The Rams and 49ers are getting much better, after years of drudgery (and high draft picks). Don’t forget that fact.
Seattle is not getting better. It is as plain as day.
I lean towards being an optimist about most things in life. However, I just don’t see it here. What, we’ve lost 7-8 key players, it appears? Maybe more to come there (ET?). We’ve done nothing to improve the OL (outside of a new coach - which should be positive). Ifedi still gonna Ifedi. Our running game appears to be pinned on an unproven 7th round RB coming back from a gruesome leg injury, another RB who was largely cast aside (PC’s doghouse?) last year and another who can’t stay healthy. The WR room is in fact now mostly “pedestrian”, with the exception of Baldwin. Maybe Lockett too. We have no kicker and last year, couldn’t find anyone better than the Blair Walsh Project.
We may be in for a very difficult couple of years.
I am sure some of you will bash this outlook but in doing so, you’re simply signing up for the “trust PC and JS” mantra. That was fine for me, at one time. However, among other things, the fact that they ever thought the OL abomination of the last 2 years would work is beyond me. The fact that they let it continue from 2016 to 2017 is even more perplexing. It was kind of the joke of the NFL last year. It is a minor miracle Wilson wasn’t dismembered at some point.
For me, it’s time to reset expectations and watch a rebuild over the next 2-3 years. I hope I am proven wrong.