chris98251":2w6h469q said:
Seahawks have proven they won't be held hostage, they pay or cut bait, they Found Wilson, I am sure they feel they can find another, It surely is not their preference but the teams success comes before a player. They have rewarded almost every impact player with a great contract, I expect the same here, just not the chance to cripple us going forward.
This is well said, chris. I don't think anybody is suggesting we don't want RW. Nobody is arguing he isn't a key to our success. Nobody thinks the hawks would be just as fine or have just as good a chance to get into the playoffs and beyond with someone else.
The problem is that we cannot pay every great player on the team, and is his asking price worth the effects to the rest of the team?
This is a negotiation, for goodness sake! Enough with the "it's the FO's fault." Of course it is, but it's RW's agent's too, since, you know, it's a negotiation. Both sides are involved, and each has an agenda. In this case, RW's is about the bottom line money, and maybe winning in Seattle at some level. I'm positive PC/JS want to win in Seattle more than they care about RW's individual contract amount. If they feel they can care about both, then they'll offer him something he can accept and he'll sign. At this point, he hasn't so they must not have found that place both can agree on. Some posts here seem to imply a greater knowledge of our cap situation moving forward than JS has.
I'm pretty confident RW will sign here. I'm not hand-wringing because I have enough faith in the FO based on evidence of past work to think they'll figure out a middle ground. Either way, I've also come to believe they'll find ways to win, regardless of whether we keep our fantastic QB. I don't trust RW's agent to have that agenda at all.
