jblaze":2ihrehzd said:
We have a lot of middle/lower tier WR depth, not a lot of top level WR's, there's a big difference.
Kearse isn't going anywhere. He's our #2 WR right now and he has a lot of experience.
Today's KC game will tell us a lot about what we do from here. They're experimenting with position changes because we're in kind of a crisis on the OL right now. If Britt works out well at LG and Gilliam does well at RT, we may be set.
If not, we likely don't let Mathis leave tomorrow without signing him and we move Britt back to RT. There are a dozen ways to squeeze someone in under the cap if you want to.
Tonight's game will tell us a lot about what we do from here. This OL trouble is a big mess right now and I don't care if you have the best defense in the game, the LOB, Lynch, RW and Jimmy. If you don't have an O line, it's all for naught.
They will do whatever it takes to make the OL serviceable.
Honestly its about 50-50 at this point. Seahawks view thier WR situation as deep. Maybe not suberbly talented but deep as in you have a logjam of WRs that are close in ability and talent.
Kearse's 2.4m cap hit is a big number. If they felt he was a long term solution its likely they would have restructured to get that cap hit down at this point.
I think you could get a 6th rounder for Kearse, with conditional language that can escalate it into a 5th ie if he catches over 60 passes or 750 yards or 7 TDs.
And out of all the QBs in the NFL, I would rate Newton has one of the best whose abilities mesh very well with Kearse's strengths. The fact that thier WR corps has been average since Newton also gives Kearse some inconsistentcy lienancy.
For the Seahawks, if they roster 1 or 2 of Norwood, Smith, Daniels, and/or Williams, Seahawks will save about 1.9m for trading Kearse. Yhese are expected to make 400-500k.
With Kearse gone, it also forces Lockett and Matthews to step-up and get more snaps. Thats vital experience for guys who will be under contract for 2016.
And when its all said and done if you denote that Matthews only played the SB, Miller played 3 games last year and Harvin with 4 games before the trade. You're pretty much skill position wise only losing Kearse but gaining Graham, Lockett, and Matthews... Health withstanding.
I thought Kearse's experience would be vital and would essentially make him a shoe-in but if the team can trade him for value while liking the depth at the position to make a move. And that move is the catalyst for signing Evan Mathis to protect Russell Wilson. I dont know why anybody would not be behind it.