Soccer is again in three weeks!
Coaching camp on the Virginia Mason Athletic Middle is an excellent expertise, because the 1000’s of followers who drop in every summer season can attest. The setting is unequalled, and the low-key ambiance holds a enjoyable dichotomy of high-flying 1-on-1 go ball drills, with Darrell Taylor doing the griddy on the far subject.
Don’t anticipate full sport plans, and even a whole day of labor from the crew’s elites, however right here’s a couple of issues you must hope to see in direction of the top of July.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba to not get damage
Smith-Njigba was restricted throughout his earlier stint with the crew this Spring. Of all this 12 months’s rookies, JSN can be essentially the most disappointing to not make it by means of camp wholesome. Third receiver is an absolute desert for Seattle, and most the opposite rookie positions have at the least some degree of competitors. His presence provides an instantaneous enhance to the offensive choices over final season.
Quiet information about Geno Smith
I don’t wanna learn Bob Condotta tweet “the offense was shut down in goal-line drills in the present day, going 0-10 with an interception.” All accounts to date are that Geno Smith has already entered the summer season program with a mastery of the crew and offense that have been unfathomable final season. We don’t want him to show it with spotlight reel apply throws. If he’s making good reads and discovering wide-open Tyler Lockett when he must, issues will (ought to) be usually quiet round Smith. And that’s factor.
Kenneth Walker vs. Zach Charbonnet
Clearly Walker III has confirmed it, and Charbonnet has not but. However with such totally different kinds, I do hope to see a number of the battle come out within the type of distinctive explosive performs from each of them. The truth that the Seahawks instantly declared Walker’s job isn’t just handed to him after a 1,000-yard rookie season means each backs ought to have a lot to be enthusiastic about throughout apply, and that’s enjoyable.
Jamal Adams
For the love of God, please simply apply in some unspecified time in the future and don’t come off the sphere midway by means of the primary day.
Defensive competency?
That is the place expectations must be tempered. There str so few alternatives to hit one another, we’ll do not know if the crew is enjoying all that effectively towards the run or not. However Clint Hurtt has to acknowledge it wasn’t expertise alone final season that bled the crew dry. I’m merely hoping we get a way that the defensive gamers know the place they’re going, know what they’re doing, are assured in unleashing to make performs, and many others.
The added versatility of Julian Love, Adams (if current), and even Mike Morris converted-types, will make my coronary heart glad if it leads to vitality and dynamism, not muted confusion.
Seattle kicks off on July 26, with an opportunity to construct momentum upon their surprisingly profitable 2022 season.
