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2637286, RE: did they blow it? If anything, they blew a Super Bowl, but that's it.
Posted by COOLEHMAGAZINE, Wed Jan-10-18 04:16 PM
>I think they accidentally drafted three transformative
>players in as many years - Chancellor in 10, Sherman in 11,
>Russ in 12 - and, more or less, realized the potential of
>those hits.
>
>Any one of those three players could have altered the course
>of a franchise,
Kim Chancellor is not altering the course of any franchise. He is a really, really good player and an important leader on that team. He is not Ed Reed or Ronnie Lott, he's Joey Browner or Steve Atwater. The transformative player on the back end is Earl Thomas. He is the straw.
and they somehow landed all three. They should
>have two Super Bowls to show for it, but they at least have
>one. I have a hard time saying they blew it. NFL windows are
>fleeting - you strike while the iron is hot or it cools off
>faster than it heated up.
They should have won at least two and they shouldn't be out the playoffs and looking like a team teetering on the edge of a rebuild.
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