The NFL Draft is simply across the nook, so issues are beginning to warmth up for the Seattle Seahawks and new head coach Mike Macdonald. Whereas the main focus is about to be fully on gamers who’ve by no means performed an NFL snap, the veterans are nonetheless getting an opportunity to pontificate about how the offseason goes underneath the brand new workers. Thankfully, all stories are constructive, with the brand new guys and veterans alike having constructive issues to say on the group’s presser on Wednesday.
John Boyle shared the next quotes on the official group web site.
Leonard Williams fielded some questions first, which is fascinating as a result of it sheds some perspective on how he’s seeing the modifications occur, on condition that he performed solely eight video games with the group final season.
“I keep in mind the primary day we got here into the group assembly, Mike identified that there’s empty partitions within the hallways and issues like that,” mentioned defensive lineman Leonard Williams. “For an individual like me, that made me actually excited, and I hope it made the remainder of the fellows excited. We’re clearly going to respect custom and the historical past of the Seahawks, however I feel it’s giving us a clear basis to create no matter we wish to be. We’re not chasing to be like some other group that’s been right here earlier than, we wish to create our personal id.”
Williams went on to say some constructive phrases about Pete Carroll, saying that he appreciates the truth that he’s in Seattle due to Pete; he even credit the previous Seahawks coach as serving to him revitalize his profession.
He did, nonetheless, stress the urgency that the group feels this season; clearly, they aren’t this as a rebuilding yr, no matter what outsiders could suspect.
“You possibly can simply inform there’s a way of urgency proper now, in a means that’s bringing everybody nearer collectively, that’s making everybody be so locked in in conferences and the burden room and on the sphere,” Williams mentioned. “You possibly can simply inform everybody’s locked in on a special stage.”
Charles Cross chimed in with “I like him [Macdonald]. I really feel like he brings a tenacity to the constructing. He’s a really blunt, to-the-point man. He simply needs to get the job accomplished on the finish of the day.”
Devon Witherspoon added that every thing goes “easy to date,” however he did spotlight some variations which have include the teaching change.
“Completely different so far as the best way he runs issues round right here, the best way he talks, terminology once we’re talking about soccer, and simply the best way he teaches us in regards to the stuff we’re doing proper now.”
“I had a very good yr, however it might be so much higher. That’s what coach retains telling me every single day. He’s like, ‘You had a very good yr, however you’ve received a lot extra potential, and I can’t wait to use that.’”
The offseason nonetheless holds loads of surprises, and the draft is correct across the nook. So much can and can change by the point camp rolls round, however within the meantime it’s constructive to see that gamers and coaches are dealing with the regime-change with aplomb. What stays to be seen is what kind of motivational indicators/slogans/and so forth are up Mike Macdonald’s sleeves…
