"If the Patriots had targeted QBs in the 1st round in back-to-back years only for other teams to select them with top 10 picks then Brady might very well have reacted differently." -- fist of all, wilson is not, nor will ever be near the level of greatness of brady- and i hate having to say that. secondly, i find it odd that players would even need catered to at such an extent, like a qb flipping out over their team looking at drafting other qbs? oh wait, wilson ACTUALLY did flip the f*ck out. and cried about it. the fragility! lol. and that was part of pete's problem, pete catered to wilson and was afraid to challenge wilson. wilson threw out the gameplan every season post 2016. and i don't think john schneider was afraid to make a trade or draft his replacement. i can argue that it was schneider that offered wilson to the brown's for the #1 pick in the 2017 draft.
" Trading into the top 9 from where the Seahawks were positioned would have cost a lot of Draft capital and/or quality players." -- agreed! however, not drafting another talented qb to be our qb1 or to atleast challenge wilson has also gotten us to the geno/lock predicament we are currently in.
"Both Mahomes and Allen were projects coming into the NFL." -- mahomes was picked #10 and allen picked #18 of their respective drafts. so, i'd say "projects" is a reach. if that's the case then all draft qbs are projects, especially outside the 1st-2nd rounds. nobody is polished coming into the league, peyton manning possibly being the outlier. seahawks targeted those 2 players for a reason... they stand out with immense physical tools and college production (look at mahomes college stats, mindblowing). it's safe to say seahawks did their homework. they're the same ones that drafted wilson, after all.
"I don't think it's fair to absolve the team for doing that and then criticise a player for acting in his own best interests." -- i hardly absolve pete carroll and his wrong doings, check out some of my other posts, not sure what you're referring to lol. and maybe it's not "fair" to "criticize" but consider the criticism more of an evaluation of how the seahawks got to this point. newsflash, wilson isn't the selfless saint he portrays to be. he's all about his own interests. he's also in decline. look at these other wilson threads to gather some intel
"with his replacement already on the roster and his being unhappy other teams may have viewed it as a buyer's market" -- pure speculation, i can't see how drafting a young mahomes or allen or whoever automatically lessens the value of wilson
"Both Mahomes and Allen were projects coming into the NFL. Neither hit the ground running. Neither may have become elite QBs in Seattle." -- that's cool, probably untrue, but it's not the point regardless. point is to be proactive and keep looking for the next guy. again, re-read what i posted: