Not quite the premium players

Imagine being a kid and going grocery shopping with your mom.

Wanting Lucky Charms, getting the generic version. Frosted Flakes, same thing.

That’s kind of what it feels like being a Seahawks fan after the first few days of free agency.

AS MOST teams attempt to fill holes to somehow, someway beat the New England Patriots for the Super Bowl title in 2018, although with the moves they’ve made, it will be hard to get past them again.

Meanwhile in the northwest, the Seahawks have flirted with the idea of signing Adrian Peterson, T.J. Lang and Jamal Charles, helping fill a need that the team desperately needed last year.

Well, the flirting is about as far as that’s gotten so far.

Peterson left Seattle without a deal in place, and while it seemed things were going well enough that Lang said he believed he was 99.9 percent sure he’d sign with Seattle, the tackle opted to sign with Detroit instead. Charles still has his visit to Seattle scheduled, so who knows if he’ll actually sign or show up for that date or not.

Seattle hasn’t been totally absent in signings, getting tackle Luke Joeckel and running back Eddie Lacy on one-year deals in the past three days.

Joeckel, a former second overall pick from Texas A&M, could be a nice fit for the team if he’s healthy, but after missing time in Jacksonville last season, my hopes are that he’ll be healthy enough to compete for a starting job when the time comes in August.

Lacy’s addition kind of came as a surprise.

Many of the reports had Peterson and Charles coming in for visits, without any news of Lacy even being interested in joining the team.

Seattle already has Thomas Rawls and C.J. Prosise locked into running back spots, but much like Joeckel, both were unable to get on track due to injuries last season.

But Lacy could be just what the Seahawks need, especially after the retirement of Marshawn Lynch.

Lacy, if healthy, can be tough to bring down at times and if he can play a little angry — much like Lynch did — it could be one of the best moves the team has made.

A FOOTBALL fan suggested to me that the Seahawks window for winning another Super Bowl championship is closing.

And they could be right, with players on the defense another year older and the offense seeming to have taken a step back in the running game.

But I’ve never been much of a person that believes in that theory of a window being opened or closed in sports.

Granted, they haven’t been the same in recent years and these moves haven’t exactly sold many on them being back to the top of the mountain.

Any Fruit Loop could tell you that.

Jason Elliott is a sports writer for the Coeur d’Alene Press. He can be reached by telephone at (208) 664-8176, Ext. 2020 or via email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @JEPressSports.