When Ken Norton Jr. accepted Pete Carroll’s offer in January and returned to the Seahawks to be their defensive coordinator after a couple years away in Oakland, there was the superstar quality across Seattle’s defense.
Richard Sherman. Kam Chancellor. Earl Thomas. Bobby Wagner. K.J. Wright. Michael Bennett. Cliff Avril. Sheldon Richardson.
Norton had plans to use all that experience to blitz and attack in 2018, to make opposing offenses react to his Seahawks defense, not the other way around.
Nine months later? Whom Norton has versus whom he signed up with are as different as Seattle is to Oakland.