Loser: Seahawks miss out on prime target
After watching Russell Wilson get tossed around like a rag doll the past couple of seasons, it was abundantly clear the Seattle Seahawks’ first order of business this offseason was upgrading their offensive line.
And for a little while, it looked like a huge step in the right direction was going to be taken, as the aforementioned T.J. Lang was targeted and appeared to be headed to Seattle.
Pete Carroll on @710ESPNSeattle on T.J. Lang: "We thought we had him." Said team isn't done with OL, but not many starters available.
— Sheil Kapadia (@SheilKapadia) March 14, 2017
Missing on Lang was a pretty big deal, and the guy they landed instead isn’t going to inspire any confidence. Luke Joekel, who is officially a first-round bust at this point in his career, signed a one-year deal that won’t likely improve Seattle’s offense much, if at all.
On top of that, the Seahawks’ only other move so far in free agency was to bring in Eddie Lacy to improve their running game. There are two problems with this, despite the low-risk nature of the one-year deal they signed him to.
First, Lacy weighed as much as 267 pounds within the last week. That’s not good news, given his weight issues in the past. The second issue is that he’s been injury prone the past two years.
We shouldn’t expect much out of Lacy in 2017, and neither should the Seahawks, even if Pete Carroll does want Lacy to be “big.”
On a different note, what does it say about Adrian Peterson that Seattle chose Lacy over him?