3 reasons Drew Lock should win the Seahawks starting QB job
By Lee Vowell
He will be better with fewer expectations
Pete Carroll has tried to really talk up Drew Lock. Carroll said, quite rightfully most likely, that had Lock been coming out in this year’s draft, he would be the first quarterback taken. While this is probably true, two things should be noted. This year’s draft class was bad. And Lock wasn’t a slouch in 2019 when he was drafted as he was taken in the second round.
It isn’t where the quarterback is drafted but how he does once he is in the NFL. Lock has been extremely inconsistent.
That said, Denver chose Lock thinking – hoping – he would become the franchise’s next great quarterback. He didn’t. But the Seahawks don’t have that same kind of expectation with Lock. There is hope he will be good, just Denver had hope. But the assumed kind of thinking that Lock will be very good isn’t there.
Lock now has a weird kind of freedom as he is away from his initial disappointment with his play with the Broncos and also away from the confidence-sucking assumption that just because Lock was not great to start his career that he will never be great from Broncos fans.
If any coach can get a player to buy more into themselves with a constant bombardment of positive attitude, it is Pete Carroll. Lock’s issues don’t seem to all be physical but mental as well. A change of scenery can help quite a bit and Carroll can help quite a bit too.