Well I was thoroughly enjoying the Inaugural Live Blog on Seahawkaddicts.com, lots of news seemed to break. Anyway, nothing that shatters the foundations of what we know, well except that Ken Hamlin was franchised. Never thought i would say that! Anyway...
- Hawks have hired a new Quality Control Coach. His name is Chris Beake and he was Mora's former LB coach. Frank Hughes broke the news at Seahawk Insider, he also has link to a bio on the guy. Check it out.
-Also, Deshaun Foster has been released. Adds to the RB market, however, i would not expect the Hawks to even take a look. If there is one think Holmgren hates, it is a fumbler!
-The Hawks have already met with a bunch of players at the combine, including some TE's. As I mentioned in the LIVE BLOG, the Hawks will probably meet with 90% of the tight ends, the 10% being the ones with criminal records.
I think what i will do is recap who the Hawks have met with at the end of the day, all in one post. Unless it is something that needs immediate discussion, that is the plan. Besides, the LIVE BLOG was so much fun I think I will do it again tomorrow during the combine coverage on NFLN. Hope more of you stop by, it is pretty cool! Go into the post and check it out! I am taking the afternoon off unless something major happens. I think later I am going to answer some questions, so get em' in.
Ken Hamlin was Franchised?! Will wonders never cease? He is a good athlete, but a wet-brain. Jones has more money than brains. Still, this begs the question: why did the Hawks dump a guy for no compensation when 1 year later he is a Pro Bowler and Franchised?
ReplyDeleteOh well, Grant is a nice consolation prize, and much cheaper than what Hamlin gets paid.
profootballtalk.com is reporting that Hawks are going to whack Shaun in the next couple of days.
ReplyDeleteProFootballTalk sez:
ReplyDeleteSHAUN GETTING THE SHAFT?
We're hearing multiple rumblings from our connections at the Scouting Combine that the Seahawks could be cutting running back Shaun Alexander soon.
A media source told us moments ago that the move could come "in the next couple of days."
It would be the last step in a dramatic fall from grace for running back the NFL's MVP in 2005. Once Alexander got rewarded with a big contract in 2006, his performance began to dip. In 2007, he was, as the league insider types say, "just a guy."
Alexander is under contract through 2013, with total remaining non-guaranteed base salaries of $43.1625 million.
I hope the Hawks give SA one more shot. This article isnt fair--he got hurt in '06, then ran like the devil in some huge games. Last season he had injuries and the worst OL ever. He never did get any respect from the Media, now they have selective memory.
ReplyDeleteAnd no one ever expected the last 2-3 years of the contract to stand, excpet maybe SA. It was bound to get reworked, even if he did perform and not get injured.
It wasnt the big contract that got him injured, it wasnt the big contract that let Hutch get away, and it wasnt the big contract that couldnt block my grandma on the DL all last season.
"league insider types" are a bunch of geeky wannabe's who know about as much about football and Seattle as I know about nuclear physics.
Sure will be wierd if the Hawks dump him for minimal cap savings. At least there are some great RB's available in the draft.
we could only be so lucky as to get rid of that has been. I wonder if they have a play called shaun pussy foot and fall down, on two on two ready break.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I appreciate Shaun's pre 2006 performance, we need to move on. I've seen him lay down at the threat of contact too many times (He looked exactly like Chris Warren in his last "don't hurt me" years).
ReplyDeleteHis pre contract and post contract performance drop reminds me of Rick Meir years ago. Meir lit it up pretty good at first then signed a big contract and immediately became "just a guy" collecting a check.
-PaulySINM
Re: Hamlin, he got burnt deep as we all know but how much of his leaving had to do with him not fitting the character of a Ruskell-built team? I would guess a lot.
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Locklear Locked Up!
ReplyDeleteThe requisite URL..
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3257645
LOOKS LIKE WE LOCKED UP LOCKLEAR. THE CONTRACT SEEMS TO BE PRETTY BIG AND I'M VERY CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THIS DONE WITH OUR CAP SPACE. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO WE MIGHT CUT TO CLEAR SOME MORE SPACE FOR FA SIGNINGS??
ReplyDeleteI was going to report that about Locklear but you beat me to it. They must have told Numbskull to go play with his toys, the adults were talking. So how the hell does this work with under $6 mil in cap space?
ReplyDeleteIt's about time that Alexander got the ax. I've hated this bum since his tirade against Holmgren back in 2004 after the Atlanta game, last game of the season where we clinched the division and home playoff game, and he's whining about "coach didn't take care of me, coach stabbed me in the back". All he cares about is himself and his own accolades. Piss on him. The sooner this two-faced bible thumping hypocrite is gone the better.
wow that is big news about locklear and even bigger about shaun if it is true.
ReplyDeleteMy question is have the hawks met with any RB's yet? Will they meet with stewart and mendenhall?
so, you spend all day blogging about the seahawks? grad school must be really tough these days huh...
ReplyDeleteHamlin was let go in free agency probably because yes, he's not a "Ruskell guy" in the sense that he's not a goody-two shoes and he wasn't drafted/signed by Ruskell. I'm not big on the Pro Bowl since it seems more of a popularity contest (Sam Adams was voted to it the year after Holmgren let him go in free agency). But that and getting Franchised means the Cowboys see something in him Ruskell overlooked (surprise, surprise). I think if you want choir boys, go to Vienna. If you want football players, you better learn to live with the fact that Francis of Assissi didn't put on pads every week and try to put someone in the hurt locker.
ReplyDeletebeing that my inlaws are all cowgirl fans i watch every cowboys game. hamlin was let go because he is horrible in pass defense..he got burned over and over on deep pass plays. nothing changed last year i watched him get burned atleast a dozen time.
ReplyDeletebet you still miss Ddrop.