I know this doesn't mean crap to any of you but I am going to say it anyways. My next door neighbor is a major sports fan. The kind of guy who has stats and facts that you and I wouldn't even dream of. So for 15 years I have listened to him talk sports, and NFL specifically since that's my one and only pro sport I follow, obviously Seahawks specifically.
Too many times to count he will give me insight on a player that I have never heard of. Case in point, he kept telling me about someone named Russell Wilson. I had no clue who he was. He said to paraphrase, "He's the guy I am most interested in..." Or something to that effect. Of course we know what happened. After we drafted him he looked at me and smiled and basically said, "Just watch. You guys are gonna love him."
So needless to say the equity was built. When he talks about potential draft picks I tend to listen. So that's why a few days ago when he started rambling about someone named D.K. Metcalf I was intrigued. He talked about his size and his arm length which seems to extend like some superhero. Even though he could and did speak of many, many other players, he kept coming back to D.K. He thought that it would be a very smart pick for the Seahawks to take.
So that became my battle cry for the 2019 draft. I am about as ignorant to the draft and college players as it gets. I pretty much don't care until you are a Seahawk. Then suddenly, I care very much about you, lol.
Like last year when my daughter and I sat on the couch praying the Seahawks would take Shaquem, and it was so electric when they did! It's how I felt when I got the pop up notice on my Seahawks app on my phone that the Hawks traded up to grab D.K.
Of course, nobody has a clue how the story ends. With Shaquem or D.K. But the point is, and I digress, the fact that he spent so much time talking to me about D.K. I will gladly take it as some sort of good omen, that he is going to be a fantastic player for us.
Then again, perhaps it's just the turkey sandwich talking.
