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For more articles like this, and analysis on all Seattle sports, check out North and South of Royal Brougham With a new regime in the Seattle Seahawks' front office and an unclear power divide between new general manager John Schneider and Coach Pete Carroll, for the first time in over a decade, the Seahawks' draft strategy is a mystery. Carroll’s influence on his drafts in New York and New England was reportedly ...

For More articles like this one, and for other analysis on Seattle sports check out North and South of Royal Brougham With NFL salary slotting looming, this year’s draft should be the equivalent to the NBA’s 1984 draft.   1. St. Louis: Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma Unless negotiations break down, the Rams will draft Sam Bradford. Bradford had an amazing Pro Day, and his added weight appears to have the Rams sold on ...

Public perception of the Charlie Whitehurst trade has been exaggeratedly negative, and most of the reason for it is baseless. Seattle Seahawks acquired Whitehurst for a 2011 third-round pick, and swapped second-rounders with the Chargers to acquire Whitehurst, then they signed him to a two-year, $10 million extension. All that, and Whitehurst has never thrown a pass in the pros. Independently, any of those things are potentially damning to any fan, pundit, or ...

The Seahawks are in the market for a disgruntled receiver, with a first round pick as the expected bounty. Where have we heard this before? When the Seahawks, and then General Manager Tim Ruskell, traded for Deion Branch in 2006, it was a move that foreshadowed the philosophy that has generated todayÆs mediocrity. Branch, then a Patriot, wasnÆt known for massive production or elite athletic ability. Rather, Branch had produced heavily in ...

The entire NFC West is shopping for quarterbacks, at least in some capacity, and the future of the division likely rests simply on who shops best. For the past two seasons, two extremely unsuccessful seasons for the Seahawks, the quarterback position, and its handling, has become a lightning rod of sorts in Seattle. Criticism and praise have, at least in some cases, nearly surpassed hyperbole, to a point where it seems like ...

The NFL combine often times represents a turning point for many teamÆs player evaluation. While it is rarely a make or break weekend, as teams watch hours of game tape to provide the bulk of their evaluation material, the combine is an equalized athletic process. It is quite simply a few hundred of the top college athletes all performing in the same environment. But often times too much is made of numbers. ...

Now that Mike Holmgren is all-but-officially the man in charge of the Cleveland Browns and has rejected the Seahawks' offer to be a member of their front office, any analysis of his merits for the position have become moot. But the team still has a vacancy up top. Tom Heckert,áa long-time member of the Philadelphia Eagles' staff, may be a decent candidate to take over that vacancy, though he doesnÆt seem to ...