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I get the move, i just dont agree with it necassarily. I get that Pete knows what he is doing, but you cant always just say "hmm...well, they are both CB's, so ill just plug him in here!"
I fully expect that we will go after another late round CB this year. Simon will get this next year to prove he can play the position or be gone after next season.
I fully expect that we will go after another late round CB this year. Simon will get this next year to prove he can play the position or be gone after next season.
Jermaine Kearse gets second-round tender from Seahawks
Wide receiver Jermaine Kearse caught the pass that put the Seahawks in the Super Bowl and the team will either have him or a second-round pick to help them in an effort to make it back to the big game.
Field Yates of ESPN.com reports that Kearse has received a second-round tender from the Seahawks before becoming a restricted free agent. That sets him up to make $2.356 million next season unless another team makes him an offer that Seattle isn’t willing to match while also sending a second-round pick to the defending NFC champs.
Kearse’s overtime heroics in the NFC Championship game don’t make that a particularly likely development. The draft is thought to be a good one for wide receivers, which makes the draft pick compensation a lot to give up on top of a contract for a player with 63 catches in the last three seasons.
Even if Kearse is back, receiver is expected to be a spot where the Seahawks look to add help this offseason. There were too many moments last season when the team struggled to get receivers open and Paul Richardson is looking at an extended absence after tearing his ACL in January.
Jermaine Kearse gets second-round tender from Seahawks | ProFootballTalk
Wide receiver Jermaine Kearse caught the pass that put the Seahawks in the Super Bowl and the team will either have him or a second-round pick to help them in an effort to make it back to the big game.
Field Yates of ESPN.com reports that Kearse has received a second-round tender from the Seahawks before becoming a restricted free agent. That sets him up to make $2.356 million next season unless another team makes him an offer that Seattle isn’t willing to match while also sending a second-round pick to the defending NFC champs.
Kearse’s overtime heroics in the NFC Championship game don’t make that a particularly likely development. The draft is thought to be a good one for wide receivers, which makes the draft pick compensation a lot to give up on top of a contract for a player with 63 catches in the last three seasons.
Even if Kearse is back, receiver is expected to be a spot where the Seahawks look to add help this offseason. There were too many moments last season when the team struggled to get receivers open and Paul Richardson is looking at an extended absence after tearing his ACL in January.
Jermaine Kearse gets second-round tender from Seahawks | ProFootballTalk
Brandon Marshall going to the Jets effects seattle:
Jets will probably release Harvin now and Seattle will only get a 6th rounder.
"March 19 looms as a deadline. If Harvin is still on the roster at that date, the Jets will owe the Seahawks a fourth-round draft pick as opposed to a sixth-rounder if Harvin is released."
Jets will probably release Harvin now and Seattle will only get a 6th rounder.
That would be nice, however I would rather go after someone young in the draft that can fit in long term (27 aint old, but its peak). I know im a broken record here but Maxx Williams...he is the guy i like. I also like Nick O'Leary, but i dont know if he would be available to us. Very good blocker and receiver...old school TE, but a bit on the "small side" at 6'3" and under 240. But he makes plays, bottom line.
Marshawn Lynch agrees to three-year, $31 million deal | ProFootballTalk
Marshawn Lynch agrees to three-year, $31 million deal
Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has agreed to terms on a new contract that covers the next three years. And he’ll be paid at the high end of the running back market.
Lynch gets $12 million this year, in the form $7.5 million signing bonus and a $4.5 million fully-guaranteed base salary.
In 2016, Lynch (if he plays) will get a base salary of $9 million. In 2017 (if he plays), it’s a base salary of $7 million in 2017 along with a $3 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2017 league year.
If Lynch retires after 2015, he’d be responsible in theory for paying back $5 million of the signing bonus. But the Seahawks wouldn’t be required to pursue the money. If they know going in that he may walk after 2015 (and that probably was one of the subjects discussed at Friday’s sit-down regarding the contract), it would be a surprise if they seek repayment of the money.
Lynch was scheduled to make $7 million in 2015, the final year of a four-year contract. So, basically, he got another $5 million to return for one more year.
Marshawn Lynch agrees to three-year, $31 million deal
Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has agreed to terms on a new contract that covers the next three years. And he’ll be paid at the high end of the running back market.
Lynch gets $12 million this year, in the form $7.5 million signing bonus and a $4.5 million fully-guaranteed base salary.
In 2016, Lynch (if he plays) will get a base salary of $9 million. In 2017 (if he plays), it’s a base salary of $7 million in 2017 along with a $3 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2017 league year.
If Lynch retires after 2015, he’d be responsible in theory for paying back $5 million of the signing bonus. But the Seahawks wouldn’t be required to pursue the money. If they know going in that he may walk after 2015 (and that probably was one of the subjects discussed at Friday’s sit-down regarding the contract), it would be a surprise if they seek repayment of the money.
Lynch was scheduled to make $7 million in 2015, the final year of a four-year contract. So, basically, he got another $5 million to return for one more year.
Seattle Seahawks Rumors: Julius Thomas Aiming To Play For Pete Carroll
— If Dad Greg Gets His Way
The Seattle Seahawks will sign tight end Julius Thomas — if rumors sparked by the Denver Broncos free agent’s own dad prove accurate. Greg Thomas, who played for Pete Carroll in college way back in 1983, dropped some highly conspicuous hints about where he’d like to see his son end up on his Twitter account back in January. But now that the NFL free agency period is just days away, the sports media is finally noticing.
The Seahawks have a hole to fill at the tight end position, and Broncos-watchers say there’s no chance that Thomas returns to the team that drafted him in 2011, even though he played only one season in college at Portland State and was primarily a basketball player there.
A few weeks ago, Broncos blogger and online radio host Brandon Spano revealed that before the 2014/15 season began, as the Broncos were coming off their Super Bowl defeat against the Seahawks, Thomas scored an $8 million per year contract offer from the team.
Spano reported that team sources questioned Thomas’s desire to play football, saying the 26-year-old receiver saw the sport as a “business opportunity,” and that in the words of another Broncos player, “Julius is here to get his money and get out.”
That comment seemed to confirm the rumors around Denver for much of the season, saying that Thomas was “soft” and refused to play hurt.
And then, on February 17, Greg Thomas apparently took to the comments section of a Broncos blog — using the pseudonym “Lethylg,” the same handle used on his Twitter account — to defend his son’s apparently mercenary approach to the sport.
“Last I checked this was a business,” the poster believed to be Julius Thomas’s dad wrote. “If he would have destroyed his ankle ‘for the team’ Elway would have been dropped him this offseason with the quickness. Like a piece of rotten meat. Go get paid young man, go get paid. It’s only in America where people want to destroy another man sport unity because it doesn’t please them. BLACK OPPORTUNITIES MATTER.”
On January 30, two days before the Seahawks made a return trip to the Super Bowl only to lose a thriller to the New England Patriots, Greg Thomas posted this tweet.
Bob Highfill B @bob Highfill
@lethylg60 That is so awesome! You must be very proud of Julius and your buddy Coach Carroll.
Greg Thomas @lethylg60
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B @bob Highfill Extremely proud of both. Seahawks tried to trade Harvin for him. Pete could end up coaching father and son. ����
The tweet in which Greg Thomas flat-out says that his son will play for the same coach that he, Greg Thomas, played for came after at least two others praising Carroll — and this sharply-worded tweet making it clear that he was not impressed with the Broncos organization or their Hall of Fame quarterback.
Denver Post Broncos P @Post Broncos
MORE: John Fox would have preferred more authority with draft, roster; Move to running offense had also taken toll John Fox, Denver Broncos part ways after playoff loss to Colts - The Denver Post
Greg Thomas @lethylg60
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P @Post Broncos Don't blame Fox for Elway giving Peyton the reigns and making him uncoachable, unapproachable and bigger than the TEAM.
Greg Thomas in the January 30 tweet also lets slip that the Seahawks attempted to acquire Julius Thomas earlier in the 2014 season, which would seem to be hard evidence that Seattle has a strong interest in bringing Julius Thomas on board, unless of course Greg Thomas is just repeating rumors as well as starting them.
Seattle Seahawks Rumors: Julius Thomas Aiming To Play For Pete Carroll
— If Dad Greg Gets His Way
The Seattle Seahawks will sign tight end Julius Thomas — if rumors sparked by the Denver Broncos free agent’s own dad prove accurate. Greg Thomas, who played for Pete Carroll in college way back in 1983, dropped some highly conspicuous hints about where he’d like to see his son end up on his Twitter account back in January. But now that the NFL free agency period is just days away, the sports media is finally noticing.
The Seahawks have a hole to fill at the tight end position, and Broncos-watchers say there’s no chance that Thomas returns to the team that drafted him in 2011, even though he played only one season in college at Portland State and was primarily a basketball player there.
A few weeks ago, Broncos blogger and online radio host Brandon Spano revealed that before the 2014/15 season began, as the Broncos were coming off their Super Bowl defeat against the Seahawks, Thomas scored an $8 million per year contract offer from the team.
Spano reported that team sources questioned Thomas’s desire to play football, saying the 26-year-old receiver saw the sport as a “business opportunity,” and that in the words of another Broncos player, “Julius is here to get his money and get out.”
That comment seemed to confirm the rumors around Denver for much of the season, saying that Thomas was “soft” and refused to play hurt.
And then, on February 17, Greg Thomas apparently took to the comments section of a Broncos blog — using the pseudonym “Lethylg,” the same handle used on his Twitter account — to defend his son’s apparently mercenary approach to the sport.
“Last I checked this was a business,” the poster believed to be Julius Thomas’s dad wrote. “If he would have destroyed his ankle ‘for the team’ Elway would have been dropped him this offseason with the quickness. Like a piece of rotten meat. Go get paid young man, go get paid. It’s only in America where people want to destroy another man sport unity because it doesn’t please them. BLACK OPPORTUNITIES MATTER.”
On January 30, two days before the Seahawks made a return trip to the Super Bowl only to lose a thriller to the New England Patriots, Greg Thomas posted this tweet.
Bob Highfill B @bob Highfill
@lethylg60 That is so awesome! You must be very proud of Julius and your buddy Coach Carroll.
Greg Thomas @lethylg60
Follow
B @bob Highfill Extremely proud of both. Seahawks tried to trade Harvin for him. Pete could end up coaching father and son. ����
The tweet in which Greg Thomas flat-out says that his son will play for the same coach that he, Greg Thomas, played for came after at least two others praising Carroll — and this sharply-worded tweet making it clear that he was not impressed with the Broncos organization or their Hall of Fame quarterback.
Denver Post Broncos P @Post Broncos
MORE: John Fox would have preferred more authority with draft, roster; Move to running offense had also taken toll John Fox, Denver Broncos part ways after playoff loss to Colts - The Denver Post
Greg Thomas @lethylg60
Follow
P @Post Broncos Don't blame Fox for Elway giving Peyton the reigns and making him uncoachable, unapproachable and bigger than the TEAM.
Greg Thomas in the January 30 tweet also lets slip that the Seahawks attempted to acquire Julius Thomas earlier in the 2014 season, which would seem to be hard evidence that Seattle has a strong interest in bringing Julius Thomas on board, unless of course Greg Thomas is just repeating rumors as well as starting them.
Seattle Seahawks Rumors: Julius Thomas Aiming To Play For Pete Carroll
Wide receivers
Seyi Ajirotutu, San Diego Chargers
Miles Austin, Cleveland Browns
Jason Avant, Kansas City Chiefs
Kenny Britt, St. Louis Rams
Vincent Brown, Oakland Raiders
Dez Bryant, Dallas Cowboys
Randall Cobb, Green Bay Packers
Michael Crabtree, San Francisco 49ers
Josh Cribbs, Indianapolis Colts
Marcus Easley, Buffalo Bills
Derek Hagan, Tennessee Titans
Leonard Hankerson, Washington Redskins
Dwayne Harris, Dallas Cowboys
Darrius Heyward-Bey, Pittsburgh Steelers
Jerrel Jernigan, New York Giants
Brandon Lloyd, San Francisco 49ers
Jeremy Maclin, Philadelphia Eagles
Robert Meachem, New Orleans Saints
Denarius Moore, Oakland Raiders
Josh Morgan, Chicago Bears
Santana Moss, Washington Redskins
Hakeem Nicks, Indianapolis Colts
Kevin Ogletree, New York Giants
Kassim Osgood, San Francisco 49ers
Eddie Royal, San Diego Chargers
Dane Sanzenbacher, Cincinnati Bengals
Cecil Shorts, Jacksonville Jaguars
Brad Smith, Philadelphia Eagles
Torrey Smith, Baltimore Ravens
Brandon Tate, Cincinnati Bengals
Demaryius Thomas, Denver Broncos
Deonte Thompson, Buffalo Bills
Nate Washington, Tennessee Titans
Reggie Wayne, Indianapolis Colts
Wes Welker, Denver Broncos
Seyi Ajirotutu, San Diego Chargers
Miles Austin, Cleveland Browns
Jason Avant, Kansas City Chiefs
Kenny Britt, St. Louis Rams
Vincent Brown, Oakland Raiders
Dez Bryant, Dallas Cowboys
Randall Cobb, Green Bay Packers
Michael Crabtree, San Francisco 49ers
Josh Cribbs, Indianapolis Colts
Marcus Easley, Buffalo Bills
Derek Hagan, Tennessee Titans
Leonard Hankerson, Washington Redskins
Dwayne Harris, Dallas Cowboys
Darrius Heyward-Bey, Pittsburgh Steelers
Jerrel Jernigan, New York Giants
Brandon Lloyd, San Francisco 49ers
Jeremy Maclin, Philadelphia Eagles
Robert Meachem, New Orleans Saints
Denarius Moore, Oakland Raiders
Josh Morgan, Chicago Bears
Santana Moss, Washington Redskins
Hakeem Nicks, Indianapolis Colts
Kevin Ogletree, New York Giants
Kassim Osgood, San Francisco 49ers
Eddie Royal, San Diego Chargers
Dane Sanzenbacher, Cincinnati Bengals
Cecil Shorts, Jacksonville Jaguars
Brad Smith, Philadelphia Eagles
Torrey Smith, Baltimore Ravens
Brandon Tate, Cincinnati Bengals
Demaryius Thomas, Denver Broncos
Deonte Thompson, Buffalo Bills
Nate Washington, Tennessee Titans
Reggie Wayne, Indianapolis Colts
Wes Welker, Denver Broncos
I wouldn't mind it one bit if we somehow got Jeremy Maclin.
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