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Hasselbeck: Why it feels like the Seahawks are ‘in a really good spot’
It appears to be an excellent time to be a member of the Seattle Seahawks.
They’re coming off a playoff look that just about nobody noticed coming earlier than the 2022 season, personal two picks within the high 20 of subsequent month’s NFL Draft and 10 alternatives general, and have made a couple of splashy strikes in free company to enhance their protection particularly.
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The nice vibes prolong to different sides of the franchise, too, as former Seahawks Professional Bowl quarterback Matt Hasselbeck shared Monday on Seattle Sports activities’ Brock and Salk. Hasselbeck, who’s now an ESPN NFL analyst, has been on the league’s annual conferences this week in Phoenix and had a glowing report on the Hawks.
“, I’ve seen (Seahawks coach) Pete Carroll down right here on the conferences, I’ve seen a bunch of the Seattle folks right here,” he mentioned. “It simply seems like they’re in a very great spot. They’ve an actual clear, sturdy imaginative and prescient of what they’re attempting to do, how they’re attempting to do it.”
Hasselbeck defined that the best way the Seahawks are working might assist them keep away from points like that they had a 12 months in the past once they launched star linebacker Bobby Wagner, who was disenchanted that he didn’t discover the information out first from the group. One signal of Seattle’s improved operations is that issues have been patched up with Wagner, who returned to the staff on a reported one-year contract Saturday after spending final season with the Los Angeles Rams.
“When you will have that clear imaginative and prescient of what you’re going to do, then you may talk it clearly,” Hasselbeck mentioned, “and I feel in all probability the lesson of the final time round (with Wagner) is issues weren’t communicated clearly, and that’s a lesson typically you simply bought to study the arduous means and then you definately develop from it.”
Are the Seahawks settled at QB?
The place Hasselbeck mentioned Seattle’s “clear” imaginative and prescient is most evident is at quarterback, the place the Hawks have re-signed each Professional Bowl starter Geno Smith and his backup, Drew Lock, this offseason. The chance to choose a QB early within the draft stays obtainable to the Seahawks, although, and so they very properly could do this as Carroll and common supervisor John Schneider have been seen at a number of professional days for QB prospects.
What does Hasselbeck make of the entire scenario?
“I’d say no, however I’d additionally say you by no means know,” he answered when requested if he thinks the Seahawks will draft a QB. “Why else would they be doing such due diligence on these guys? I don’t actually perceive the reasoning aside from that.”
Even when he’s uncertain himself, Hasselbeck is assured that Carroll and Schneider have a powerful plan in place for the place.
“I do know this – that Pete Carroll and John Schneider completely imagine of their system and what they’re doing. They imagine in Geno, (and) I imagine they imagine in Drew. So if I needed to guess, I say no, they’re not going after a quarterback (within the draft) as a result of they really feel so assured in Geno, however not simply Geno. I feel if you happen to have a look at Drew Lock, what’s he, like 26 years outdated? I imply, he’s primarily the identical age as a number of these quarterbacks which are popping out within the draft now, which is loopy to consider. However I feel they really feel like whether or not it’s Geno or Drew, they’ve bought one thing there. I feel they actually, really imagine that, and so my guess can be that they’re going to search out different gamers within the draft that might fill different holes that they’ve.”
Hearken to Hasselbeck’s full dialog on Brock and Salk within the podcast beneath.
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