After landing Mills, the Seahawks decide to do another job, their third in less than 20 minutes, sending the choice n ° 144 to the Browns in Cleveland, who use it to select the quarter Sheder Sanders, one of the most spoken players of the draft. To come back, the Seahawks receive choices 166 and 192.
In the last 20 minutes, there have been tons of activity in the draft room and almost non -stop telephone conversations, with more than one call due to. However, all this activity was panicked. No one has ever looked or sounded when they were warned because the choices were exchanged with several teams, as well as a job involving another player. And it is because man at the center of all this action, Schneider, knows how to set the right tone for his draft room.
“When we talk about maintaining our culture here, I think what people do not realize is what a big impact he has had on our culture from the start until now and continues to do so,” said Teasley about Schneider. “This is only a case of what he is capable of doing the day of the draft. The way he controls the room and the way he empowers everyone. His leadership, it brings his calm.”
With a little appeal after all the commercial action, Schneider, Teasley, Macdonald, Hineline, Kirchner, Berry and some coaches stand in front of the room to study the table. In particular, they want the coordinator of special teams Jay Harbaugh to reflections on how players could integrate into this phase of the game.
As Schneider often points out, day 3, it is when players fly from the table, which can be difficult to see for scouts after having put as much work in the evaluation of many players who will not find themselves in their team. Such a player goes to the jets at n ° 162, with Florence noting that the second Francisco Mauigoa is a hell of a good player. This does not mean that he would have been the next Seahawks choice, but this is an example of a scout to watch a player he likes to go to another team.
The Seahawks are back on the clock at n ° 166. Before the Seahawks made the appeal to the state receptor of Colorado Tory Horton, Schneider requests a reminder of the nickname Horton, T-Bone.
The scout of the Josh Graff region then calls Horton to ask: “Are you ready to return to Seattle”, a reference to the 30 visits from Horton to Seattle.
“We are going to choose you here at 166,” continues Graff.
Schneider then takes the phone offering enthusiasm, “What’s up to nine t-bone? Welcome again.”
“I’m ready, I’m glad you got me,” said Horton.
After the cardinals took the Denzel Burke corner half at 174, the Seahawks are back in the chronometer towards the end of the fifth round. In the room, several scouts and coaches tell Kubiak that he is about to get his back.
And just on the signal, the half-back coach Kennedy Polamalu enters the room for a few moments before the Seahawks took Robbie Ouzs, a tight end became the back of the Alabama.
Hineline makes the call to Ouzts and said to him: “Be excited because we are about to select you here. I tell you to excite you.”
It met “no way!” From Ouzts, followed by Hineline saying to him: “I told you what we think of you since the jump. Come here and compete so that the work is our starting back. Do not shave the mustache. This must remain. It is part of the contract.”
Macdonald ends his call with Ouzs giving him very solid rear advice, saying: “We are really excited. Come and crush the guys, okay.” Then, while the call ends, with brief conversations with Schneider, Kubiak and Polamalu, “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd is invited to the recovery room.
If you have not noticed it now, a regular event for this year’s draft Seahawks, as well as last year, was to let the scouts of the region make the initial call to a recovery choice rather than Schneider or Macdonald. The idea behind it is to give a reward and make a small projector shine on the scouts who work hard who do so much vital work in preparation for the draft, generally with little or no fanfare.
“They are such an important part of the process because they are behind the scenes,” said Teasley. “I mean, they will start in a month. And then they will be on the road, they will be far from their families, the work they devote, the time they put and the relationships they build with these players. They deserve this moment, they deserve this opportunity.”
After the colts make consecutive choices, the Eagles take the offensive line Myles Hinton at 192, putting the Seahawks back on the chronometer with one of the choices they obtained in their profession earlier during the day with Cleveland.
Parrish calls Kansas Bryce Cabeldue goalkeeper, the second of three offensive line players with whom the Seahawks will leave in the draft.
After Parrish welcomes Cabeldue to the team, he gives the phone to Schneider, who said to his new line player: “This time, you have to have a beer with me, okay? Congratulations, guy, come here and prepare to kick the ass.”
The raiders take the second Cody Lindenberg at the start of the seventh round, and after a long wait, the Seahawks are back on the clock at 223, preparing to make their first seventh round choices.
In accordance with the theme of the draft, the offensive coaches return to the room to prepare for a player to be chosen on this side of the ball.
Hineline calls the ball carrier at the University of Miami, Damien Martinez, who before joining the Hurricanes was a star of the PAC-12 at Oregon State.
“You want to return to the northwest of the Pacific or what? We will select you here at 223,” explains Hineline.
After Schneider congratulated, Martinez said: “Pacific Northwest, direct this large area, baby.”
Macdonald takes the phone, adding: “We love your game, guy. Come be you. Be hard, run the devil of this rock, and go break people in special teams. How does it sound?”
“It sounds great,” says Martinez. “Let’s do it.”
After Schneider and Macdonald welcomed Martinez in the team, Kubiak opens his turn with Martinez, asking: “Hey, do you still remember how to run under the center, right? From your Oregon state days?”
“Not too long ago,” he said. “I’m ready.”
At the back of the room, Janocko quips, “beautiful introduction” with a laugh when hearing the line “Run Under Center” of Kubiak.
The choice of first round Gray Zabel, who arrived at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center a few hours earlier, is in the recovery room with his parents, Mark and Tanna, meeting coaches, scouts and leaders while the seventh round continues to take place.
The packers take Micah Robinson, putting the Seahawks on the chronometer once again, how the Zabel family thinks that it is the right time to get out of the room.
Just after Zabel and his parents leave the play, Kirchner calls, asking where they went. They are quickly taken nearby in a corridor and brought back to the recovery room. Since he has been here, the Seahawks will let Zabel make the call to an offensive line colleague and Midwesterner, the Iowa Tackle / Guard Mason Richman.
“I’m just standing here in the room, and I’m supposed to ask you if you are ready to be a Seahawk,” said Zabel.
After Zabel repeats himself in Richman, who is not quite sure what is going on, Richman says: “Oh yeah, how that?”
While Macdonald, Kubiak and Benton all welcome Richman in the team, Zabel notes at the back of the room he was, “nervous as hell” by making the call.
