For everyone asking why we'd trade DK, please don't forget that the Seahawks are rebuilding.
Let me say that again from the cheap seats, THE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS ARE REBUILDING THEIR ROSTER.
We are not one or two players away, we need several players on both sides of the ball plus 2 or 3 years to figure out if they're the right fit and integrate them into the system. The offensive line is this side of a disaster. We need a pass rush. We need a hard nosed corner to start opposite Spoon. And, oh yeah, we need a quarterback.
While I can clearly see what DK brings to the offense when he's on the field, I'd rather have a couple of picks to address the weak spots on the roster.
I don't think we're rebuilding at all.
Our defense was top 10 down the stretch -- in spite of being a new system and major personnel changes mid-season. And we finished a respectable 10th in sacks.
Our offense showed promise until Grubb made us so 1 dimensional. Now Grubb is gone and we have an OC that wants to play a ball-possession, ground and pound type offense that compliments our stingy defense.
Yes, our OL is average at best, but we have good young tackles and -- with the exception of Bradford -- a handful of athletic IOL that may thrive in the wide zone scheme. I believe the FO knows what they have in Oluwatimi, so if he's not what they want we can pick up a FA C like Dalman. Now we have quality at T-C-T and that will make our guard play better even before we talk about adding more talent.
As for needing a hard-nosed CB, Riq doesn't play as physical as Spoon, but he's made to cover the X receiver. Blessed with incredible speed he's sloppy and still needs to hone his craft, but even in a 'down' year he's still top 5 getting picks.
There's a thousand threads on Geno already, so all of this should be familiar: Geno is a decent QB and decent QBs cost $40M these days. When we can find another decent QB for less, I'll be just as happy as the geNOs to bid him adieu. But cutting him just for the sake of cutting him would gut the morale of this team, raise a red flag to any player considering Seattle in FA, and shift our QB market from a buyers to a sellers. In short, we still have a window where we can bide our time to level up our QB if the opportunity presents itself. Cutting Geno just closes that window and puts us into desperation mode. Saving the $30M for FA or whatever will not hide the fact that we don't have a starting QB anymore.