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Who else just got the update email? Been on the list since 2014 and finally dropped below number 2000

Here's why signing Diggs makes sense:

1. Elite ball skills. In 67 career games, Diggs has 20 interceptions and 63 passes defensed, including a league-leading 11 picks in the 2021 All-Pro season.

2. Seahawks desperately needs corners. We are thinner in the secondary after losing Tariq Woolen to the Eagles and Coby Bryant to the Bears in free agency, and our planned addition, Terrion Arnold, faces eight felony charges and will land on the commissioner’s exempt list.

3. Low-risk, high-upside deal. It’s a one-year contract for a player who’s still just 27 and will turn 28 during the 2026 season. If it doesn’t work, there’s no long-term cost. Diggs and Jobe are only a few months apart in age.

4. Familiar faces in the building. Diggs knows Seahawks secondary coach Karl Scott from Alabama and defensive coordinator Aden Durde from Dallas, plus ex-Cowboys teammates DeMarcus Lawrence & Dante Fowler Jr. is in the locker room.

5. Great coaching environment. Mike Macdonald is a defensive mastermind who could maximize whatever talent Diggs has left and he’s joining the defending Super Bowl champions. Seahawks D ranked #1 in DVOA.

6. Motivated contract year. After being cut by two teams in a month, Diggs is playing for his career and that’s the kind of hunger you want on a cheap deal.

Conclusion: This is a buy-low move by the Seahawks. They get a former All-Pro ballhawk at a position of sudden need, for one year, with built-in coaching connections and nothing to lose. The real question is HEALTH. He's played just 22 games over the past three seasons due to knee issues, but if the coaching staff keeps him on the field, then we may have landed the steal of late free agency.

In 2001, if you told me that I would get to see the Seahawks win not one, but TWO Super Bowls in the next 25 years, I would not have believed you.

Also, after the Mariners won 116 games and lost the ALCS, if you told me we’d have to wait 21 years to see them make the playoffs again, and 24 years to see them win the division again, I would not have believed you.

If you had told me that the summer I was going to graduate high school, the Sonics would be stolen from us, moved to Oklahoma??? and we would have to watch multiple MVPs play for that franchise while we continue to be without a team, I would not have believed you.

Moral of the story? When I was 11, the Seahawks were by far the team I was least confident in of my three die-hard fandoms. Now? Thank God for the Seahawks.

Right now we're solid with Spoon and Jobe but we also know that CB3 matters in any D and a lot in our D. I think the combo of 1) Neal's injury preventing him doing much in training camp 2) Noah I's play/overall history 3) Pritchett's inconsistency and still-developing capabilities (he's got the traits just not always the mentals) 4) Two 7th round rookies as our other depth - and all that combined to create this push to shore up depth at CB spots 3 and 4+. I also don't think they were pleased with what they saw on film after the first game.

"If only they'd tagged K9, then we could've taken a CB in round 1." Was Ken crazy talented? Yes. Was he also rather mercurial and not necessarily in the long-term plans at the tagged price, never mind his preferred price? Yup. I personally (just my opinion) don't think there was any serious intention to re-sign K9. And without Charbs injury, we're not even spending much time on this topic. But Charbs did get injured, K9 wasn't tagged and we picked a RB and not a CB in the 1st. It is what it is.

Am I panicking? No - not at all, and I don't think anyone should be either. The team is playing the long game regarding Arnold and shoring up things in the here and now with Diggs for competition at the 3rd or 4th CB spot.

What all of this does say, however, is they have far more developmental time ahead for Neal, Fuller and Dansby, and Neal has to get and stay healthy first.

Watching Hard Knocks last night I saw that John had each super bowl victory tattooed on the inside of each elbow. I never noticed that before or heard it talked about and thought it was pretty cool.

Curious if anyone has any other thoughts on this, but I’m not loving how much emphasis they’re placing on Milroe to run. Would rather he develop more as a passer as that will take his career further in the long run. Running from my experience watching, comes naturally to athletes like him. What are yall thinking?