It was June, the Seahawks were in minicamp, and everyone, not just here but across the league, was still about a month and a half away from the summer’s first padded practice.
Not that you would’ve known that if you pulled up to Seattle’s Renton, Wash., practice field.
“We were jaw-jacking, talking smack to each other. It’s minicamp, OTAs, and you can’t tell that,” recounted quarterback Geno Smith. “Guys are competing, like really competing. It’s really just the culture of the locker room. It’s what we do. I always go to the weight room at 6 a.m. no matter what I do, and I’ve got guys literally trying to beat me to the weight room. There are guys in there at 5:30, 5:40. I’m just like, Come on, guys.
