The Beast Quake upset win over Saints or a 6-10 record in 2010?
In 2011 Draft, 7 teams the year prior had a 6-10 record and picked from 7-13th.
Assuming we'd want to miss out on Jack Locker, and we wouldn't have been interested in Gabbert or Ponder, I would put the Seahawks from pick 11th to 14th. Rams would pick 14th but they would have made the playoffs at 8-8.
So from 11th to 14th Seahawks would have the choice of DL JJ Watt, DT Nick Fairley, or DE Robert Quinn. (or Christian Ponder).
To make it much more simple, lets just say the Seahawks took Houston's slot and took J.J. Watt with that pick.
In Round 2, Houston picked Brooks Reed, but if the Seahawks didn't like Brooks Reed they could have most likely found James Carpenter sitting there still but also TEs Kyle Rudolph and Lance Kendrick. But we'll just play along and still say they drafted Carpenter.
In reality land, Seahawks traded their 2nd round pick plus a 5th and a 7th for Lion's 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th round picks .
Seahawks drafted John Moffitt, Kris Durham, Richard Sherman at 154, and Pep Levingston with those picks.
In take back the clock fantasy land, without that trade Seahawks and taking over Houston's slot, hypothetically, the Seahawks draft could still look similar to 2011 but with Watt.
11th: J.J. Watt
42nd: James Carpenter
99th: K.J. Wright
138th: Richard Sherman
157th: Byron Maxwell
with the 178th pick and 214th pick the rest of the way.
During the 2011 season, No Moffit, maybe meant that Paul McQuistan would be starting at RG, so possibly when Gallery went down, and Carpenter struggling at RT, they just move him over to LG thus preventing Carpenter's injury in the process. And giving Giacomini a head-start at RT.
Even with Watt, who I would play at 3 Tech, btw, I would still re-sign Bryant after 2011. However, this team wouldn't have needed to spend the 20 million that they did over the last 3 years on Branch, Jones, Bennett, and McDaniel.
I think 2012 draft would fairly stay the same, but if Clemons/Watt is providing 25-30 sacks assuming Clemons would be better with Watt next to him. Then maybe Bruce Irvin isn't a necessity, so replace him with a trade down still but for OG David DeCastro. DeCastro never goes to Pittsburgh suffering that injury. With DeCastro lasting to the 24th pick, Seahawks 2011 Record could still be a little better and chances are we'd still could get him.
Seahawks 2013 draft most likely would include more LBers but I doubt the team would change much more than that.
Seahawks D-Line would be so bad ass. Seahawks O-line could be Okung, healthy in-shape Carpenter, Unger, healthy DeCastro, and Giacomini.
Its crazy looking back how much of difference it made by winning 2 games in 2010, STL, week 17, and NO, in the playoffs. But thinking about the possibilities of what could be, I'm still not sure if I would trade all of that for the Beast Quake run. It was an epic moment not only in Seahawks lore but in NFL history.
Beast Quake or J.J. Watt, what say you 12s?
