John Schneider Here For Six More Years At Least

Seattle Seahawks general manager has one more year left on his contract however he signed an extension of five years to keep him around for at least six more years. This contract probably makes him the highest paid general manager in the NFL since details were mentioned.

The Seahawks will probably have another announced coming up soon with an extension for Head Coach Pete Carroll. Whether that contract will be as long as Schneider’s it is hard to tell at this point. Again Carroll will likely be the highest paid coach or at the very least near the top.

It has been really nice the work Schneider and Carroll have done together the time they have spent in Seattle. Not many general managers and head coaches work well together. We know that by the prior regime that was here though there was success on the playing field for some of the time.

Training camp will be starting for the Seahawks this coming Friday July 29. I am sure some of the news we will be hearing about is the contract of Michael Bennett. We can hope that the Seahawks can reconstruct his contract however Bennett knew what he was into when he signed the contract. I recommend that Seahawk players in the future with their agents put in where they get performance clauses for being recognized as one of the top at their position. I am not sure this would apply to someone like Russell Wilson or Doug Baldwin but the rest of the players should look into it. Another option would be to sign a shorter length contract with a higher guarantee. This would work especially for guys like Bennett. Of course a lot depends upon the position they are playing and what other guys are making. Unfortunately there is no perfect solution.

 The Huskies and Cougars will be starting their training camps soon as well. A couple weeks ago the Media that covers the Pac-12 announced that they figured the Huskies would finish second and the Cougars fourth in the Northern Division behind Stanford and UCLA favored in the South. Oregon is right between the Huskies and the Cougars. We hope this means that this year the Huskies will finally beat the Ducks. I know all of us being Seahawk fans there is a mixture of Huskies, Cougars, Ducks and Beavers in the group.

Huskies Coach Chris Peterson thought it was premature to favor the Huskies to be second place. I believe that they have the talent but the lack of experience it is hard to say whether second place will happen. There is a possibility that the Cougars and Huskies could flip flop this year. It would not surprise me at all that in 2017 that the Huskies and Cougars could be going for the lead of the North Division. The Apple Cup over the next several years should be very interesting. The winner could go on and win the Rose Bowl at the very least. Anyway whether NFL or Pac-12 this will be a very good football season.

Over the next six months or so I will be writing a lot here about these three teams while I have been writing about the Mariners primarily since last football season was over. For those who are Mariner fans too I have another website that all I do write about is the Mariners so here is the link to it https://marinerbaseballbyherb.wordpress.com. I hope that all the sport teams have a lot of success for the remaining of 2016.