The Seattle Seahawks’ “move” to improve the kicking position last year was not much of a move at all. They signed Blair Walsh to a one-year deal on February 9, signaling the end for Steven Hauschka more than a month before Hauschka was set to become a free agent.
The deal didn’t “backfire” though, it fired in the direction that many expected it to fire: Walsh is bad, Hauschka was good. Let’s hope that Jason Myers is not a sign that the Seahawks learned nothing from that lesson.
Seattle signed Myers on January 3, a couple months after he was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars.