I'm reminded of the used car salesmen trying to convince me how $5000 down and $5000 on delivery was a much better deal than $10000 cash!
It could be, depending on their level of hubris. You know PC will be out to show he can Belichick his way through a season without his Tom Brady. Maybe Pete does a total 180 on us and decides to see if Drew Lock can be a legit starter with a guy like DK, and he lets him force it to him 10 times a game. It would be a bit bizarre to do that the season you don't have the elite QB, but again the hubris...
I don't blame either. The NFL is set up to make it difficult to remain near the top, in that regard the Seahawks have beat the odds. However it seemed like that wasn't sustainable going forward. Just not enough assets and limited means to obtain additional assets.
It's not used car salesman stuff, just simple math. $37M with Russell Wilson vs $26M without. Again, this isn't new cap space phenomena. After the trade, they have $11M more cap space than they did before. It would cost them MORE in cap space to have RW on the team for '22.
I hope that doesn't happen.
Unless we have good confidence that things will be resolved in his favor and/or the compensation is like a '23 7th rounder.
Or maybe because they have a good organization. Think Steelers, Packers Patriots and Seahawks.
Yeah, the whole thing is a longshot...but even on Watson's current contract, I wouldn't say you un-do everything you did with the RW trade because we would still have all that additional draft capital (assuming you don't have to use it to get Watson). I don't see Houston with tons of leverage here. Are they really gonna pay him $40M vs the cap this year to either play or not? Seems like trading him off post 1-June would be a good move for them, even if they don't get a lot in return. As you say, he's a PR headache right now and an expensive one (for Houston) at that. Another team out there could make the trade and re-work the deal.
There have been plenty of really good QBs that ended up on organizations that were not that great so never had the success in the playoffs. QBs get to much credit for success and to much blame for failure. I'm going to be optimist about the Seahawks future and truely feel excited about the possibilities.
The goal is to win the SB, agreed. Here is the list of SB winners since our victory in SB48:
