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Seahawks should re-sign Marshawn Lynch like right now

By Lee Vowell

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 29: Marshawn Lynch #24 of the Seattle Seahawks runs to his position during the fourth quarter of the game against the San Francisco 49ers at CenturyLink Field on December 29, 2019 in Seattle, Washington. The San Francisco 49ers top the Seattle Seahawks 26-21. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 29: Marshawn Lynch #24 of the Seattle Seahawks runs to his position during the fourth quarter of the game against the San Francisco 49ers at CenturyLink Field on December 29, 2019 in Seattle, Washington. The San Francisco 49ers top the Seattle Seahawks 26-21. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images) /
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Possibly the best running back in Seahawks history wants to return to Seattle in 2020. The question isn’t why? Because the answer is why not?

I am not going to be fair with this article and I am just going to warn you from the beginning. But according to rumors or speculation or reports or whatever, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch appears to want to return to play in 2020 and he wants to return to the Seahawks. To this Seattle should say, yes. In a second, the answer is yes.

Here is the thing. No, Lynch isn’t going to be the starter as long as Chris Carson is playing in Seattle. But Lynch showed late last year after taking a year and a half off that he will still run an opposing player’s ass over. And this is especially true near the goal line. Maybe Lynch didn’t have a great average yards-per-rush average in 2019. But if he can sense a touchdown, he is going to score.

Maybe he is still feeling angst about the Seahawks, famously, not giving him the ball against the Patriots in the Super Bowl. There is a good reason for this. He would have scored. The Seahawks knew it, 12s knew, and you can be damned sure that the Patriots knew it too.

The Patriots didn’t load up the right side because they knew Russell Wilson was going to throw on 2nd and goal. They had a hunch, based on film preparation, that Marshawn Lynch wouldn’t get the ball. The Patriots, nor the 1985 Bears, couldn’t have stopped Lynch from scoring and everyone knew it.

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I only bring up this specific and painful moment because Lynch was basically unstoppable near the endzone in 2019 (imagine how unstoppable he was in 2014!) and he should be brought back in 2020 for the same reason. He isn’t as athletic as Chris Carson (heck, he probably never was) and isn’t as explosive. But the Seahawks need Lynch to be a bully in short-yardage situations when Carson isn’t involved.

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And 12s, I can’t imagine someone more suited for that role. Can you? A backfield that has Carson beasting for most of the game and then Seattle brings in Lynch to bring in the pain? Um, hello. Sign me up for that. Just don’t sign up an opposing defensive player because they don’t want that force in their faces.

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