One after another they took the podium, the highest-profile, most outspoken and most influential players on the Seahawks, to quell the talk of dissension tearing apart the Seattle locker room.
It was a veritable kumbaya singalong, and they didn’t even need coach Pete Carroll to conduct.
But amid the condemnation of unnamed sources and reaffirmation of fidelity that marked organized team activities and minicamp — the final bridge to the official launch of the 2017 season — it was defensive lineman Michael Bennett who summed it up best (as is so often the case).
This was a gift, Bennett said, after opining that a recent ESPN article instigating the angst in Seattle was a result of what he called a “media drought” — the dreaded period with no actual football to generate storylines.