Buc had the advantage of having a long run of early draft picks prior to Brady signing with the Bucs, which gave them both talented players through the draft and cap room. The perfect storm for Brady IMO.
Also to add onto my point last off-season the Seahawks had like what close to 50 mil in cap? How’d they spend that? Pretty poorly imo. Also even if you aren’t picking top tier in every draft there are still good players to be selected later on. Seahawks have not been very good at that.
Seahawks had 50 million because of a slew of expiring one year contracts which left a lot of openings to fill at a time when salaries are sky rocketing even for mediocre players. In reality 50 million was a meager budget to fill the holes and actual try to improve.
My point is, Russell’s contract isn’t what is holding this team back, poor drafting and poor FA signings is.
Poor drafts and cheap free agents go hand in hand with poor draft positions and tight caps that playoff caliber teams end up with. Which is why teams like the Falcons made it to the SB then crashed, Eagles made it to the SB and are now shit, Panthers made it to the SB and went to hell, Broncos won the SB and now are also ran. The Seahawks have actual stayed competitive and a playoff team for the most part and still are and that means they had to do more right decisions then wrong decisions. Fans want their team in the SB every year and complain when that doesn't happen and disregard that the team has performed above average despite the handicaps given to successful teams by the league.
Yes and a large portion of that is because we are getting some of the best QB play in the league. A lot of people like to say Russell’s contract is what is holding this team back, when in large part the reason why this team has stayed so competitive is because of RW
Not the sole reason but certainly a part. Especially if they keep forking out top $
This was going to be my next point. Seattle has struggled finding top FAs. They've swung and missed on a handful lately.
Great minds think alike. Yet his contract combined with others is a big reason. Those extra couple mil here and there are sometimes what separates getting a quality 2nd tier or two player.
Yea but even if they did have an extra few mil to get those guys, they’ve shown of recent they aren’t good at getting the right guy. Besides like Shell?
A nice restructure would be great but for whatever reason Russ won't do it.
Problem is the FO picks guys they think can fit the system instead of getting the better player and letting him learn the system. If that makes any sense.
They don’t need Russ’s approval to restructure, the FO can do it whenever they want.
In theory yes but not a smart move to piss off your franchise QB
Yea I’m sure Russ would be very pissed to see all that money become guaranteed
