Seattle Seahawks: We should have seen this season coming
What We’re All Waiting To Find Out
With the Seattle Seahawks’ unexpected implosion, some believe wholesale changes are in store. Carroll says the team just needs to retool, and they will be right back to contender status. The answer is probably somewhere in between. The Seahawks have a playoff-level nucleus, but their philosophy needs to change.
Let’s get one thing out straightaway, Russell Wilson won’t be traded. Unless the Giants reverse course and decide to move on from Daniel Jones, there are no teams with both the desire and trade assets to add Wilson.
Russ is 33 years old and coming off his worst professional season. If we’re really being honest, RW3 has been falling off for almost two years. The market for him isn’t as robust as his leaked list of teams he would accept a deal to would imply.
The changes need to come from Carroll. Seattle needs to fix their secondary and figure out how not to take eight weeks to get their defense going. Defensive Coordinator Ken Norton Jr. may not be the guy to figure these things out, and the Seahawks should move on.
Offensively it may be time to be a little less boom or bust and adopt more of a Rams-style short passing game new OC Shane Waldron was supposed to bring to the team. If Seattle maintains the status quo, they will find themselves here again after the 2022 season. If nothing has changed by then, there’ll be no question about how the Seahawks got there.
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Season Finale W!!!! pic.twitter.com/HAifSzkT60
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) January 10, 2022
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