Note draft Seattle Seahawks 2019 NFL on the process, not the results

With my time machine in the store after multiple unsuccessful attempts to reverse the end of the Super Bowl XLIX, I am unable to rank in advance the career of the 11 men selected this week by the Seattle Seahawks.

What is a little less impossible is to look at some of the goals the Seattle front office could have had in the 2019 NFL draft. There is no way to know if they have chosen the good players. But we can say, in a way, if they put themselves in a position to do it.

The notes for six processes (not all completely serious) follow.

Process Objective 1: acquire a lode of mother peaks in a weak position

Grade: A

Yeah, participating in the repechage with four picks on Monday morning and then five picks on Thursday left John Schneider in a difficult situation. The Seahawks know what they prefer: to have more choices in order to play the percentages. Like it or not, it's their plan, and unlike some front offices, everyone is on the same page.

Can you imagine that Schneider only makes five selections in a single draft? I mean, realistically? Seattle was chosen less than nine times only once under this position, while they took eight guys in 2015.

Skip two first and three mid-rounders to four choices in the top 88 more seven other choices while trade in the second round and further, add a seventh to catch the college leader by receiving TDs: this is the best process one could have hoped for outside the Seahawks, and they have given the expected results.

Process Goal # 2: Leverage a strong class in DE / EDGE to replace lost production

Grade: C

It's not a D because, as the Seahawks continued to move up a gear, one thing became obvious: they will not rely exclusively on the backstop to compensate. lose Frank Clark.

They have about $ 26 million of capped space, they have been largely associated with the free agent Ziggy Ansah, and they will also test the virgin waters.

The problem, of course, is twofold: it was thought that the 2019 class had an exceptional depth in the passes, and there is no guarantee of free will. It is a bit of a challenge for Schneider & Co. to replace Frank Clark's presence in markets where the team has incomplete control. The results could still materialize, but the process leaves something to be desired, just because of the uncertainty.

Process Goal 3: Refilling Recipients

Grade: A

We did not know that Goal 3 of the process was so serious until the draft started. We had heard the rumors of Doug Baldwin's uncertain future, and had speculated that Seattle would have a hard time attracting independent players, as Pete Carroll's idea of ​​an offensive balance was halving. Well, Baldwin's situation seems to have thrown the Seahawks into the overdrive.

When you take three different positions in the same project, this is the most obvious indication that you have identified an urgent, immediate or medium-term need. The Seahawks decided that they needed receivers and those they chose:

• represent one of the most vertical threats of the entire project – enter D.K. Metcalf and his 21.9 yards per receipt
• scored 13 touchdowns last year and an average of 1,000 yards as a member of the upper class – that would be Gary Jennings
• led college football with 16 receptions from TD – John Ursua of Hawaii.

No fan wants to contemplate the end of the Doug Baldwin era in Seattle. Schneider and Carroll were forced to do so and they responded. They took three times more WR than RB.

The best is to be able to rely on local receivers, that is to say that thanks to Russell Wilson inked during the 2023 season, their development will be totally linked to its continued presence. There will be no "this guy can understand RW after spending the last five years in Green Bay", no "he's going to hate this here with all we're running compared to Detroit".

Process Goal # 4: Introduce in the program two new uncompromising defensive backs, now that the Boom Legion is gone.

Grade: A-

Marquse Blair and Ugo Amadi are exactly the kind of guy who would have matched Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor. They are hitter, punisher, bad guy on the field.

Seattle has indeed spent significant capital to make room for New legion Birth of Boom. Blair is the highest secondary choice since, finally, since Thomas. Amadi moved to 132nd place, well ahead of the other original members of LOB.

A-less here instead of a full A because it is not easy to locate each man. But probably, Carroll will know it. He knows a thing or two about DBs.

Process Objective 2 + 3 + 4: Respond to immediate needs

Grade: A

Sometimes I'm a little talkative. Let's get right to the point.

I guess Alistair speaks for a lot of people. Of course, the Seahawks did things their way, which meant assigning curious values ​​to prospects and passing on those that seemed to be perfectly suited. That's what they do.

But when you badly need receivers, defensive backs and linebackers –

– Wait Seattle does not need LB, it's crazy, look how good it is Bobby Wagner and K.J. Wright There is always Michael Kendricks. Have you forgotten Kendricks? oh, wait, these guys are almost 30 years old and / or are under federal indictment, agree, agree, continue –

– and you come out with seven of them combined, in a rough draft where you had five choices at the start, you answered a few fucking needs. It seems like all projects do not have to be dominated by the tactics of the best players.

Process Goal 6: Make an incursion into the Pac-12.

Grade: Nice work

The Pacific 12 conference does not get the national respect that other leagues do. Just or not. And in fact, the Seahawks have not done much in the past. I have 15 Pac-12 records for Seattle in the last nine years, so 1.5 per year on average. A maximum of three, in their first draft in 2010.

But this year, four of their eleven selections are part of the "local" conference. It was not possible to call Seahawks lobsters scouts. Well now, you can do it in two ways. What, did you think we would have gone through this very rough draft article without a terrible joke?

Report card

Volume creation: A

Pass Rush Replacement: C

Capture sensors: A

Baby Boomer Education: A-

Global needs management: A

Elective (sponsorship seminar Pac 12): Pass

GPA: 3.54