Secondary Concerns are Secondary to QB

The Seahawks have quickly developed into one of the most complete football teams in the NFL. When you look at each of the player groups, on both offense and defense, it is hard to find a weakness. It is hard to find someone that does not rank both our DL and LB groups near the top in the league. The biggest question mark on defense is our secondary. The offense was the most effecient in the league last year. The starters hardly require discussion, but we have a solid backup in Maurice Morris at RB, and some promising, young fullbacks behind Mack Strong. We also are looking good at WR with the addition of Nate Burleson, Peter Warrick fully recovered from his injury and the emergence of D.J. Hackett. Outside of Matt Hasselbeck, our QB situation is a little suspect.

Taking a deeper look at our secondary, we might be in better shape than many fans seem to think. We might not even want Ty Law anymore. The big concern for our team was at safety. It was Etric Pruitt that made two mistakes leading to the two long TDs by the Steelers in the Superbowl. Ken Hamlin seems to be progressing, but with the uncertainty surrounding him and the loss of Marquand Manuel, we have to ask ourselves what are we going to do if something happens to Hamlin. People are overlooking Mike Green and Jordan Babineaux. Mike Green has played both SS and FS and was second in tackles two seasons ago (2004) in Chicago on arguably the best defense in the NFL. Jordan Babineaux has shown that he can be an impact player when called upon, and the Seahawks have been using him some at FS in practice. The problem with Babineaux moving to FS is that it weakens our CB-depth. However, Kelly Jennings is playing very well so far. Looking at the depth chart, we are in pretty good shape. We need 3 CBs at all times for the Nickel defense. So, if Hamlin goes out, we can move over Babineaux as he figures to be the 4th CB. If we lose a CB and Hamlin, then Babineaux stays at CB and Mike Green moves to FS. Even if we lose both of our starting safeties (Hamlin and Boulware), we can play Mike Green at SS, Babineaux at FS and still have Trufant, Jennings and Herndon in at CB. It is never a good thing to lose two players in the secondary, but any of the above scenarios do not spell disaster and in fact, we look like we have our bases covered pretty well. Of course, if we lose 3 DBs we are in trouble, but so is every team in the NFL.

Taking all of that into account, we should be more concerned with the QB situation. If Hasselbeck goes down we have Seneca Wallace and no matter how much you like him, he got his first regular season action last year and has 13 career pass completions. Behind him, we have David Greene who has never played in a regular season game and has been a little disappointing to this point. And NFL Europe Offensive MVP Gibran Hamdan has been injured the past two seasons and has never even played in an NFL pre-season game. Our concerns in the secondary are secondary to those at QB.

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