I never felt better about a trade than when we traded for Deion Branch......I listened to folks like Tom Jackson boast for weeks on end, about how good his fellow Louisville alumni was, but discounted the system he played in.....I was wrong as was the Seahawks front office years ago.
It's now a new regime and more success and damn right I'm entitled, confident, have tons of swagger and when I wear my Seahawks gear at the gym or wherever I go, it's the simple stares, some smiles, an occasional "Go Hawks", etc....
The bottom line is we are one of the 3-4 best teams in the league and each of these 3-4 teams have bigger gaps that just cannot be fixed in my opinion....Seattle's can be fixed and has a ton of youth that will learn on the job, while winning games.
To show how good this front office is, they fix their mistakes....yes they could have drafted Bitonio a couple of years ago, but they didn't force the issue and rebounded with Glowinski as a 4th.....they also positioned themselves at RG/RT with Ifedi and didn't draft players like Kansas State's Cody Whitehair, who went in the 2nd round to the Bears.....he performed so well this pre-season, the Bears immediately signed ex Packer guard, Josh Sitton for 3 years and 21M, to replace a 2nd round pick, after 4 to 5 months and 3-4 preseason games....I'm guilty of believing the hype and was on board with Whitehair to replace Britt and re-signing Patrick Lewis.
We are on the way to greatness and no one and I truly mean no one wants to play Seattle, especially a Seattle that is not playing as the favorite for the first time in the last 3 years. Carolina, Green Bay and new flavor of the week, Arizona are the top 3 popular media darlings.....The media doesn't like our offensive line, despite the improvement, they still don't respect our WR's and I'm still hearing about Marshawn Lynch not being here, as if he played all 16 games last year and rushed for 1500 yards and 15 TD's.....
The overhaul after cutdown day, was enormously successful.....we shed practically all the dead weight, strengthened our coverage for special teams and have youthful size in case older DT's like Mc Daniel and Rubin slow down. By not relying on Jordan Hill, they showed a lot of skill, IMO......