463: Hawkpocalypse 3 - Seahawks GM's Third Massive Roster Shakeup

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Football, Sports

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Prior to this offseason, General Manager John Schneider presided over two major shakeups of the Seahawks post-Super Bowl roster. We've referred to these as a 'Hawkpocalypse' due to their significance. Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett all left in 2018. Then two franchise cornerstones in Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner left in 2022. This offseason seems to close the book on some remaining pillars of the Pete Carroll era: Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf and Geno Smith. But does this shift seem as dire as the previous two, or is it a strategy to be celebrated? Will Schneider's move to bring in Sam Darnold, Cooper Kupp and Marquez Valdes-Scantling be able to fill the holes that were created in the roster? Even if they don't, we should expect the improvements on defense will help carry the 2025 Seahawks.

In the second half of the show, we talk about some dream scenarios and nightmare scenarios for the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft. Could a dream interior lineman fall into the Seahawks lap, or will they move up to draft a quarterback or even stay put to take another running back? This week, a writer at the Sporting News and a Discord hacker need to 'Do Better.' Better at life honors go out to a diner in Oregon and Sam Darnold's prolific Reddit fanclub.

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0:00.0	This is the Seahawkers podcast.
0:09.3	Episode 463.
0:12.0	I'm Brandon Schultz, and I am joined by my good buddy, Adam Emmert.
0:16.2	Adam, you're, gosh, less than a month away from the draft now.
0:20.1	What's going on?
0:20.7	What's happening to our
0:22.6	2025? All sorts of things in one of the more perplexing off seasons that I think we've been
0:29.4	involved in in a minute. But then I say that and then I think, well, Russ was jettisoned a
0:33.6	couple seasons ago and, you know, then Pete. And so it's been, it's been a lot the last few
0:38.6	off seasons. But this one is one that I think confuses me the most. And so we just had free agency, more or less wrap up. There's going to be more signings around the league and all that. But like the big ones, the ones that move the needle. And then we've got, like you said, the draft coming up in about three weeks here which is super
0:54.8	exciting and uh you had a great idea to maybe check in now that the free agency stuff is
1:00.8	kind of settled and really go through it time to process it i don't know how you're feeling about
1:06.4	all of it but i'm confused i i don't I don't know if I'd say I'm confused.
1:12.2	I would say that I'm very much dialed in on this being a major change based on,
1:20.1	you brought it up.
1:21.3	Russ being traded, Pete leaving.
1:23.4	I don't know if I put it necessarily in the Pete leaving category because, I don't know, to me that just felt like it was time. I don't know if I put it necessarily in the Pete leaving category because, I don't know, to me, that just felt like it was time.
1:31.5	I know it was a little early for you, but it was, we had kind of run our course of Pete Carroll.
1:37.4	And so it wasn't like, it wasn't jarring.
1:40.8	And this offseason, it almost seems a little bit jarring.
1:44.3	And so I wanted to throw this out to you, throw it out to the listeners too.
1:48.5	We've done two shows over the course of these 463 episodes where we've called it a hawkpocalypse,
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