Teams That Spend the Most...Seahawks Not One.

[SeaWolv]

Athletic Article:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577082/2025/09/12/nfl-salary-cap-cash-spending-ranking/

Seattle Seahawks #26 at 3.7% over the cap (#6 2015-2019).

The Seahawks are a good example of ownership wealth not necessarily correlating with spending cash over the cap. The team’s late owner, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and his heir, sister Jody Allen, certainly could afford to spend more than the Seahawks have spent recently.

 

[NoGain]

You'd expect/want the Hawks to be on the low end now as the roster is reconstructed for the MM era and some of the second contracts of players forthcoming. Just MO.

 

[soxhawk]

Yeah, if you're fighting to play in the Owl, you spend like Baltimore, Buffal, and GB did. If not, you wait.

 

[toffee]

Yeah, if you're fighting to play in the Owl, you spend like Baltimore, Buffal, and GB did. If not, you wait.

wait for what?

 

[soxhawk]

wait for what?

Till your team is good enough and have all the other pieces in place.

 

[CPHawk]

wait for what?

Maybe the GM is waiting to get fired and the owner is just wanting to make a profit before selling? She just sold the blazers. Otherwise, it makes no sense to wait. If you want to win, you spend money to make it happen.

 

[MORGULON]

Maybe the GM is waiting to get fired and the owner is just wanting to make a profit before selling? She just sold the blazers. Otherwise, it makes no sense to wait. If you want to win, you spend money to make it happen.

Like Jerry Jones? Dan Snyder ?

 

[toffee]

Maybe the GM is waiting to get fired and the owner is just wanting to make a profit before selling? She just sold the blazers. Otherwise, it makes no sense to wait. If you want to win, you spend money to make it happen.

I agree with you, hence the "wait for what".

 

[James in PA]

Jody putting things in place for the big sale?

 

[soxhawk]

We just spent the last decade and will spend again when the pieces are in place. We're just not there yet, apparently. Maybe once we find our QBOTF?

 

[Dolomight12]

Maybe the GM is waiting to get fired and the owner is just wanting to make a profit before selling? She just sold the blazers. Otherwise, it makes no sense to wait. If you want to win, you spend money to make it happen.

That sounds GREAT in theory. But it's exponentially more difficult to do EFFECTIVELY in practice. Championship roster construction is a science of balance, leveraging your youth/rookie contracts and nabbing the RIGHT "splash" players for your system, and a bunch of other details that have probably already been mentioned in the comments in here that I have yet to read.

 

[toffee]

We just spent the last decade and will spend again when the pieces are in place. We're just not there yet, apparently. Maybe once we find our QBOTF?

One word: Milroe

 

[soxhawk]

One word: Milroe

Would be sweet

 

[seabowl]

One word: Milroe

Needs to grow a lot more in order to be a starting quarterback in the NFL

 

[NoGain]

I was all for taking a 3rd/4th round shot on Milroe based upon his character and athletic abilities. But I had no illusions about the possibility of him never amounting to something resembling a franchise QB, let alone a competent starting QB. He doesn't know how to QB yet, at least not near the necessary level for an NFL QB. That was pretty clear in his final season at Bama. Milroe is and was a developmental shot from the very beginning, a shot worth taking to me. If the light bulb goes on, if he's got in him, great, we hit the lottery. If it doesn't, if it's not in him, so be it. We gave it a shot. No great tragedy if a 3rd round pick doesn't hit.

 

[toffee]

Needs to grow a lot more in order to be a starting quarterback in the NFL

Slow grow if he ain't playing.

 

[toffee]

If we don't win the second game tomorrow, which we are gonna win, we should start playing Milroe in game 3. In the next 4 games, let him start playing a quarter, then two, before he starts in our game 6 or 7.

Why game 3? It's an easy win against a messed-up team, and if we don't win tomorrow, we have about 6% chance to enter the playoffs if we trust historical stats.

 

[Trackhawk]

Slow grow if he ain't playing.

Many of the best QBs, including in the salary cap era, have sat for a year, honing their craft, before being exposed to NFL defenses, who can irreparably shatter a young QBs confidence.

Brady
Mahomes
Rodgers

We used to develop QBs instead of throwing them in the deep end to sink or swim.

Is it any wonder so many sink now?

Let Milroe develop, and don’t rush to get him on the field IMHO.