Team isn't strong enough at WR to balance the offense....if we are fair about it, 37-50 is what Brady's line was.....with 2 INT's....not a lot of help with Avril, Mebane, Lane and Jordan Hill injury eventually came back to bite us and leaving Simon on a smaller quicker elusive WR like Edelman is ripe for the picking.
Draft and find a real WR, sign Maxwell and draft a top CB and find a legitimate option to trade for at WR.....Schneider passed on offering a high pick for a Vincent Jackson type of player, who makes way too much money, but realistically, no one and I mean no one watched the 1st 20 minutes of this game with a good feeling on how we did offensively....we essentially played 2 decent quarters of football and if not for a miracle catch, we would have been hard pressed to get to the redzone.
The playcall was horrific, but realistically, it was really the defense and injuries that piled up on the DL and with Lane that opened the door.....Simon for all his hype and size, isn't a good enough player at this level and figure on this last point.
IF you are Russell Wilson and you have limited offensive weapons and the team is built around defense and running the football, you probably can shave off 5M a year off the salary he would have captured if we won going away....the improvement of the roster is inevitable, the prime of the team is here and Seattle will get back....teams that don't get back are aging and lack the defense to get the roster built around a great QB.....Seattle and Wilson will let us know if this is about money or about rings....Wilson doesn't need 20M a year and you cannot get elite WR's in via trade or FA....
Norwood and PRichardson are either non factors or injured and neither cannot be counted on for anything significant next year.....Kearse as a FA and your choice of Walters as a punt returner.......Lockette as a hybrid special teams guy and OR thinking you can fast track Matthews into a starting WR.....You can make a run at Randall Cobb of the Packers and kill two birds with one stone....weaken the Packers and strengthen the Seahawks.....OR you find and come up with a legitimate trade for a size and playmaking WR.....
I don't think you can roll the dice and draft another WR that is a high pick, because you would be obligated to play that player and keep him on the roster....I think it's going to be via trade....
Sign Wagner, Maxwell, Wilson on a discount and reload......if you are looking for mutliple championships over an extended period of time, this is the formula needed.....may not look like it tonight, but there isn't a better roster or team built to get back and win more titles and that is the case regardless of tonights result.
