Seahawks look for linebacker help, literally anything at all
By Lee Vowell
The Seahawks re-signed Bruce Irvin this week in an attempt – any attempt – to find a linebacker that can give them help moving forward in 2022.
How many linebackers have the Seahawks used or signed or signed and used this season so far? If you are like me, you’ve lost count. It’s a lot. Seattle started with some players 12s hoped would be good: Jordyn Brooks, Cody Barton, Darrell Taylor and Uchenna Nwosu. Maybe half of those guys have been decent so far.
And I hate to say it, but if there is one place where Seattle actually misses the coaching of Ken Norton, Jr. this year it is at the linebacker position. Of course, Seattle misses the greatness of Bobby Wagner as well, but Norton had a long history of having linebackers do good things.
If Norton would have been demoted (no, that would not have been realistic as it would have caused a strange dynamic on the Seahawks defensive coaching staff) to linebackers coach, things might have been better this year. Instead, Brooks hasn’t taken a step forward to be a true Pro Bowler, Barton has made some good plays and disappeared at other times, Nwosu has been pretty good and Taylor has been terrible.
Seahawks sign Bruce Irvin in somewhat desperate move
This week Seattle decided to reach into its bag of “let’s see which former Seahawk we can bring back this week in any attempt to help” and signed Bruce Irvin. I have no issues with Irvin as he was good. At least, he was good when he was younger.
But the Seahawks have tried this before with Irvin. They signed him in 2020 and he was just OK and then he got hurt. In 2021, he found his way onto the Bears and had 7 tackles in 6 games.
That Seattle hopes Irvin can be ready right away and thinks he can help means two things. One is Irvin has been staying in football shape. Great! But the second part is much worse for 12s.
Next. 3 Seahawks that were awful in Week 5. dark
That Irvin would come in and take snaps from a Seahawks LB already on the roster and trying to earn more playing time means that Seattle is not at all happy with the players it has. It’s Week 6. The linebackers are an issue and they are also the center of the defense. This is going to be a long year defensively in Seattle.