Rumblings Hawks are making a big move today...

[Bob Loblaw]

Petellar Tendons are the hardest thing in sports to come back from. He is young and athletic, he'll never be quite as explosive as he was though. That's just the way it goes with P-Tendons.

 

[SomersetHawk]

That's why it was edited before quoted.

 

[JSeahawks]

They are clearly trying to get Okung and Mebane done ASAP. Thorton looks like a plan B for Mebane while Polk and Clemons look like additions. Polk is interesting to me largely as a UW fan for a few reasons. The injury concerns were what knocked him out of the 2012 draft and I'm not sure you can draw conclusions from his stint with Chip Kelly. He's been healthy recently and looks to be extremely cheap.

Unless anyone is willing to confirm this rumour is in fact a rumour?

Feels more like speculation and less like a rumor but that's just my take on it.

What knocked Polk out of the draft is that he doesn't have anything he's great at. He's decent all the way across the board but doesn't have a single traight that says, "we need or really want this guy over somebody else". In my opinion, professional athletes need at least one stand out skill or traight, and he doesn't have it.

I've been arguing that point since before he went undrafted.

 

[kearly]

Free Agency is supposed to be fun. Thanks Pe for reminding us of that.

1pm Pacific is 4pm Eastern, and 4pm eastern is when players officially become free agents and when teams can officially consummate trades.

Many teams will announce deals before they are official, but that's generally not how JS rolls. He likes keeping his options open until the last minute. So we usually don't hear about a trade until the players are already flying in for their physicals.

That this rumor suggests he's waiting until 1pm makes me strongly suspicious that it is a trade or trades.

My theory. Seattle is trying hard to keep Okung before 1pm. If they can't reach a deal for Okung by that time, they go to plan B, trading for Joe Thomas. It's possible this deal might involve Kam Chancellor.

Seems too obvious though, JS tends to be sneakier than that.

 

[kearly]

What knocked Polk out of the draft is that he doesn't have anything he's great at. He's decent all the way across the board but doesn't have a single traight that says, "we need or really want this guy over somebody else". In my opinion, professional athletes need at least one stand out skill or traight, and he doesn't have it.

To be fair, very few RBs in the NFL have stand out traits. The NFL is mostly comprised of fungible, jack of all trade RBs ala CJ Anderson.

 

[Hasselbeck]

A rumor I've heard .. again.. take it with a grain of salt.. is that it involves trading Kam - possibly for Martellus Bennett.

But we shall see.

 

[firebee]

Free Agency is supposed to be fun. Thanks Pe for reminding us of that.

1pm Pacific is 4pm Eastern, and 4pm eastern is when players officially become free agents and when teams can officially consummate trades.

Many teams will announce deals before they are official, but that's generally not how JS rolls. He likes keeping his options open until the last minute. So we usually don't hear about a trade until the players are already flying in for their physicals.

That this rumor suggests he's waiting until 1pm makes me strongly suspicious that it is a trade or trades.

My theory. Seattle is trying hard to keep Okung before 1pm. If they can't reach a deal for Okung by that time, they go to plan B, trading for Joe Thomas. It's possible this deal might involve Kam Chancellor.

Seems too obvious though, JS tends to be sneakier than that.

If I was looking at trades... Based on Clark dropping down to LEO size with Marsh already in the Mold of a LEO and Clemons being brought in for talks; I'd say Avril is looking like the guy we're looking to trade.

 

[gowazzu02]

If its a Rumor and Seattles name is tied to it, I always assume false. It seems Nothing Seattle actually does leaks,

 

[pehawk]

Love it firebee

 

[vin.couve12]

What knocked Polk out of the draft were reports of degenerative issues in his shoulders. He was not given a clean bill of health and it was supposedly always going to be an issue.

 

[Hawk-Lock]

Is Percy Harvin available? Let's make things right with him and give him a second chance!

 

[gowazzu02]

It would be awesome if seahawks.com had a press conference cam set up, and right at 1pm PST, the lights go out and you hear Jom Ross say something like "Good gawd! That's Joe Thomas's music!!!"

"He doesn't know it's a show. He thinks its a damn fight"

"Texas Slobber knocker"

 

[kearly]

If I was looking at trades... Based on Clark dropping down to LEO size with Marsh already in the Mold of a LEO and Clemons being brought in for talks; I'd say Avril is looking like the guy we're looking to trade.

I hope not. Avril is a good player on a relative bargain deal. Clark isn't proven as a LEO, Clemons is done, and Marsh is probably headed to OLB and is replacement level as a pass rusher.

 

[Overseasfan]

We're not trading Avril guys, calm down.

 

[chawx]

It's 15 minutes past 1pm PST ....

 

[London12]

The Seahawks app just gave me a notification right after reading this thread, I got excited!


"Matt Hasselbeck announces retirement"

 

[JAGHAWK]

It's 15 minutes past 1pm PST ....

SAME

 

[vin.couve12]

It's 15 minutes past 1pm PST ....

Post of the day WIN!!!

 

[JSeahawks]

It's 15 minutes past 1pm PST ....

Great gif.

 

[ivotuk]

One thing to keep in mind for the Hawks is their jedi mind tricks ability. They tricked a division rival into drafting another/other Rice TE, caused drama between a starting QB and said rival, and also masked their love of Wilson with the signing of Flynn.

Schneider and Pete prepare for the off-season similar to the baptism scene in the Godfather. They'll head into the draft sans glaring needs and try to take out other family heads along the way. Who they let be known they're interested in is by design.

You mean like getting another team to bite on Okung by expressing high interest in getting him resigned, so we can eliminate a contender for the services of another OT we want to bring in, like Schwartz or Sowell?

Or eliminate a competitor from drafting LT in the first round.