seattlefan75
Well-Known Member
Russ isn't getting any younger. How many more seasons do we need to sacrifice in order to plan for the long term?
Clowney is a disruptive force on the DL. His health issues are a concern certainly.
But a DL of Griffen, Ford, Reed, Green would be worse than our DL last year, which was one of the worst DLs in the NFL. Hoping for young guys to step up several levels is wishful thinking.
Our lines are anemic. We reshuffled our OL in hopes of it being better but having Russ mitigates how poor our OL is. Our DL, otoh, is just terrible and even worse given how unwilling Pete is to blitz. We can't play his style of defense with a mediocre DL.
If we want to win a Super Bowl again then JS/PC need to do something about the DL. Resigning Clowney is just one step. Resign Clowney and trading for another pass rusher is what is needed. I just don't see how we could possibly transform the DL by letting Clowney walk.
Well following our super bowl model then we shouldn't sign clowney to a lot of money at all our whole defense was made up of guys on 1-2 year deals surrounded by rookies. If we know for a fact our defensive line isn't good enough to go to a super bowl if clowney on the team when we paid him 8 million then how are we going to get to the super bowl paying him 21 million? We might as well let him go and find another route.
Russell Wilson isn't getting any younger but the reason why we are in this cap struggle is because of russ's contract so he needs to make up for the lack on the defense by putting up more numbers on offense with that shuffled offensive line we are paying almost 13 million on a LT 12 million on a WR and 11 million on a center used a 1st round pick on a RB, he should take that as good effort from management. Pretty much everything left this offseason in resources should be on the defense.