Seattle Seahawks

As a venue to vent, the Seattle Seahawks are terrible again.  After last year's embarrassing and injury riddled they went out and got some new parts by trying to bolster the defense, giving Hasselbeck and new target, and drafting a stud LB.  With all the new personnel, coaching staff, and aggressive attitude there was hope, but it is looking like this season is going to be no different than last.  They are injury-riddled AGAIN and no one can figure out why this is happening.  With Seneca Wallace in there they have no chance offensively, so you lean on the D, but they are playing uninspired and injured.  Looks to be another long year.

The other thing I am finding odd is how the team is plain awful on the road no matter who is coaching.  Makes me wonder if there is something deeply rooting within the culture of the team that hopefully goes away as guys under the Holmgren regime retire or move on.  I don't understand how you can play with fire, passion, and inspiration at home and then play purely crappy as though they are just running through the motions, biding time until they get to go home.  Does not make sense.

If this is a complete disaster of a season they will get a high draft pick plus Denver's first rounder to help try to shore up some holes from injuries and age.  They definitely will need to find Walter Jones' replacement because Jones is done.  The other areas that will need attention are RB, QB, and secondary.  I believe you can get a very good RB in the 2nd or 3rd round, so QB may be on the docket for that other first-round pick. Let the QB learn under Hass for one season, then let Hass walk the next.  The good thing is this draft class should be very rich in talent and deep with the looming NFL labor issues and potential for a 2011 rookie slotting system.

This is definitely early to think like this, but I have seen this all too often and the team just starts to go through the motions as the losses pile up.  Especially when you lose like you did today against the Colts.  Go Hawks! Let's hope you can get this all figured out before it is well too late.