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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Seahawks sign Michael Bennett, one year $5 million. Weak market for pash rushers continues, Seahawks keep adding people somehow. Pete Carroll is trying to rebuild USC up there it seems.
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Helps when you're paying your starting QB $700k and can get guys like Browner and other 307th round picks coming through in the clutch, and playing for cheap (for now). Still have cap space, as they had $18m going into this (and have spent about $13m 2013 cap hit in the 3 guys signed, and lost Jason Jones and Leon Washington which was about $3m in cap gained), plus anything they carried over I think.
Though changed my tune on Flynn...with guys like Fitzpatrick and Cassel available, if Seattle can trade Flynn (Jets, looking at you), then they do it, and pick up a decent QB as backup...Flynn is a solid insurance policy, but I think similar insurance can be had for cheaper.
Clemons (assuming his brutal Fed Ex Field knee injury is healed), Avril, Bennett (he was a Seahawk until Mora cut him 4 years ago), and Irvin on the D-line, addressing the biggest need of the team last year; not getting to the QB, as good as the rest of the defence was the last couple of years. Get a LB to replace the aging (but more importantly, trouble with the law yet again) Leroy Hill at LB, and expectations are high in the press, almost too high for my liking for the team...
Back to Leon Washington cut, so I assume Harvin takes over the PR and KR. Leon landed today in NE. Solid player, solid guy, solid teammate. Limited role, but he won a couple games straight out in his time with SEA with KR or PR for TD (tied for the league record) as what ended up being the deciding margin (he got 2 in one game once as well). NE will give a good player.