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This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports.

Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com.

Now here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross.

Talking free agency and the draft with NFL network analyst Mark Ross.

Joining us now on the Emerald Queen

Casino Sportsbook hotline. Mark, how's it going? We are outstanding. It's been obviously so fun

to talk about the Seahawks. Primarily our offseason is circled on how they get back there,

but we're starting out with a few losses. So I guess my first question is going to be,

and you would know this,

obviously, how front offices operate. When you are a team that didn't have a lot of holes

entering the off season, is free agency always a little bit different for you?

Of course. Yeah. When you have a good foundation, you're really being selectively targeting players.

And, you know, for Seattle, that's the gift and the curse of winning a Super Bowl.

You usually win a Super Bowl because you've got a ton of good players, but you can't keep

them all.

But as long as you have that foundation, and that's why you have to draft as well as possible,

so you don't get desperate and free agency.

If you look at the inverse relationship of free agency and winning teams,

most of the teams that you saw super active in free agency,

let's say Tennessee or the Raiders were bad teams.

They had a ton of money.

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