Seahawks cutting Dwight Freeney is weird, right?

The Seahawks cut a future Hall of Fame defensive end on Tuesday. But on Wednesday he is with a new team. Seattle’s move is a bit weird.

Seahawks defensive end – shall I say former Seattle defensive end – Dwight Freeney is now a Detroit Lion. Freeney now being elsewhere isn’t exactly shocking. His being cut just seems to be…I don’t know…odd.

The Seahawks’ season is a bit like The Cure’s album Pornography. Stick with me. When the Cure were making the album, Robert Smith said at times the album needed to be more ugly. Well, this Seattle season has been ugly. Full of injuries and misguided decisions and etc., etc. But overall, Seattle is still 6-4 and could make the playoffs. Beautiful and ugly at the same time, just like the Cure album.

This is why we love Seattle. It’s complicated.

But Freeney did not seem bad. Sure, the last two games he hasn’t registered a tackle. But is that why Seattle brought him in? To be a huge tackler? No. The Seahawks signed him to be a pass rusher. And he has been pretty good. Three sacks in his first two games. He isn’t the savior of the defense. But he filled the place of Cliff Avril pretty well. Well enough.

In fact, Freeney did well enough on his own personally that he got picked up by the Detroit Lions nearly immediately. I am not sure what the Seahawks were thinking in releasing Freeney. Not saying it was a bad decision. Just literally, I have no idea what John Schneider and Pete Carroll were thinking. Maybe they are making room for another player. An as yet unnamed player? Who knows?

Cliff Avril isn’t coming back this season. The Seahawks defensive line is short on players. Of course, so are the defensive backs. And the offensive line. And the running backs. Seattle is banged up.

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The real weirdness comes that Freeney was a one-year guy. And Seattle let him go in the middle of a lost season. Strange decision. Even by Seahawks standards.