Saturday, October 22 was my first chance to see Matt Barkley. In a prime time match-up that featured heavy weight prospects (WR Michael Floyd, LB Manti Te’0, OT Matt Kalil), it was Barkley’s performance against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish that left the strongest impression on me. In this game, I saw (and you shall [...]
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Last time, I chronicled my initial thoughts on Pete Carroll and his pre-draft strategy. I posed some possible reasons why he might have opted to build his team around former players, and gave examples in the modern NFL. Today, I will answer the question I left you with: Why did Pete Carroll overlook his USC [...]
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A major storyline during this 2010 NFL Draft, for me, was seeing how Pete Carroll would value his former USC players. Would he build his Pete Carroll (NFL.com) Seahawks with a foundation of USC products? Based on the near-daily reports regarding the Seahawks trade talks for former USC players during free agency (Reggie Bush, Matt [...]
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