Huh?SixSeahawk":2a6l17lk said:LOL you got to enjoy a Super Bowl championship because of this guy. And there's a very high likelihood that you won't again for a long time to come. Like the previous poster said, as soon as a healthy Marshawn wasn't in the picture, the team barely made the playoffs.
Stop being ungrateful. It's not even your money.
bjornanderson21":1wh1djkx said:Huh?SixSeahawk":1wh1djkx said:LOL you got to enjoy a Super Bowl championship because of this guy. And there's a very high likelihood that you won't again for a long time to come. Like the previous poster said, as soon as a healthy Marshawn wasn't in the picture, the team barely made the playoffs.
Stop being ungrateful. It's not even your money.
Lynch sucked last year, and we got better when he stopped playing.
We would have been better off without him last year so Im not sure why you would say that.
Also, Lynch sucked in our Super Bowl victory. He helped us get there, but he didn't really help us win.
bjornanderson21":3db9zyox said:Huh?SixSeahawk":3db9zyox said:LOL you got to enjoy a Super Bowl championship because of this guy. And there's a very high likelihood that you won't again for a long time to come. Like the previous poster said, as soon as a healthy Marshawn wasn't in the picture, the team barely made the playoffs.
Stop being ungrateful. It's not even your money.
Lynch sucked last year, and we got better when he stopped playing.
We would have been better off without him last year so Im not sure why you would say that.
Also, Lynch sucked in our Super Bowl victory. He helped us get there, but he didn't really help us win.
peachesenregalia":3v080nqr said:Racist.TheRealDTM":3v080nqr said:He's a thug, he was our thug but always a thug.
Jville":1pvoeul4 said:^^^ I concur.
We really need to get better at enjoying off season intrigue. After all, why should Peyton Manning and Bronco Fans corner the market!
sutz":pqzuffzo said:There's about 6 million reasons why they shouldn't release him. Treating guys nice is one thing, but bending over for them has to stop somewhere.
TwistedHusky":16aqnffu said:At almost every level, the team has consistently done what is best for the team.
This has meant cutting people that had earlier restructured their contracts to help the team. Given that is how a smart front office needs to work, but loyalty isn't really something a player expects from any good FO. They do what is best for the team and what is the best decision for the future.
Given that, I am not sure why people would be upset that players would do the same thing. Marshawn has to do what is best for himself. I think he has earned that right anyway, considering that the one year we did not run everything through Marshawn is the one year we almost missed the playoffs completely.
He carried this team to multiple SBs, so he gets the benefit of the doubt.
bjornanderson21":1oqk2nn1 said:Also, Lynch sucked in our Super Bowl victory. He helped us get there, but he didn't really help us win.
Spleenhawk2.0":2bvxb4wx said:I am not sure how this article can be true. Lynch's 2016 portion of the contract does not become fully guaranteed after next week. He has $5 million of signing bonus remaining - $2.5 million for 2016, and $2.5 million for 2017 - which is the amount the Seahawks could seek to have returned, or it becomes the cap hit. His 2016 base salary of $6.5 million is not guaranteed - so the Seahawks could cut him any time between now and June 1st and receive $6.5 million in extra cap space. If cut after June 1st, I believe that the Seahawks can elect to have the $5 million dead money spread over the next two seasons...but not certain about that part. The only way his entire salary would be guaranteed would be if some sort of mystery clause existed to move the base into a guarantee
Either way, the Seahawks have moved on. If Lynch changes his mind, I am 100% certain the Seahawks will cut him. They may cut him anyway to make certain that both parties are able to put this behind them.
TwistedHusky":1x75y6y4 said:If he wants to go bring some of his championship attitude and expertise to the Raiders, in order to life up his hometown - is that such a bad thing when we were not planning on using/keeping him anyway?
Popeyejones":gcgnc99z said:peachesenregalia":gcgnc99z said:Racist.TheRealDTM":gcgnc99z said:He's a thug, he was our thug but always a thug.
What's funny is that if you're from the East Bay you know that there's almost an entire generation of guys (now between the ages of say, 22-35ish) who look and sound exactly like Lynch does.
Some were thugs and by this point have done several bids and others are now doctors and lawyers.
A MUCH higher proportion of those guys than anyone outside of the East Bay would imagine are now working in various non-profit organizations (e.g. at-risk tutoring programs, gang prevention, social justice orgs, arts & media non-profits, community centers, etc.).
Those guys are really hard to typify. They were, like, a generation of black, weed smoking, social justice, artist, thug hippies.
More so than any group of people I've known before you really can't typify them by what they look and sound like. It's a bunch of guys who talk and dress the same but really come in all different types.
So....Lynch goes down with injury, followed by Rawls and the run game basically goes into the shitter..... Wilson opens up an industrial size drum of kick-ass, and salvaged the second half of the Season.TwistedHusky":2v6fguxy said:It might have been a team effort, but the reality is that the one year we were without his services, was the year we almost missed it. How did we do in the playoffs with him vs without him?
Our run game kept the defense rested, which meant less chances for 4th quarter collapses like last year.
And Lynch was surprisingly durable considering the punishment he took. Sure, he was beaten out by Rawls last year but Rawls ended up injured. So that durability ended up important.
Now truth be told, a lot of our problem last year stems from the loss of our secondary, but Lynch kept the defense rested, he kept the pressure off Wilson and he was easily just as important a piece in our SB run as Wilson. As evidenced by the reality that without him, even with Wilson even being BETTER - it wasn't enough.
Without Lynch this team does not each the SB once, much less twice. And for that, if he wants to go play for Oakland, a city he came from and that he is active in - not sure why we would begrudge him. Sure there is some signing bonus $ but he brought this city 1, almost 2 championships. Was it worth it?
If he wants to go bring some of his championship attitude and expertise to the Raiders, in order to life up his hometown - is that such a bad thing when we were not planning on using/keeping him anyway?