woodson were CBs that became all pro Safeties, Devin Hester was a CB, Todd Christensen was a FB and turned into a great TE, Dante Hall was a RB, Julian Edelman a QB, etc etc
It wasn't like they wanted to turn Graham and Parkinson into blocking TEs, just that they planned on asking them to do it more. I think it's logical to assume it's easier to teach a big guy that can catch to become a competent blocker than it is to turn a tackle into a receiver.
I'm not defending the Graham trade, just answering the question. The Graham trade was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole for a QB that wanted an extra peg.
It really was a square peg/round hole situation.
