Coach Pete Carroll and General Manager John Schneider are the architects of Seattle’s football operation. Although Carroll officially has player-personnel control, he defers to Schneider, one of the league’s savviest talent evaluators, in acquiring talent. Good move.
Schneider, who runs the team’s draft, has performed spectacularly in selecting players. Just consider some of the Seahawks’ picks in the 2010 and ’11 drafts: safeties Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas and cornerback Richard Sherman. Sherman, Thomas and Chancellor are stars and the foundation of the Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” secondary.
Thomas was the 14th overall pick in 2010. He was considered a can’t-miss prospect. But Sherman and Chancellor were fifth-round picks. Starting cornerback Byron Maxwell was a sixth-round pick.
Often, Schneider and his staff have found low-round draft gems. With a homegrown secondary, the Seahawks used free agency and trades — they acquired the game-changing Harvin from the Minnesota Vikings — to address other roster concerns. In the salary-cap era, that’s the effective way to roll.
Eventually, players who perform can leave in free agency. Schneider, though, also has made sound decisions in rewarding the Seahawks’ cornerstone players such as Sherman. Bottom line, Schneider is really good at his job.
He came up the old-school way, starting out as a low-rung scout and climbing to the top. And for Redskins fans, here’s what should sting: Schneider used to work for the team. In 2001, he was Washington’s vice president of player personnel, helping then-coach Marty Schottenheimer attempt to rebuild the team. They were fired after only one season.
I think we had 22 new players, 13 rookies, and reduced the first $100 M payroll to just over $50 M while going 8-8 with Tony Banks at QB.
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Coach Pete Carroll and General Manager John Schneider are the architects of Seattle’s football operation. Although Carroll officially has player-personnel control, he defers to Schneider, one of the league’s savviest talent evaluators, in acquiring talent. Good move.
Schneider, who runs the team’s draft, has performed spectacularly in selecting players. Just consider some of the Seahawks’ picks in the 2010 and ’11 drafts: safeties Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas and cornerback Richard Sherman. Sherman, Thomas and Chancellor are stars and the foundation of the Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” secondary.
Thomas was the 14th overall pick in 2010. He was considered a can’t-miss prospect. But Sherman and Chancellor were fifth-round picks. Starting cornerback Byron Maxwell was a sixth-round pick.
Often, Schneider and his staff have found low-round draft gems. With a homegrown secondary, the Seahawks used free agency and trades — they acquired the game-changing Harvin from the Minnesota Vikings — to address other roster concerns. In the salary-cap era, that’s the effective way to roll.
Eventually, players who perform can leave in free agency. Schneider, though, also has made sound decisions in rewarding the Seahawks’ cornerstone players such as Sherman. Bottom line, Schneider is really good at his job.
He came up the old-school way, starting out as a low-rung scout and climbing to the top. And for Redskins fans, here’s what should sting: Schneider used to work for the team. In 2001, he was Washington’s vice president of player personnel, helping then-coach Marty Schottenheimer attempt to rebuild the team. They were fired after only one season.
I think we had 22 new players, 13 rookies, and reduced the first $100 M payroll to just over $50 M while going 8-8 with Tony Banks at QB.
But we just had to have Spurrier. Stupidest move the Danny ever made.
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Coach Pete Carroll and General Manager John Schneider are the architects of Seattle’s football operation. Although Carroll officially has player-personnel control, he defers to Schneider, one of the league’s savviest talent evaluators, in acquiring talent. Good move.
Schneider, who runs the team’s draft, has performed spectacularly in selecting players. Just consider some of the Seahawks’ picks in the 2010 and ’11 drafts: safeties Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas and cornerback Richard Sherman. Sherman, Thomas and Chancellor are stars and the foundation of the Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” secondary.
Thomas was the 14th overall pick in 2010. He was considered a can’t-miss prospect. But Sherman and Chancellor were fifth-round picks. Starting cornerback Byron Maxwell was a sixth-round pick.
Often, Schneider and his staff have found low-round draft gems. With a homegrown secondary, the Seahawks used free agency and trades — they acquired the game-changing Harvin from the Minnesota Vikings — to address other roster concerns. In the salary-cap era, that’s the effective way to roll.
Eventually, players who perform can leave in free agency. Schneider, though, also has made sound decisions in rewarding the Seahawks’ cornerstone players such as Sherman. Bottom line, Schneider is really good at his job.
He came up the old-school way, starting out as a low-rung scout and climbing to the top. And for Redskins fans, here’s what should sting: Schneider used to work for the team. In 2001, he was Washington’s vice president of player personnel, helping then-coach Marty Schottenheimer attempt to rebuild the team. They were fired after only one season.
I think we had 22 new players, 13 rookies, and reduced the first $100 M payroll to just over $50 M while going 8-8 with Tony Banks at QB.
But we just had to have Spurrier. Stupidest move the Danny ever made.
I think hiring (and keeping) Cerrrato may even trump the Spurrier move......
I'll never forget the Spurrier interview when he stated --- with total sincerity and equal disbelief --- that NFL teams had different gameplans in the preseason vs. the regular season....
In Spurrier's defense, Danny boy was our GM at the time. Danny was the one that championed the drafting and playing of Ramsey his rookie year when he got pummled.
