Tyler Lockett ‘Soft’? Seattle Seahawks WR Fires Back at Fans and Critics

The Seattle Seahawks are about to vault into the nationwide highlight towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with a Sunday morning (6:30 a.m. Seattle time) sport in Germany – and it’s a highlight that this group has earned.

In the meantime, Seahawks veteran receiver Tyler Lockett thinks he is earned one thing else from Seattle followers: Respect for his toughness.

“Lots of people may name you ‘mushy’ or no matter,” Lockett, reflecting on a Week 9 play towards the Cardinals when he got here up wanting a primary down. “However they don’t perceive the issues that we see while you’re achieved taking part in soccer. … Everyone desires you to place your physique on the road. For what? Your leisure? Your amusement, no matter? For us, we put our our bodies on the road each single day and so simply since you don’t make a primary down doesn’t imply regardless of the stuff is that individuals say.”

Lockett talked about “CTE” and “all these surgical procedures” and “how bodily it may be.” And naturally, he is proper about all that. He additionally mentioned that on the play in query – a third-and-16 throughout which Lockett caught a move after which prevented absorbing a giant hit from a pair of defenders – he thought he’d already gained sufficient for a primary down.

In any occasion, he mentioned, “This was like one of many first instances I fell wanting a (first down) and all people simply thinks I all the time fall quick. I simply assume, for me, folks don’t perceive how bodily the sport of soccer is …”

Lockett will win this argument as a result of he is lived it – and “enterprise selections” are generally part of the sport, too. Which may be very true when a man is 5-10 and 180 (as Lockett is) and has performed at a excessive degree for his eight-year NFL profession.

Is that this “placing Seahawks followers on blast” or just providing an vital perspective? Both manner, Lockett is a key purpose why the Seahawks are 6-3 and in first place within the NFC West as they taken their three-game win streak to Germany to oppose QB Tom Brady and the Bucs. … with Lockett being wholesome and obtainable a essential a part of any debate.

“This sport can also be about sturdiness and if you happen to’re not capable of go since you’re not wholesome, then it’s the subsequent man up,” he mentioned. “So I strive to not get too caught up in it … They’re identical to, ‘It is best to have achieved this, this and this.’ So that you’ve simply bought to take it with a grain of salt. However you’ll be able to’t please anyone, particularly the Web.”

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