Sharkonabicycle
Bipedal Sea Dog
The reality of the business. Sherman is heading into the last year of his contract which will pay him 13 mil. Lots of questions, will he even be 100% for the last year? Is there a chance he has no intentions of extending for a realistic dollar value after this year? Has Sherman representing himself making things harder? It does seem that the team wanted to have a sit down with Sherman about the future. About reducing his salary for next season, about learning what their options are. It is easy to speculate, that the Seahawks are not comfortable giving Sherman 13 mil for the final year of his contract when there is a strong chance that he due to injury may not be the same player he used to be for that final year. There is also this cap thing, a mini rebuild happening and most importantly, the Seahawks are reluctant to give big money to players over the age of 30. Cutting him may be a short term ouch, but the right thing to do when looking ahead 2 to 3 years from now
Agree with all of this... don't make the Felix Hernandez mistake. Should've traded him last year, frankly.
Seattle's CBs did not play terribly last year either. Griffin played quite well, Shead will hopefully get healthy, and we didn't even see some of our other draft picks take the field due to so much depth.
I see zero reason to keep Sherman around. I will miss his leadership and assistance with the younger guys (or so I'm told from camp, etc.). He seems to be a quite willing player to help out the younger guys and improve their game... but that's also why you hire coaches.