Mad Dog":3daqj7dz said:
MontanaHawk05":3daqj7dz said:
It's a dumb tweet.
Richard Sherman played better than any of our corners this year.
Jimmy Graham and Paul Richardson had sixteen touchdowns last year. You can't argue that they did more to hurt the team than help it. Plus they got hurt this year, not bad.
No tight end this year outdid Luke Willson's production significantly.
We're 6-10 last year without Sheldon Richardson.
And yeah, he left out Michael Bennett to bolster his case.
10-6 this year is a testament to Pete's ability to churn, but it's not a knock on any of those players. Which is how that tweet reads. Pete paid for all those guys and they delivered - it just didn't result in a playoff run. Largely because of the kicker.
Don’t think you get the gist of the tweet. Those players left for larger contracts elsewhere and are not in the playoffs. They were replaced with cheaper options and the Seahawks made the playoffs. Not giving those players the money was a smart move clearly.
Bennett was traded so he doesn’t count and thus wasn’t mentioned.
Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I "don't get the gist of the tweet". :roll:
If you want to talk about Seattle wasting money, we should instead be talking about guys like Eddie Lacy, Blair Walsh, and Luke Joeckel. Expensive rentals all, and provided next to nothing for the investment. Something like what, $24m between them all? Walsh was, in fact, the difference between 9-7 and 12-4. It boggles the mind that next to zero annoyance is directed towards those guys.
As for the guys in the tweet...had they been paid and continued to produce at their 2017 level
with Chris Carson healthy, it's difficult to imagine we'd be any worse off this year in terms of W-L. Nobody really remembers the solid numbers or tape on how those guys produced in 2017, but it was there. Difference would be that we'd be closer to the cap this year, sure, but that isn't the implication of the tweet. The implication of the tweet is that you win by paying less for people, a tiresome superficial notion that has never really held up on examination. You win with wins.
There wasn't any resentment towards these guys until last December when the season tanked. Just goes to show you how fickle popular opinion is.
