You don't think they had a different approach this year in the draft? Sure seemed like they did. If your talking about F.O. moves the last 8 years or so I don't know how you could argue they haven't had really bad offseason moves, trades, drafts.
What I would say is that using hindsight to make any point is easy but disingenuous and often not effective or based in factual truth.
Every team has hits and misses. Every team has injuries. Every team has long-shot success and blue-chip failures.
Being freed of the former QB, Bobby, Brown and other leadership gave us the draft capital, future cap space, and a leadership void that is allowing for a positive transition focused upon a youth movement.
It seems obvious to me that such significant changes in core pieces of the team, coupled with the significant offensive and defensive scheme changes will lead to heavy learning, ugly mistakes, and ongoing confusion. I also believe with time and experience things are going to naturally improve.
The culture here is also benefitted by younger-minded players who are team focused more so than me focused. So the recent draft was obviously benefited by the positioning and numbers leading to more successes this year and ideally next.
The fact that certain positions QB, LB, CB, OL are positions that have been in an open competition have allowed for the cream to begin rising and in the case of LB, we seem to have sour milk at the moment.
What happens here, complaining about the Seahawks players, coaches, front office, draft is happening with every fanbase for every team - successful or not. More so after losses but also after wins for some.
People over emphasize that which has happened recently but also over exaggerate events of the past that they identify as important or significant that fit the narrative they believe.
Every day, we all comment on the information that we deem important and discount those things that counter our beliefs, some don't move from what they believe even when the facts counter those beliefs. This has always been the case, yet nowadays there are plenty of people to agree with every opinion regardless of the veracity.
Do I believe the approach in the draft was somewhat different in recent years? Yes, based upon what Pete Carroll and John Snyder stated about their draft approach in recent years being different.
I won't presume to know what the differences are specifically and those who claim to know are only guessing unless they were given a detailed brief outlining the draft and how they evaluate players from the source (Pete and John).
The team already has 2 wins after 5 games. For many, this was nearing the peak for the season. This year is working out to be competitive and fun and we have a great deal of draft capital to look forward to next spring.
