I was talking to my dad the other day about the Seahawks and about NFL free agency in general, and he asked me whether he thought that Seattle had gotten better this offseason. It's a good question.
On paper, and on the surface, it's pretty easy to look at their losses (starters Russell Okung, J.R. Sweezy, and Brandon Mebane) compared to their gains (uh... Bradley Sowell and J'Marcus Webb?) and conclude they are going backwards.
Of course, you'll quickly remind me that Seattle kept a bunch of their own -- Jeremy Lane, Ahtyba Rubin, Jermaine Kearse, Mike Morgan, and Christine Michael -- but do we really count the team re-signing their own players as "getting better?