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Germany Travel Plans, Awards Candidates & More

Germany Travel Plans, Awards Candidates & More


@CFR624 asks, “Which of these awards do you see as most likely for the Seahawks to win: Coach of the Year (Pete Carroll), Executive of the Year (John Schneider), Offensive Rookie of the Year (Kenneth Walker III), Defensive Rookie of the Year (Tariq Woolen), Comeback Player of the Year (Geno Smith), MVP (Smith) or Mascot of the Year (Blitz)?”

A: First off, is that last one even a real award? Taking the bird out of the equation for a moment, I can’t help but marvel at the fact that it’s tough to answer that question because so many of those feel like very real possibilities.

Carroll and Schneider should have both won Coach and Executive of the Year at some point, especially early in their tenures as they built the Seahawks into one of the NFL’s best franchises, so maybe they get some long-overdue recognition this year? It’s hard to say who is more deserving, because you can make a great case for both. Carroll has, over the course of his tenure here, built an incredibly unique winning culture, and while that’s something that is often hard to quantify, it is showing up in big way with this team. He also believed in Geno Smith when a lot of coaches wouldn’t have, helping set the table for Smith’s incredible 2022 campaign, and Carroll also wasn’t afraid to feature rookies in starting roles, nor was he too set in his ways to empower Clint Hurtt, Sean Desai and company to make significant changes to the defense, which after some early-season struggles has been one of the best units in the NFL for the past month.

Schneider, meanwhile, oversaw a draft class that has already produced six starters, with a couple of them already developing into young stars. He re-signed Smith, a move that might not have garnered a lot of attention at the time, but that has obviously been massive in retrospect, and in free agency he added outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu, who is playing at a Pro-Bowl level, while also adding several other key pieces to the defensive front like Shelby Harris, Quinton Jefferson and Bruce Irvin. And while it was no-doubt a very difficult decision to move on from a nine-time Pro-Bowl quarterback, the trade that sent Russell Wilson to Denver landed the Seahawks two starters in Harris and tight end Noah Fant, and a ton of draft capital that has already turned into left tackle Charles Cross and either running back Kenneth Walker III or outside linebacker Boye Mafe (we don’t know who Seattle would have picked with those back-to-back second-rounders had they…

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