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Brady HendersonESPN
RENTON, Wash. — The addition of Jadeveon Clowney had Pete Carroll drawing comparisons to the defensive-end duos from the Seattle Seahawks‘ fresh Tremendous Bowl groups.
It had Clowney’s new place trainer, Clint Hurtt, giving a public thank-you to Carroll and common supervisor John Schneider for arming his D-line with some other premier edge rusher to pair with Ezekiel Ansah.
And it had left take on Duane Brown and linebacker Ok.J. Wright speaking about how “frightening” Seattle’s protection may also be in 2019.
No person was once speaking like that right through coaching camp and the preseason, when Ansah was once nonetheless no longer practising and Clowney was once nonetheless a member of the Houston Texans as a franchise participant who had but to signal his smooth. The Seahawks’ protection was once regarded as a query mark due largely to its go rush with Frank Clark long gone, Jarran Reed suspended for 6 video games and no simple task on when Ansah could be able to play.
However the buzz from the blockbuster business the Seahawks made to obtain Clowney was once glaring at workforce headquarters Wednesday as gamers spoke with journalists for the primary time for the reason that deal went down Saturday.
“He is a sport changer,” mentioned Brown, who was once teammates with Clowney for 3½ seasons in Houston. “I feel he brings a large number of consideration in ways in which you must scheme for him. I feel he can unquestionably assist us so much.”
Including to that optimism is that Ansah is on the right track to play reverse Clowney when the Seahawks open their season Sunday in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals now that he is recovered from shoulder surgical procedure and a more moderen groin damage.
“To have each Ziggy and Jadeveon on our workforce, that is other, that is a singular matchup proper there,” Carroll mentioned ahead of recalling Chris Clemons, Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril.
Clemons was once a starter at the 2013 workforce that gained Tremendous Bowl XLVIII. Bennett and Avril got here off the bench that season, then changed into starters at the 2014 workforce that misplaced Tremendous Bowl XLIX.
“It is very a lot the place we have been perhaps with Clem and Cliff and Mike and Cliff again within the day the place we actually felt like we had guys that actually may do one thing off the threshold and fly up the sphere,” Carroll added. “Those guys be able to do this. We were given to increase it, it has got to occur, we’ve got were given to convey it to existence and all that, however they have got an opportunity. It is actually thrilling, the potentialities of what it may well be like.”
Wright mentioned the Seahawks’ defensive entrance is “up there” with the ones in their fresh Tremendous Bowl groups. He used “frightening” to explain Seattle’s protection total, whilst Brown was once regarding its entrance seven. Along with Clowney and Ansah at the edges, Seattle has second-year professional Poona Ford and veteran Al Woods beginning at defensive take on (a minimum of till Reed returns from his suspension) and Mychal Kendricks beginning along Wagner and Wright at linebacker.
All that is left to type out is who will get started at protection subsequent to Bradley McDougald and who would be the number one nickelback in Seattle’s younger secondary, which has totally became over the unique Legion of Increase with Earl Thomas long gone.
“It is frightening, guy,” Brown mentioned of the entrance seven’s doable. “It is frightening. Clearly Clowney and Ziggy at the edge. Poona Ford I feel goes to be a celebrity on this league. We get J-Reed again. Bobby and Ok.J. had been staples in this protection and within the league for a very long time taking part in at a top stage. Kendricks is an overly, very nice athlete. Additionally any person that may rush the passer when requested to.
“I feel it simply were given actual. It simply were given actual for different offenses, you recognize what I imply? I am taking a look ahead to it. We are going to do our phase on offense to check out to be as similarly bad, however gazing the ones guys goes to be amusing.”
Clowney (no longer injury-related) and Ansah (shoulder) have been each indexed as restricted at the workforce’s Wednesday observe record. Clowney’s NIR designation is an indication the Seahawks are operating him in slowly taking into account he hadn’t performed soccer and even practiced all offseason till Monday.
Hurtt mentioned he is pleasantly shocked with the form that Clowney stored himself in and mentioned he is been setting up additional paintings seeking to stand up to hurry in Seattle’s protection in a rush.
“There’s a distinction between working-out situation and soccer form, particularly when the pace begins choosing up and such things as that,” Hurtt mentioned. “However he is in the market working like a gazelle, so he appears excellent.”
Wagner was once requested what about Clowney’s sport sticks out maximum.
“His motor evidently,” he mentioned. “His effort. The vicious hits within the backfield. The working again has the ball and ahead of he makes a step, he is getting him. The sacks. You watch a pair performs the place he simply strikes a 350-pound lineman out of the best way find it irresistible’s not anything. It is simply the ability. I do know Russ [Wilson] is satisfied he is on our workforce.”
However Wagner additionally introduced up the 2017 season as a cautionary story. The Seahawks gave the impression in a similar way loaded on protection after obtaining Sheldon Richardson on cut-down weekend, however neglected the playoffs with a Nine-7 file.
“I feel now we have an opportunity to be actually excellent,” Wagner mentioned. “You more or less do not need to get stuck up in the entire hype, so far as seeing the entire names. … I am not announcing we did that, however we have been on the level the place we made a business for Sheldon they usually indexed the entire All-Execs and Professional Bowlers that have been at the workforce and it did not cross the best way [we] anticipated it to. So, I feel the point of interest is, you continue to need to do the paintings. So it isn’t important who is at the workforce; we’ve got nonetheless were given to make certain that we come in the market, ready, able to move. I am fascinated by this workforce. That is one in every of our closest teams. We spend a large number of time in combination. We have now grown so much in combination. I am excited to look how our expansion off the sphere seems at the box.”
