Tusc2000":388ue49f said:
We may not know much about this year's draft yet -- but we know a lot about the past 7 years. Since 2012, our drafts have largely been below average. We've gotten some starters and a few good players here and there who've lasted, but not a whole lot of studs.
Our draft success in the last 7 years have turned out to be a very big drop off from 2010-2012, when Pete's off-the-charts knowledge of college players was simply way better than anyone else's, because he'd been studying them for years. Now we're just like everyone else -- maybe a little worse.
In the last quarter of the most recent season, Seattle still had a legitimate shot at the number one seed. With two games remaining, they controlled their own destiny for #1 seed, and if what you say is true, that Seattle is drafting worse than everyone else this past seven years, then the feat last year was nothing short of down right amazing.
So how can you do this without drafting well? I suppose you can make a splash with free agents. I suppose you can develop mediocre players into becoming overachievers. I suppose that you can be such a master strategist, that your football acumen can overcome the significant shortcomings of an unsatisfactory roster. I don't know. Just throwing stuff out there trying to understand how.
Explain this to me.
By the way, I think that DK Metcalf is Seattle's best draft pick since Bobby Wagner. He broke a rookie playoff receiving record in the wildcard game verse Philly. He is an ascending player.