Ahead of the start of training camps around the league next week, Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar took a look at all 32 teams and put together his training camp power rankings.
The Saints took the top spot and the Seahawks landed at No. 17 on his list.
“Pete Carroll and John Schneider have avoided the term ‘rebuild’ over the last couple of years, preferring to term what they’ve done to Seattle’s roster as a ‘retool,'” Farrar writes. “But with the retirement of Doug Baldwin and Earl Thomas exiting as the last member of the Legion of Boom, there’s no doubt about the architecture now.
“This is Russell Wilson’s team in a sense – the four-year, $140 million contract extension Wilson signed in April made that clear – but philosophically, Carroll and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer want a risk-averse offense at fundamental odds with Wilson’s brilliance outside of structure,” Farrar continued. “Add that to a defense that is still under construction, and this team resembles the Seahawks of the early Carroll/Schneider era before everything came together – we might be a year or so away from seeing what they can really be.”
