We have become so conditioned to the start of NFL free agency being a spectator sport for the Seahawks that the news of an actual significant signing Monday seemed like a prank.
Surely it must have been one of those fake Twitter accounts that crop up at times like this, authored by someone named Cob Bondotta. Because that's not how general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll operate.
They preferred to sit back and let their competition fight among themselves in the early feeding frenzy, not unlike when appliance-store doors used to open on Black Friday and customers would tussle over the one $50 deluxe television set. As Carroll has said multiple times over the years, the first day is when you tend to make the kinds of mistakes that haunt a team for years.
