On the flight to Los Angeles for Seattle’s first exhibition game last month while many of the veterans around him began to fall into various stages of sleep rookie cornerback Shaquill Griffin pulled out his computer and began doing some last-minute studying of the Chargers, the opponent the next day.
Griffin watched film until coach Pete Carroll walked by and noticed and told him to put the computer away.
The message Carroll was sending was a simple one — don’t overthink things.
“He didn’t want me to overwhelm myself,’’ Griffin recalled. “At the end of the day, just got to go play football.