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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hot Blogger Mornings. I am Brian.

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Now, I have so many different ways I could take the show today.

Part of the reason I'm starting late today is I found myself going down the rabbit hole of different paths I could take with this show.

And the one that I think is probably on most of our minds is what's going on with the running back position?

Like, what's the deal there? Because as this show goes live right now at 9.46 am specific time on March 12th, a lot of running backs have left the market.

In fact, I can share my screen real quick and we can look at the list of running backs that are unfortunately no longer options for the Seahawks.

And I'll bring this up here.

We can look at it together.

Here we go.

So let's do this in full screen and we'll zoom in a little bit for all of you so it's a little bit bigger.

I think that's about the size that people like.

And you could see on the right, the running backs that have signed Ken Walker.

We all know no one love and is now in Kansas City. And by the way, I got a big kick out of the fact that can gets off the private jet in Kansas City to sign with the chiefs wearing a black and silver john madden t shirt.

I don't feel like he doesn't really didn't really know or maybe didn't put two and two together.

But to wear a raiders.

Like a raiders hero shirt to sign with an AFC West chiefs team was pretty funny at least in my book. But anyway, Ken Walker is on his way to Kansas City is already there.

All franchised by the jets Travis Etienne signed with a hometown, New Orleans Saints, JK Dobbins back with the Broncos, Japan, say Williams back with Cowboys, Kenneth Gainwell to the bucks.

Rico Dowdell to the Steelers Tyler Algier, my free agent crush to the Arizona Cardinals Chris Rodriguez, Jr.

Yesterday came on the market and off the market in like an hour went to the Jacksonville Jaguars to be reunited with Liam Cohen.

Keaton Mitchell, another one of my free agent crushes came on the market yesterday was was not tendered by the Ravens off the market today signs a multi year two year 11.25 million dollar deal with the chargers and that one's an interesting one because

the offensive coordinator there is Mike McDaniel everybody who loves Devon H and what he's done in Miami should pay attention to the fact that the guy who made him that kind of player in the NFL

chose Keaton Mitchell to come in and I like I've seen some people online like why are people so obsessed with Keaton Mitchell I'm like because he's a diamond in the rough and probably a really good value in the fact that a guy that has not had the most healthy NFL career or a long NFL career

he's out and gets a contract that is almost the same APY as Tyler Algier and Rico Dowdell should tell you how the NFL sees Keaton Mitchell so at least one team that was a bummer he's off the market I say a

little bit ago went to the lions off the market so that's a lot of names that are off the market we'll talk here in a second about well who does that leave who does that leave and and there's some names that

I'm going to name and you guys are going to be like wait gross no I don't want to talk about that like I don't like that option but we're at the point where we kind of got a

lot of names in the eye and I think this is just maybe the biggest open question for this Seahawks team considering the fact that the Super Bowl MVP arguably their most valuable offensive player for the last half of the season

and definitely the run through the playoffs left can walkers no longer here his replacements was going to be Zach Charbonet as an ACL injury don't know when he's going to be available so this is this is a spot that was overloaded with talent

and now is a big fat question mark so we're going to talk about that but sorry getting getting calls bothering me so what kind of go through the options and some of them are already on the team so we'll talk about that as well

I have put in some question marks to people I trust around the league about some players that we haven't talked as much about in detail and and I'll tell you I got why just reading like I was reading while I was talking from one of those people had responded back to me so yeah we will we will talk about some of those options

I will also just give you guys some updated news let's start there before we get into the topic of the day the news is first and foremost from a Seahawks perspective I can bring this back up we'll go to the team dashboard look at the Seahawks all right as of this morning the Seattle Seahawks have agreed to terms with Brady Russell he is returning to the Seahawks

did I not update this hold on let's let's check this out did I not update Brady Russell is back I did not the Seattle Seahawks two years I don't think we have the money yet so um yes Brady Russell special teams ace back up tight and back up full back he is back with this team for two years he was a restricted free agent that the team's back to the team

that the team did not tender and his tender would have been about three and a half million dollars so my guess and I talked to you guys about this yesterday with Delmar Robinson and I think he plays for the chargers or Delshon Phillips excuse me he signed a two year deal for seven and a half million that average three point seven five

he is also a like all pro special teams player I'm guessing Brady's deal is going to come in around this probably a little under wouldn't surprise me if it's two years six million six and a half something like that it could be more and the fact of the matter is report was that there were other teams interested but that Brady Russell wanted to come back to Seattle so um

good news there uh that you've got another key part of your team back in the fold well who does that leave you have got

Chas Sarat also a special teams guy Cody White receiver Brandon Peely nose tackle Derrick Young wide receiver

Shayne Lemieux who never played a snap for the Seahawks wasn't even on the roster was just on the

ready squad and the Seahawks did not the he went on IR so I wouldn't worry too much about Shayne Lemieux

availability but the rest of these guys did play snaps varying levels of roles for the team

and of these guys I really do expect Brandon Peely back um it would I think that would be the biggest concern

of if of the guys left if Brandon Peely goes elsewhere I think that you've got now a bigger hole at

nose tackles and I think you'd like to have although I do like some of the guys they've got on the roster

Derrick Young I would expect he's looking for opportunities elsewhere I think the wide receiver

room is pretty deep and I think he would love to really get a chance to to play at receiver

if there are other teams that are interested he might come back anyway um Cody White I really like

really blossomed as not only a receiver but a special teams player I'm sure he's looking for

opportunities to kind of get a chance to really break into the room and Sarat we'll just see what happens

there I think he was an underrated special teams player but you know I wouldn't I wouldn't like

assume that he's coming back I guess is the way I'd look at it with the guys left so as it stands

look at look at this list of guys that the Seahawks could have lost but kept that's that's a long list

Charles Crosse Rashid Shaheed A. Blukas Josh Job Drake Thomas Jake Bobo Chris stole the long snapper

Tio Cotta George Halani Josh Jones Brady Russell AJ Finley AJ Finley the safety if we didn't talk

about this yesterday he also resigned with the team could have been it was a should could have been

restricted free agent they didn't tender it they've lost Ken Walker Boy Mafe Kobe Bryant and

Tareek Wullen all right so when you look at the big picture here for the Seahawks how many

starters have they lost they lost Ken Walker and Kobe Bryant those are two guys I would consider

starters Tareek Wullen started some games but generally Josh Job had jumped him in the

um in the depth chart and they split reps most of the season boy Mafe I think is at best the

third edge rusher of four and in some ways the fourth of four good player all these guys are going

to be missed in varying degrees I've seen our good friend Griff Sturgeon fighting the fight about

how big of a deal is the Tareek Wullen left I love Griff I don't know as someone who defends

Rick Wullen I think I saw Griff set was almost like if the Broncos lost Patrick Sir Tan I don't know

if I go that far Griff I do think you're going to notice and it's going to be an issue to not have

Rick Wullen but um I don't think it's quite that extreme so uh that's kind of the the state of

what's happened uh relative to the Seahawks now there are some other bits of news that are worth

well one I would say I've talked to you a lot about Max Crosby this is not going to be

the Max Crosby show again I'm sure you guys are sick of that topic the whole NFL world

lost their shit last night when Max Crosby tweeted out you know he's back and you know football god

spoke and he's listening or whatever like then it was said that the Raiders have told teams that

Crosby's not available that they're not going to trade them I'm here to tell you and this is not

for my purposes this is my honest assessment Max Crosby's absolutely available what they're doing

right now is they are rebuilding his trade value there's no reason from their perspective to

rush into a trade right now they've already gone through free agency if unless there's a move that

they can't make by having Max Crosby with them why rush and I think they've made their first wave

of moves I don't think the Raiders feel like they've got an urgency the most likely outcome here

is that the Raiders if I was in their shoes I would play this all the way up to the draft even

draft day itself because that's the day that a team that's making a trade will know who's

available at their pick and they can decide actually the guy that we want and got picked so

I'm willing to trade this first rounder to the Raiders that maybe I wouldn't have

and it's also an opportunity for the Raiders to know exactly who's available at the pick that

they're going to receive if they don't do it by the draft then it starts to be like okay I'll start

to take them seriously that they're maybe thinking that they're going to keep him at least to the

deadline or something like that because obviously if you want first round picks and you want the

maximum trade value in draft capital kind of helps to have those picks before the draft or like

during the draft so that to me is the deadline essentially for when I think they're going to try

to build back up Max Crosby's value there were some rumors that the the bears and the bangles were

closing in on a deal for Crosby so we'll see we'll see but I will just say that's from my perspective

I'm not convinced I'm not convinced that Max Crosby's off the market permanently so that's

that's one piece there the other thing that's that I wanted to share that might be of interest to

you guys there's a great great tweet or an interesting tweet I think from Nick Cortee who does all

the compensatory picks formulas for over the cap and the interesting thing by the way before I

get off the Crosby thing Andrew Brandt has a tweet that I said back out was a Raiders quote we're

not trading Crosby translation quote offers have dried up so I think Andrew and I see at the same

all right so where is it all right so Nick Cortee totaled the picks currently for

2027 the 20 2027 draft not 2026 the 2027 and his his list has the Seahawks with the most picks

in the 2027 draft tied with the Eagles with 12 and that includes four comp picks so the Seahawks

as it stands I think I said yesterday that I thought the reek woolen compensatory pick would be a

sixth according to Nick he thinks it's a fifth so that would mean the Seahawks have a comp

four or boy a mafia three fifth round comp picks for Walker Walker and Kobe Bryant and

to reek woolen that's not nothing and as Jeff talked about before like you can trade those picks

this is supposed to be a really really good draft class next year and so my understanding I just

don't think the Seahawks think this is a very good draft class this year and I think their actions

are proving that and then I think they see real value in last year's draft class where they had

like 20 plus rookies whether on the roster or in their ready squad and I think they see value in

the 2027 draft so I think they are gaming the system a little bit about stocking up last year

and preparing to reload again next year not everyone's gonna like that not everyone's gonna

agree with it but I'm just telling you my interpretation of what's going on with their strategy

related to that there is a date that you should know might not be exciting to you but the first

Monday after the draft every year which this year is April 27th is when you can sign any player

without it affecting the comp pick formula that's like month and a half from now it's after the draft

so the Seahawks this gets back to the running back conversation it is not out of the realm of

possibilities that the Seahawks are gonna slow play this thing all the way until after the draft

let's talk about that possibility for a second if you're John Schneider

you have more than two but let's simplify it and say two approaches you could take to addressing

the running back position door number one take a player in free agency either sign your own or get

a player right away cross it off your list don't have to worry about it that is door number one

that door is not closed but it's pretty dang close to being shut right we'll talk about some

of the players available but pretty close door number two by the way door number one let's finish

door number one so door number one is you take a player in free agency you sign someone right away

and then you see who you can get in the draft to compliment and you call it a day all right that's

door number one door number two is you almost go the opposite or the inverse you flip it

and you say I'm gonna see who we get in the draft and then I'm going to go and comb the free

agency and trademark it after that and the benefit of that approach is that you know the draft

pick that you've added maybe you get a jadarian price maybe you get you know uh someone else

that you like Mike Washington junior right like whoever that player is or you don't and now you know

I've got to go address this spot the other benefit of door number two

is that other teams are going to have added running backs both through free agency and then through

the draft so that will create overloads on certain rosters at the running back position

and potentially make certain guys available that were not available before not available now

but might be available then and be available for lesser prices because you're certainly

not giving up a 2024 draft that's it 2024 2026 draft pick for a player because the drafts

already happened right so now you're into the comp pick world where it doesn't matter who you add

if you make a trade and you're in a situation now where you know you've got 12 2027 draft picks

you could start to trade some of those picks for players that might not have been options before

I have not I'll admit I've not combed through all the rosters for who the the ripple effects

who the butterfly effect could be of who's available there's there's one name we've talked about

I'll I'll get into in a second but that's just another strategy here and so for those of you and maybe

I'm among them who have like a little anxiety a little anxiousness about like you just had the

Super Bowl MVP and a really really good running back leave you've got another really really good

running back who's injured can we please have somebody to like latch onto and feel good about

that's a tough path you have to hold your water you have to hold your water you have to wait

for all of those things to happen so all those those two doors are still open and I'm not saying

here it's Thursday March 12th day four of free agency that the siox are aren't going to sign

anybody at the running back position between now and April 27th but it's at least a question

and I think it's something that we have to start at least considering as you look at what what the

plan might be for this position so with that kind of stage set where do we want to go I

one path here to consider is that the siox actually don't see this as a big position of need the

way other people do one scenario here that I think a lot of people including me are going to be

uncomfortable with if true is that they don't see this as a problem that they like the guys that

they've got on the roster already all right let's let's at least give ourselves a moment to explore

what that would look like who are the guys that are currently on the roster are available and what do

we think about those players I'm going to start with not the guy that most people would I'm going to

start with valus Jones and this is a really interesting player who I'm reading a little bit about

his time in Chicago from one of my connections there um yeah interesting interesting okay I

sorry I'm reading and talking um so valus Jones was a third round pick for the bears out of

Tennessee and the interesting thing there's a number of interesting things about valus Jones to be honest

valus Jones was pretty much exclusively a receiver in college

uh he played with Sam d'Arnold at USC so they've got history together I talked to valus about that

and then he transferred to US to Tennessee in 2020 but he had a total of 15 rushing attempts for

59 yards in college he had 120 receptions for 1,434 yards 800 of those yards came in his

senior year with Tennessee so implication there is this guy is kind of a receiver that has been

um converted to a running back and the kind of interesting path there is there's another player

that was considered an option for the sea ox rumored as a trade option which was David Montgomery

of the Detroit Lions he has since been traded to the Houston Texans but he used

to be primarily a receiver um and so that's another guy that um has kind of followed that path

and I'm looking through here and make sure I'm not misremembering um I could almost swear

David Montgomery was a receiver I thought he came in as a receiver um but but but I might be thinking

of somebody else I could have sworn he came in as a receiver um I must be thinking of somebody

else I'm only seeing running back listed for him so maybe I'm wrong uh anyway there have been

other players that have converted from receiver to running back and the thing with Bayla's Jones

is when he went to the Bears he was primarily like his first his rookie year he had nine

rushes for 103 yards which is pretty good that's 11 yards of carry he also had seven receptions

for 110 170 yards which is 15 yards reception he's an explosive player

but and he also is a returner so he he also somebody that was involved in the the return game

but word is on like if you ask is someone saying it is time on recovery that makes sense thank you

yes high Montgomery was the guy I'm thinking of um but if you uh ask people in Chicago about

valus Jones they don't have nice things to say and the word kind of out of there is that it wasn't

necessarily all his fault he was a high draft pick who was a little bit older and being that he

was a third-rounder um he just didn't have a lot of production or impact and he made some bad

mistakes where he dropped a ball he had five fumbles and then he kind of talked trash about Chicago

I guess this year um that he was still playing um and I think this was about the fact that he was

still playing for the Seahawks right and I don't think bearish fans really liked the fact that

he was on the practice squad and not really part of why the team was getting where they were

getting and so I think bearish fans were not not a huge fan of valus Jones and one thing I will

say and getting to know him a little bit is he is loud he is brash it's confidence I think nobody

I knew gotten to more arguments about shadow boxing in the locker room than valus Jones I joked

with him about that uh as we were clean they were cleaning out their lockers all that said

he looked electric in Atlanta when he got a couple touches end of the game garbage time take it

for what it's worth but I told you guys about this the other day um it's very very small sample

and in a very like garbage time uh point of the day but valus Jones had a 78% breakaway percentage

which was number one in the NFL among running backs uh last year um now again that's with four

rushing attempts so um but he had four carries for 32 yards eight yards of carry

I think there's some juice to him and the fact that he came up as a receiver

could be interesting so I'm not going to spend too much more time on valus Jones but I am

interested in him then you go to george halani who I'm kind of surprised how many people are

really down on george halani I I feel like george halani is a little bit of a hidden gem

and george halani last year you know he uh didn't have great numbers 22 carries 73 yards 3.3 yards

per carry uh had two catches for 15 yards you know he I thought he had some great moments

uh special teams wise but also as a runner making people miss and I think what people forget

about george halani is that he was the starter over ash gingente and I've talked to george about

that and he was you know ash gingente is a really close friend and you know he routes

forming all that stuff but george halani is a complete back he does everything well he's a good

runner insider out he's a good receiver he's a good blocker you could do a lot worse than george

halani in the backfield what he is not yet proven really is is can he be a breakaway player

and as we look I'm gonna I haven't actually looked at his college numbers I'm about to pull those

up now but I don't know like he was a he was a high yards per attempt guy in college he over five

yards per attempt in four of his five seasons the other season it was 4.8 so not bad um

the guy finds the end zone quite a bit trying to see if they've got his long runs

I'm not seeing those easily accessible that's okay so I think george halani is probably number one

on your depth chart that seems to make sense what's going on the other thing that I would just say

like Zach charbonne they might feel like he's going to be available sooner than people realize

that could be part of what's going on here and they might feel like they don't want to block him

um from the depth chart I don't I just I can't can't wrap my head quite around that like

ACL injury late in the year I don't think you can plan on that and I don't think they will

from there you go to a guy like cam makers cam makers was also brought in late last year and

the interesting thing with cam makers is I mean he's the vet of the crew in that regard and

he um he has another kind of interesting low low volume low sample size small sample size

thing to hang his hat on cam makers was fourth in the NFL in yards per contact after

yards after contact per attempt let's say that again yards after contact per attempt

he averaged 4.8 yards per contact after attempt for the sea oxlats you're only five rushes

so I'm not going to like try to tell you this is like you know hang your hat on it

but this is another guy that the team might feel like he has been a starting back in the NFL

that has happened he has had years where he's had you know 104 carries 188 carries he's played

in a Super Bowl as a running back 145 carries um he has never been a big yards after contact

thing for what before it's worth he's been like 2.9 2.8 2.3 I don't know if I'd really like put

too much in stock into that he is not really a breakaway runner um although his time in 2024

with Houston and Minnesota he did have a 36% breakaway percentage that's percentage of runs

that were longer than 15 yards so that's that's actually pretty good this other years you know

20% yet a 29% year in 2020 he is 27 years old he's not that old even though he's been in the leagues

since 2020 he's not that old this is a guy that they also might feel like

we can get by with George Halani and cam acres and valus Jones until Zach Charbonne's healthy

it's possible I know you don't like the answer but I'm just telling you it's possible

the other guys on their roster really um would be Jakartae Wright who I thought had a really

nice camp and a great um a great preseason until he got hurt and so we don't know exactly

where where he is and then um Kenny McIntosh who has the most loyal devoted following

amongst the ox fans for a guy that has had I mean I want to look at it here how many carries

has Kenny McIntosh had in his career this is a seventh round pick he had 31 attempts in 2024

for 172 yards 5.5 yards per carry that's good that's good um but it's also 31 rushing attempts in

his career and two serious injuries but he's a good player like he's an interesting player for sure

so if they feel good about that I just named all these guys and gave you reasons why each one of

them might be more interesting than the average fan would think and keep in mind

like the sea ox have seen John Schneider has seen Thomas Rawls be a really really good starting

running back as an undrafted free agent he's seen some of these guys Justin Forset and others

Alex Collins RIP but like he's seen some lower rounds or undrafted free agent guys be pretty damn

good as starter so that could be part of what's going through his mind but there's other possibilities

so that's kind of the in-house possibilities let's look at the external free agents that are left

and then we'll talk a little bit about who could be trade potential options but before I do that

I got some really crazy news yesterday news I never expected to hear in my lifetime

the book we did not care the book I wrote is a New York Times best seller what the heck it is so

wild to me number five on the New York Times best seller list for nonfiction I cannot believe I'm

saying that and honestly I just want to thank all of you so many of you told me that you bought the

book I'm so appreciative it is like I've been kind of just having a smile and about it since I

heard late yesterday and it is super a credit to all of you as passionate sea ox fans for

buying a book from you know a small independent like me and getting it on that list I'm telling you

that is not something that happens very often like it's just not and there's a lot of things I

was trying to do some I don't really know much about the New York Times best seller list but like

I did a little research to figure out like how do they come up with it and I mean it's it's crazy

I don't know I don't have the words I don't have the words for someone who's now an author a

New York Times best selling author I do not have the words to articulate how this has happened but

I'm really really appreciative of all of you I also this is embarrassing and unbranded but I've

been telling you where you can buy it hot blogger.com slash book easy to remember hot blogger.com slash book

well the publisher that takes you to the publisher site where you can buy it it hasn't been

allowing you to buy it for I don't know how long so I I found that out yesterday and I was like

guys like somehow we're a New York Times best seller we're not allowing people to buy the book

like can we turn that back on so it is now available again to buy at hot blogger.com slash book

if you were frustrated trying to buy it before so really really grateful appreciate all of you

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it's simply Seattle really really cool people uh all right let me get some super chats and then

I will talk about the guys that are left. I don't know if this is meant to be a joke and I don't mean

to laugh I'm not laughing at you but the the question here is any chance we can land Bijan Robinson

in a trade no no no chance uh I love the idea is probably my favorite player outside of the Seahawks

to watch play but no no way. Tizzo TD says uh on the PFF mock draft Seahawks draft needs don't

have edge anymore does PFF have no something we don't thoughts. I mean I don't know I don't know

I don't know what it means. I edges in need for this team I think that I really like Jared ivy

and Conor O'Toole I think the team does as well I think there's a chance that they could really

blossom next year and you could have this awesome cool young edge crew of Derek Hall and

um Jared ivy and Conor O'Toole and maybe a draft and other guys well I still think it makes sense

to extend Uchen and Uosu depending on what happens um over the next few weeks and let's just hope

to Marcus Lawrence doesn't retire so uh I don't know I don't know what PFF's thinking um we'll have

we'll have Trevor Sikamon at some point we'll talk to him about it and get his uh his perspective.

Karl lunchroom says two words to Cartier right we'll be vindicated yeah I do like to Cartier right um

I would not build an offseason plan for running back off of an undrafted rookie who's never

taken a snap in the NFL but I do like it. Scott dobson how much easier to choose door number two

when you have 12 picks next year to trade up a few spots if you need to. Well I want to make

clear if you choose door number two which again is waiting till the draft to try to address your

running back position seeing who you get seeing who other people get which I think is a viable strategy

you're not going to be able to use next year's draft picks to trade up in this year's draft

I mean you could. So that's probably what you're getting at Scott. I'm talking myself into it now

all right if you know you're going to have 12 picks then yes you could use some of next year's

draft picks to move up this year to make a selection and I know it's going to show up somewhere here

probably a super chat about it about what that means that they're going to draft love from Notre Dame

I'm just I'm going to be cold water on that and unless it happens like all the way up until it happens

I don't believe how many times is John Schneider ever traded up in the first round

let's take a quick look I don't think I have this somewhere

I'm going to try asking a different way

okay I'm going to see if I can figure this out really quick but I don't believe John Schneider has

ever traded up in the first round let alone gone from 32 to the top 10

the amount of draft capital you would have to commit to trade up

to do that and love is going to go in the top 10 you might go in the top five

yeah he's never traded up um he's traded up in the second round quite a bit

that could be a gigerian price thing that could be maybe a Mike Washington thing or someone else

that they like but I think love is not an option so yes it could be something that factors into

that good good good call out what did that do you think it made us look bad to free agent

running backs because we didn't pay K9 after winning Super Bowl MVP that's an interesting question

no I don't think it matters money talks playing for a Super Bowl winning team playing for a team

that's run oriented playing for a team that's got a good young offensive line

nah I don't think that would deter any free agent running back from coming here things that might

deter a free agent running back from coming here is Seattle like a lot of people don't want to live

here they don't want to come all the way to the northwest it's like it's like South Alaska is Matt

Houseback used to say and these guys are from the southeast or the east coast and it's a foreign

area to them so all they hear about is that it rains all the time and when you're a free agent

you get the most control over where you land Dave Jay says I'm still struggling with the decision

to not resign Kate Kenneth Walker given he is explosive tough yards ball security

and at the the celebration Jay and John Schneider stated that he wanted him back

moving on how about a one-year fire on Zamir White the Las Vegas line sucked I don't know if I

know Zamir White I'd have to look him up a little bit but I'll top my head I don't I don't know a

lot about him so I we can take a look it's Zeke YT says my issue particularly and a lot of what I

see on X is that we have like three running back threes and no real running back twos and I for one

I'm not very high on Charbonne's ceiling especially coming off an ACL injury I think that's a

reasonable way to look at it I think it's totally fair I think that's to me

George Halani is a is a fine running back to if Zach Charbonne was like your number one back and

Halani was your second back honestly I would not be that upset about I think Halani's got plenty to

offer in that role they're just like it's not much of a change of pace and so that's where

Availess Jones to me is interesting because he supplies a little juice that you don't get elsewhere

but yeah I I see what you're saying I have largely the same concerns but I have to at least

acknowledge that this could be the way the sea ox are seeing it that that the guys they have in

house are good enough they they they might know something we don't they certainly know things

that we don't be why it says went to visit my mom yesterday one of the first things she said to

me is you have to see this cool book on a Costco guess what was sitting on our coffee table man I

love that I love that that's so funny man thank you all right yeah it's been flying off the

shelves at Costco like it's been flying off the shelves I did get that much information from my

publisher so that's that's pretty cool all right so let's talk for a little bit about guys that

are still available and who has at least a little bit of my attention Rashad White we've talked

about a fair amount I'm not super enthusiastic about Rashad White but this is a guy that

has had a number of carries is at least a running back to and would create a floor for your team

and the running back room I don't think he is he's not a explosive runner

and I feel like that's something that you're missing right now is the explosiveness out of the back

field I don't think he solves that so he's an option he's been linked to Seattle the sea

ox could also be trying to slow play this because maybe the teams that need running backs haven't

done it like have already done it and don't need to add I'm gonna skip over a lot of guys that I

just don't think are interesting old not just just like not interesting like I'm not a Joe

Nixon or Najee Harris or Austin Eccler like Nick Chubb like nope not interested in those guys I mean

I guess we have to talk about Jerome Ford don't we I don't really want to let's do it so

Jerome Ford played for the Browns for four years and has started 18 games and has had some good

moments back in 2023 he carried 200 times for 813 yards and four touchdowns in 2024 he averaged

over five yards per carry and he's had a 50 yard run in his career 26 like he's had a couple

explosive runs um his success rates in 2024 was 47 percent which isn't terrible

and as a receiver I mean he's had a lot of receptions like he's been a pretty effective

pass catcher he had 26 receptions last year 37 year before that 44 the year before that

and in 2023 that year were a 44 receptions he had five receiving touchdowns to go with four

rushing touchdowns so he's also gotten in the end zone quite a bit at least back then he's only

26 years old and you know last year he just had 24 carries like he just so he's an option

I'm not super excited about him but he's an option and let me just do a quick

let me do a quick look back to the 2024 season on the PFF side and see like let's get a little bit

more information about Jerome Ford uh Jerome Ford okay so interestingly in 2024 he was the 18th

graded running back by PFF he was ahead of David Montgomery ahead of Zack Sharbinay

he had an 80.3 rushing grade which is good it's it's very good

and interestingly as well his yards after contact per attempt was three and a half yards which was

top 20 this is good um his breakaway rate 45 percent seven carries of more than 15 plus yards

that's also really good so I don't think you can

I like he's not the most exciting option there are sometimes that the like fantasy play fantasy

fans and Cleveland fans were pretty high on Jerome Ford but um you know I don't know like this

probably a guy that you could wait on till after the compic formula deadline in April 27th and

still probably sign another name that I think you've got to talk about is Brian Robinson Jr

this guy played for the 49ers last year he has had years for the commanders where um

he was their number one option I thought he was actually at times a more dangerous runner than

Christian McCaffrey last year for the rate for the for the 49ers Brian Flurry who is your new

offensive coordinator knows him was in rooms with him and you can guarantee the John Schneider if

they have any interest we'll talk to Brian Flurry about him the guy clearly fits into this scheme

as he just played for Kyle Shanahan so there's some logic there the challenge with um

Brian Robinson at least for me is

why like he's been pretty good why did the commanders really move on

and the 49ers had him for one season they're moving on

is there something about him as a fit personality wise that

might not be a fit in Seattle I don't know I do not know him I haven't heard anything

but that at least gives me a little bit of pause the other thing that gives me a little bit of

pause is his grade in PFF has gone down every year 82.5 is a rookie 75.3 second year 71.9 30 year 69.9

last year don't love that trend I see him as just a really physical runner I like his running style

he's aggressive um he is not really a breakaway threat not generally

so I don't know I think he's got to be someone that you consider again he's a floor razor I like him

like to me I like him as a runner better than I like Rashad White personally to me the question

is like personality does he fit that's my main hesitation there otherwise I think he's a fine option

then uh so here's the mirror white I will since someone asked about him I do not know

is the mirror white um let me look him up real quick

I will never pretend I know somebody there's the funniest thing that happened to Aaron Wilson

it's like my worst nightmare you guys are probably gonna get me on this at some point but

I won't say what the name was but someone made up a name of a college prospect

and said do you think this guy would be a good fit and it was a crude fake name uh think about you

know old prank call names um and he just pretends that he knew other guys like yeah I think that guy

would would be a good fit and it's going all over the the twitter so you could find it if you want

but um uh anyway I will try to never pretend that I know something that I don't

as a mirror white's 26 years old he's been in a league for four years he has

never carried the ball more than a hundred times in the NFL never averaged over 4.3 yards per

carry has been under three yards per carry the last two years why are we interested in

smear white I don't know this isn't getting me particularly I think the the comment was that he

was the raider's offensive line was really bad but under three yards a carry is under three yards a

carry man uh not not super interested there's some other names that have some interest to me here

but not a lot there's this name here though and I've got a I got a couple of feelers whoa what just

happened uh I've got a couple of feelers out about Amari DiMarcato now this is this is a this is

kind of a mystery to me I will admit because if you look at Amari DiMarcato's numbers

they're kind of crazy good like they're crazy good um and I'll tell you what I mean by that so

so he has been behind the depth chart of you know James Conner and Arizona and then Trey Benson

who they drafted he played three years there he's six is five nine two hundred fifteen pounds

there's not like he seems small but he's actually reasonably big and he has never carried the ball

he carried the ball 58 times as a rookie but his yards per attempt

five yards per attempt as a rookie nine point three yards per attempt second year

and seven point one yards per attempt last year his career averages six to

and a half yards per attempt that's ridiculous that's part of what I was interested

with Keaton Mitchell and I think if I'm remembering right he might have been the guy that dropped

the the ball before he went into the end zone and that kind of thing whatever like that's that

I don't care about that that's not a reason to to not have a guy on your team um he's also like

he's primarily been used as a receiver out of the backfield he's been pretty good there as

well and if you look at some of the pff numbers I mean he led the NFL last year in yards

after contact per attempt 5.5 yards after contact per attempt that's ridiculously good

it's low numbers it's 44 carries so I'm not going to like go crazy but he also had a

57% breakaway percentage 50% per 7% of his carries were longer than 15 yards that's an insane number

so I um I'm at least curious about him already DeMarcato I'm not saying like I'm not as sure

about him as I am about Keaton Mitchell because I've seen Keaton Mitchell in games do some crazy

things and the like he is he was behind a guy like Derek Henry and some other options so I kind

of get that but I mean I'm already DeMarcato they have this thing called elusive the elusive rating on

pff which looks it like mistakels forced whether you're a receiver or a runner and I'm already

DeMarcato had an 87.2 elusive rating that was higher than Ken Walker's I mean Ken Walker was 83.5

which is very very very good Zach Charbonne was 80.4 which is also very good

Jamira Gibbs was 80.1 to give you some idea like

he had a pretty damn good elusive rating he reminds me a little bit of Jalen Warren for the

Steelers and so I'm curious about him I'm not gonna tell you he's the next great thing but I am

curious about him and we've talked about Sean Tucker who was tendered by the Bucks so you can

make an offer to him and you don't have to give up any draft capital to get him but

the Bucks have the opportunity to match it so that's the that's the catch there and the Bucks can

at any time rescind that offer they could sign him so Sean Tucker may not be an option even if

I would like him to be so that's a look at kind of that's a look at who still is available on the

free agent market. Looking through here sorry because I want him on the other

someone asked how old is Marty Marcato he is 27 27 just turned 27 in January.

Looking through chat because when I'm on that other page I don't see it.

I see people saying like give me Mike Washington Jr. from Arkansas and the draft.

I get it but like you cannot go into a draft where there's like one or two guys that you're

hoping to get at a position that you don't have a starter at that is a plan with fire.

So yeah I just that is that is what gets you to like push a guy way up your draft board for

need and that's where a lot of mistakes have happened for the Seahawks in the past. So

I yes it would be great if you can get Mike Washington or you can get Jadarian Price or something

like that but I just don't think you can count on it. All right let me just check see if there's

anything else before I get back into this. I'm going to talk a little bit about some trade options

but I'm not going to go deep here. Got a super chat from Henry Smith says hi Mr.

blogger hello what I'm most worried about is not giving first time OC the weapons he deserves

like Clint hand think we need another safety cornerback edge running back. I mean not giving him

the weapons he's got the offensive player of the year like chase ends pretty good. Tory Horton's

pretty good Rashid Shaheed's pretty good AJ Barnard's good Elijah Royo's good he's got a lot of

weapons and yes I would love to have a running back weapon that's what we're talking about but

to imply that the Seahawks were the third highest scoring team in the NFL who have lost

one starter are somehow now not talented I disagree with that strongly.

Yeah appreciate the super chat though thank you for that. All right so let me bring this back up

for a second because there's another way to look at this which is to look at it and say which of

the teams that have added running backs and you can look at the chiefs the jets the Saints

the Broncos the Cowboys the Bucks the Steelers the Cardinals the Jags the Chargers the Lions

and say like do they have backs on their roster that might be interesting and the one

that I've brought up before that makes the most sense to me is the Saints having adding Travis

at TN they've got Alvin Camera and it just makes it makes sense to me that he's going to be available

and he's older he's like in his 30s was not as productive last year

but I'd be fine with Alvin Camera as a stopgap for one year a guy that would be very motivated

to go and win a Super Bowl for the first time and play for a winning team for

really the first time at least in a long time and he's not that far removed from being a really

productive runner like 2024 rush for 950 yards at six TDs on the ground also adds

I do I have his I'll bring him up here to do to do Alvin Camera

yeah he is 30 years old and how many receiving touchdowns did he have

yeah yeah couples he had eight touchdowns in 2024 and I think he's a good player I don't think he is

the player he was but you know I would not hate this I think you're talking about very low trade

compensation to get a player like him like a six-thrown pick or something like that and I think

he's worth it to do something like that and that would give you an opportunity to have a veteran

in the room and then see if the rookies see if the other guys beat him out and if they do so be it

like you won't have invested that much but I think he's an option as somebody to keep an eye on

let me look there is another way to look there's a cap casualty thing

that's they do on that they do on over the cap let me try to pull this up real quick over the cap

cap casualty

um so let me take a look at this if you haven't already given the show a like now would be a great

time to do that so this was published January 8th by Nick Corti so there's the guys that are

going to be added to this list but I'm going to look specifically at the running back position

and he has got Deandre Swift as a potential for the Bears Josh Jacobs for the Packers I don't think

that's that doesn't seem realistic I mean I'd love to add Josh Jacobs that would be that would

rise to the top of the list for me um Tony Pollard I don't think so it's so much it's people keep

saying that they think Tajay Spears is going to be available I don't see why he would be

they list Alvin Camera as a likely availability Aaron Jones was just uh had his deal restructured so

he's not going anywhere I think Devin Singletary had his deal reworked James Conner had his deal

reworked Joe Nixon's been cut that's the list that they've got for cap casualty but I think this

these kind of lists will be updated again um soon but I uh that's probably a different show to be

honest like we got to get a little further in two things but trade for a guy is another option

that she could show up so this has been a tedious maybe process through how this could work and

I'll just recap for you like this can be door number one a lot of the options are gone if you're

going to sign a guy in free agency a lot pretty much all the best options are gone Rashad White's

still there for me doesn't get me super excited but at least as a guy you can say yep we're comfortable

that we have a floor of how how the running back room is going to look door number two is you

actually don't really address this position until the draft and after the draft and you look to see

if you get anybody and you look to see if other teams get guys that allow them to make players on

their current roster available via trade and then you either sign guys that are still available that

don't count against the compic formula after April 27th or you make trades that's an option as well

it is looking more and more like the see ox might be thinking door number two

but who knows like this could change at any time even during this show it could have changed I'm

looking oh look at this Catherine Terrell Saints Kellen Moore said he expects

camaraderie back he says we'd like to go through that process certainly and so we feel obviously

we know Alan means a lot to us again we're three days into this thing we sign Travis and we'll

go through that process that does not sound that committed to be honest yeah so that's where we are

we'll find out as things go appreciate everybody taking some time to hang with me today and

I see there's two super chats let me get to those before we head out of here James Cooper says

thoughts on cam Jordan 10 and a half sacks last year I know he's older but he could help provide

past rush if D-Law retires as a cheap option if he's willing personally I am way more interested

in Von Miller I think cam Jordan I think really slowed down last year and yes he had the nice sacked

total but when I was watching him he just wasn't the same player he had been in the past so at least

for me if you're gonna go old past rusher I would prefer Von Miller but I wouldn't rule it out the

guys an amazing competitor and certainly we very very motivated if he came to Seattle trade Jones would

you trade all four picks this year to move up to get love oh my god guys I don't know how many times

I'm gonna have to answer this one no no the running back position is not important enough to trade all

draft picks no and it's not gonna happen even if I think so or you think so like

John Schneider does not trade up in the first round he's never ever done it

I there's like the the amount of draft I don't know honestly I don't think all four picks

would be enough to trade up from 32 to the top 10 so people keep bringing this up but it's a

pipe dream and if it if it turns out to happen you guys have all these clips of me telling you

it's not and you can have fun with me about that but give it up give up the dream my well you know

what no I will never tell someone to give up a dream dream if you if you choose I am highly highly

skeptical that will happen all right folks that will do it's for this edition of hot blog

warnings hope you have a great rest your thirst and take care