Revisiting what Colin Cowherd got wrong on his Seahawks Mount Rushmore

First off, this is not an article that is going to trash Colin Cowherd. Is he a highly paid talking head who gets a lot of notoriety when he says salacious tidbits? Yes, of course, and he had made a good living doing that. Truth is how you want to spin it. We have learned that if a person says something often enough, in the end that becomes some kind of truth.

But Cowherd also comes by his observations of the Seattle Seahawks honestly. He was born and raised in Washington state and went to school at Eastern Washington University. While he looks like he is in his early 40s, he is actually 60 years old. He can remember when the Seahawks first became an NFL franchise and he was local when the team did.

In other words, when Cowherd names his Mount Rushmore for Seattle football, he has a better idea than has he named the Mount Rushmore of the Green Bay Packers. Sure, he has lived elsewhere for a long time, but Cowherd was a Seattle fan during his impressionable years.

Colin Cowherd gets half of the Seahawks Mount Rushmore correct

Still, there are some quibbles with who he lists on his Seattle mountain. Everyone has a right to name the players they think best represent any team, but the rest of us have a right to point out the flaws.

Also, naming Steve Largent to a Seahawks Mount Rushmore isn't just commonplace, it is a must. Cowherd does do this, thankfully, but if anyone were to leave Largent off then their list becomes meaningless. Largent and fellow Hall of Famer Walter Jones aside, Cowherd's list goes off the rails a bit.

The other two, with an odd special mention to quarterback Jim Zorn, that Cowherd names are Richard Sherman and Shaun Alexander. Both were great players for Seattle, but neither should be on the list ahead of some others. One of the two should be replaced by Cortez Kennedy, perhaps the best defensive lineman ever for a team that spent most of a decade in the dumps. Kennedy is also in the Hall of Fame.

The other player who must be on the mountain is Russell Wilson. Love him or hate him, Wilson is inarguably the best quarterback in franchise history and helped lead the team to its only Super Bowl victory. Sherman was part of the best defense in the history of the game (yes, that is a biased opinion, but so what?) but was he more important than Earl Thomas? And Thomas wasn't on Cowherd's list.

There is also the issue with Kenny Easley not being on the mountain. Imagine Easley playing on the Legion of Boom. Seriously...Just take a minute and imagine that.

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