Wednesday was a busy day for common supervisor of the Seattle Seahawks John Schneider. First he orchestrated a commerce of one of many costlier free agent acquisitions of the offseasons, sending linebacker Jerome Baker to the Tennessee Titans in change for Ernest Jones.
Jones, after all, is a former undrafted free agent who began 33 video games for the Los Angeles Rams, together with eight throughout the 2021 season that ended with Sean McVay and firm hoisting the Lombardi trophy as Tremendous Bowl Champions. Nevertheless, the Rams traded Jones to the Tennessee Titans on the finish of coaching camp moderately than letting him play out a single season on a restricted free agent tender.
This submit just isn’t about Jones, although, this submit is concerning the second linebacker the Schneider added Wednesday, former member of the Baltimore Ravens Josh Ross. Ross was waived Tuesday as a way to activate Arthur Maulet from injured reserve, doubtless with the hope of bringing him again to the apply squad ought to he go unclaimed.
Nevertheless, Ross didn’t go unclaimed and now joins the Seahawks. The primary response for a lot of is that it is sensible for Seattle so as to add Ross, given his familiarity with Mike Macdonald’s protection after spending the 2022 and 2023 seasons taking part in for Macdonald with Baltimore and having performed at Michigan in 2021 when Macdonald was the defensive coordinator there. Protection is unlikely to be the explanation why Ross was claimed by Seattle, however there’s little purpose so as to add a participant who has zero profession defensive snaps to a workforce to enhance its protection.
Fairly merely, if Ross couldn’t see the sphere for the Ravens struggling 2024 protection, what would make him in a position to earn taking part in time for the marginally much less struggling 2024 Seahawks protection?
The reply to that query is that Ross wasn’t claimed to make Aden Durde’s job simpler. He was added to make Jay Harbaugh’s job simpler.
Harbaugh’s particular groups have, in a phrase, been horrible to date for the Seahawks, regressing considerably from the excessive stage performances seen below former particular groups coach Larry Izzo. Via simply the primary six weeks of the season the Hawks have shuffled the configuration of varied particular groups personnel groupings as Harbaugh and firm have labored to enhance the particular groups.
Now, Ross is added in to the equation, and the connection between Macdonald and Ross has been the main focus of most protection of the transfer. Nevertheless, what is much extra essential in terms of claiming Ross is the truth that throughout his 5 seasons at Michigan he logged a number of hundred particular groups snaps whereas taking part in for Jay Harbaugh.
Harbaugh joined his father’s employees at Michigan as tight ends coach and assistant particular groups coach in 2015, persevering with because the assistant particular groups coach by means of 2018, at which level he was promoted to particular groups coordinator a place he held till being employed by the Seahawks within the spring. That, after all, implies that the 345 particular groups snaps Ross performed at Michigan throughout his time there all got here below the watch of Harbaugh, both because the particular groups coordinator or as assistant particular groups coach.
Lengthy story brief, Ross isn’t right here to assist repair the Seahawks protection. He’s right here to assist repair the particular groups.
Now it’s only a matter of whose snaps he steals.
