Incompetent Seattle media or

Are the Seahawks talking to no one???

Two days into FA (the negotiation/tampering stage) and not one single player has been identified as a player the team wants to sign or has had discussions with. Is the FO that inscrutable, unable to be read, or is the collective Seattle investigative sports reporting just that bad at doing their jobs? I suppose it's possibe the team isn't talking to anyone but I doubt it. Is the FO really that secretive?

I keep I refreshing numerous sites looking for any scrap of news but alas the Seattle area media has bupkus.

I honestly believe that they're not involved in any serious discussions right now (but maybe I'm just dense).

Schneider typically waits for the smoke to clear in free agency.
He doesn't go after high priced players.
Let's just be patient

The agents are the ones who leak team interest, true or not, in order to drive up the perceived competition for their clients. I'm sure they are as capable of calling the Seattle media as they are anybody else.

It will be moves of a minor nature only. No big splash, hopefully a strong draft.

Jerhawk":dwuk6ylq said:

Schneider typically waits for the smoke to clear in free agency.
He doesn't go after high priced players.
Let's just be patient

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It's that strategy that got us Webb and Sowell last season. Look how far that got us.

This is not the free agent season to sit on your hands playing money ball. There is no cost in losing comp picks for the 2018 draft. So he needs to make a real play for some quality players that can make a difference this season. Overpay some if needed. Restructure some current contracts to free up extra cap room, if needed. Make a serious play to make it to and win the Super Bowl this season.

If not, we aren't going to even sniff a Super Bowl this next season.

Seattle's media is a pretty tight ship. There's not a lot that gets out unless Pete and John want it to.

kf3339":1otq5u5g said:

Jerhawk":1otq5u5g said:

Schneider typically waits for the smoke to clear in free agency.
He doesn't go after high priced players.
Let's just be patient

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It's that strategy that got us Webb and Sowell last season. Look how far that got us.

This is not the free agent season to sit on your hands playing money ball. There is no cost in losing comp picks for the 2018 draft. So he needs to make a real play for some quality players that can make a difference this season. Overpay some if needed. Restructure some current contracts to free up extra cap room, if needed. Make a serious play to make it to and win the Super Bowl this season.

If not, we aren't going to even sniff a Super Bowl this next season.

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Well, thank goodness you're not the Seahawks GM then. I'd prefer the team not spend carelessly in free agency and build through the draft.
Look at the 2013 free agency. Schneider waited, then pounced on Avril and Bennett after the first wave passed and their value decreased.

Think about it. The only waves of FA news you're hearing about right now are the also-ran teams like the Niners, Jaguars and Lions.
Schneider and our front office know what they're doing and they do it right.

I don't know, the Pats just traded draft pick for a TE. All in all the closed off media approach works I suppose, but the media here seems to have no clue.

I don't disagree that our FO has done an excellent job, save last season's OLine. Maybe the team is in fact slow playing FA, but they have to be talking to some available guys including some of our own.

I also know that relatively the team doesn't have deep pockets for FA, but the media has zero clue where the FO is looking except for some speculative ideas. Maybe they aren't digging much, or enough?

Strange, but I seem to recall that almost every time they went for a "splashy" FA/trade, it bombed.

We don't have the cash to outbid most of the other teams in the league. Need to be wiser this year, not big risk takers.

If you are expecting the Hawks to make a big or early signing then you haven't been paying attention to the Seahawks during the Schneider era.

The national media rumor guys are on the stories more often than local media. If they aren't dropping rumors then see the paragraph above.

If one of the free agents were to visit you'd know about it. If the Hawks were talking to a player agent you'd hear about it. You are being unfair to the local media.

Jerhawk":2vmpzrrb said:

kf3339":2vmpzrrb said:

Jerhawk":2vmpzrrb said:

Schneider typically waits for the smoke to clear in free agency.
He doesn't go after high priced players.
Let's just be patient

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It's that strategy that got us Webb and Sowell last season. Look how far that got us.

This is not the free agent season to sit on your hands playing money ball. There is no cost in losing comp picks for the 2018 draft. So he needs to make a real play for some quality players that can make a difference this season. Overpay some if needed. Restructure some current contracts to free up extra cap room, if needed. Make a serious play to make it to and win the Super Bowl this season.

If not, we aren't going to even sniff a Super Bowl this next season.

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Well, thank goodness you're not the Seahawks GM then. I'd prefer the team not spend carelessly in free agency and build through the draft.
Look at the 2013 free agency. Schneider waited, then pounced on Avril and Bennett after the first wave passed and their value decreased.

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So you don't care about getting back to and winning the Super Bowl again. Got it.


While they are trying to draft their way back to a real contender status, this team is getting old. We have at most two years with many of our best D players and that's it. No one said spend carelessly in FA, but that doesn't mean only looking thru the garbage bins to fill out your team weaknesses. That has been their approach the last two years.

They usually wait till the second and or third wave and pick up guys who thought they were worth more then they are, then it's prove it deals and a chance to win.

Siouxhawk":1r1dj4ku said:

Think about it. The only waves of FA news you're hearing about right now are the also-ran teams like the Niners, Jaguars and Lions.
Schneider and our front office know what they're doing and they do it right.

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No, no, NO!! JC should be breaking the bank for players like Garcon...LMAO, 9ers!! :lol: :lol:

FA as a whole is quiet this year, lots more money and no player wants to be the 1st to sign a contract and than someone else gets way more.

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We do this every year on .net at around this time since Pete and John arrived.

Threads like this feel somehow comforting and familiar, don't they?

sutz":u6gcnlu1 said:

Strange, but I seem to recall that almost every time they went for a "splashy" FA/trade, it bombed.

We don't have the cash to outbid most of the other teams in the league. Need to be wiser this year, not big risk takers.

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Sidney Rice, Zach Miller, Cliff Avril, and Michael Bennett were all huge free agency signings made during the Schneider and Pete era. All of those players were the #1 rated free agent at their position the year the Seahawks signed them....with Avril and Bennett being #1 and #2 in the same free agency class.

I wouldn't say any of those splash free agent signings bombed. Sidney and Zach were instrumental in the 2012 season, which laid the groundwork for our 13 Super Bowl Season. Michael Bennett and Cliff need no explanation. They're currently top players at their position in the league.

What we usually bomb at was trading away our first round pick for Percy Harvin and Jimmy Graham. Percy, because he's a nutcase. And Graham, because our OC is incompetent and doesn't know how to utilize one of the greatest offensive weapons in the game.

We talk to more players and agents than anyone. Guys are way overpriced right now, but guys aren't going to get signed to a bargain deal without the Hawks being involved.