Seahawks' Free Agents and Offseason Tracker

[HawkandMariner88]

They weren't big ticket items. I think JS has tended away from large FA contract targets. Bennett was one year $4.8mil, Avril was two years $13mil. He signed a couple this last off season with Lawrence and Darnold. He does look to resign his players. It's kinda the approach dipoto seems to follow isn't it

They were the two best pass rushers on the market and we needed pass rushers. As was mentioned, we needed a WR, went after Kupp. Imagine this team without Darnold and Lawrence? They tried to sign a Guard this off season but he refused to take the physical. Probably a little bit of a red flag right there.

In the NFL, I don't think you can look at what JS has done and just say "he doesn't go after FAs" He addresses needs, sure as shit. Often times it's in the form of trades, but I don't know that giving up draft capital is always the way to go. Sheldon Richardson, Percy Harvin, Marshawn Lynch, Jimmy Graham, Jamal Adams, Duane Brown, Ernest Jones.....all guys he felt we needed so he went after.

Has he often times signed FAs? No, but my guess is it wasn't some engrained fear of FAs, it was not having the player he wanted at a position of need.

Yeah, I meant he didn't go after expensive FAs. I didn't think Hendrickson or Linderbaum would be typical targets but with this last off season maybe that's wrong. Yeah, there was Aaron Banks too? I saw him listed as a possible cap casualty BTW. Maybe he's on the market again

2 players definitely worth investing in.

[D-train]

Anyone nervous about the Patriots?

No, not in the least. have you seen their schedule, or what they did to conquer the great Jarred Stidham?

I have a feeling that older pats fans will be having 40 year flash backs...

Super Bowl XX

1986
The Bears defeated the Patriots by the score of 46–10, capturing their first NFL championship since 1963, three years prior to the birth of the Super Bowl.

[D-train]

[Michael K.]

2 players definitely worth investing in.

Yep, simply defaulting to "they never spend in FA" is lazy. They go after players they see value in. Sometimes that is in a trade. Sometime the market dictates that they get a screaming deal like it did with Avril and Bennett. But to pretend they never go after big time players that they feel will make an impact? Again, short sighted.

Duane Brown
Sheldon Richardson
Percy Harvin
Marshawn Lynch
Jimmy Graham
Ernest Jones
Julian Love (FA)
Sam Darnold (FA)
Cooper Kupp (FA)
Demarcus Lawrence (FA)
Jarran Reed (FA)
MVS (FA)
Cliff Avril (FA)
Michael Bennett (FA)

I'm sure I've missed some. But Schneider makes moves he believes will help the team. If there is a FA out there that would allow them to spend some of their amble cap space and not cost them draft capital in a trade? I just don't see why looking at what he has done in the past and poo pooing it because he never does that makes any sense at all.

I see 7 names above with (FA) after them that made bit impacts on teams. Yeah, I could see why we would think that will never happen again.

[Captain 97]

Barkley is currently the Highest paid running back at 20.6 Million a year but walker is going to get 30. OK

[Michael K.]

Barkley is currently the Highest paid running back at 20.6 Million a year but walker is going to get 30. OK

Recency Bias. He's had a good year, but this year wasn't really the year of the back like last year.

James Cook was the NFL Rushing leader this year with 1621 yards.
Barkley had 2005 yards and Derrick Henry had 1921 yards just last year.

Henry had a pretty decent collapse finishing this year with 1595 yards. But Barkley falling off a Cliff and the Eagles basically exploding? Might impact FA RBs moving forward. Barkley was 10th in rushing this year, with nearly 900 fewer yards than last year. His per carry average fell from 5.8 to 4.1!

Good thing the Eagles did all they could to put a smile on butter fingers Brown's face.

By comparison? K9 had 1027 yards, 5 TDs and averaged 4.6 per carry. Saying that will earn him $10 million more a year than Barkley is incredibly irresponsible!