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Today I went to the Seahawks practice at the VMAC facility. It rained really hard for the first half of the practice, so there was a bit of slipping and sliding on the grass.

Here are some observations I made:

• Jordan Kent looked amazing; he made a lot of really good catches way down the field.
• Butler dropped quite a few passes
• Aaron Curry blew past Justin Forsett twice in a row in 1-on-1 drills
• Hasselbeck looked to be having troubles throwing deep balls; they tended to float in the air a lot and receivers were slowing down to wait for them to come back down
• Hasselbeck’s first pass in the scrimmage got picked by Josh Wilson and it looked like it would have gone back for a TD
• Mike Teel was overthrowing receivers badly. He’s still a bit rough to be sending out there.
• Deon Grant went down during the scrimmage and had a trainer looking at his thighs
• Seneca looked solid, maybe held onto the ball too long in some cases
• Our O-Line was getting owned badly by blitzes. Anytime we did a secondary blitz, there was no answer and it led to a sack

And here are some pictures. You can see the amount of rain coming down in a lot of them.

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I guess Chicago got way too fed up with Rex Grossman and Kyle Orton. But god damn, two first round draft picks, a third rounder, and Kyle Orton for Cutler? That’s excessive by any standard.

On the other hand, Josh McDaniels better know what he’s doing down there in Denver. I’m not sure I’d trust my team’s success to Kyle Orton.

Another part of me wonders if this sets the market if Seattle wanted to trade Hasselbeck or Seneca Wallace.  If we drafted Stafford/Sanchez with the first rounder and then traded Hasselbeck, I think I’d be ok with that as long as we got a decent return from the trade.

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