Lynch or Suh?

bananasnblondes

Since this discussion was all over the place today, what would you rather have?

Drop Lynch and spend a bunch of money to bring Ndingadong Suh in for a 5 year contract

or

Pay Lynch whatever he wants to keep him for another year in hopes that you can ride him back to the super bowl?

Doogles

suh no question. Rbs die hard and though marshawn has another elite year in him, it will happen fast.

unfrozencaveman

Both - let the accountants figure it out

RavennaDawg

Rumor is the Seahawks are thinking of given DangerRuss a smaller ($15ish) per year deal, with every cent guaranteed over the length of the contract. This will give the team a lower cap number then if they go with something like $22.5 with only a couple years guaranteed.

ThomasFremont

Lynch.

Donkey Kong Sue isn't classy. Imagine what he was like before going to a classy as fuck school like Nebraska.

sarktastic

The real equation is something like... Suh? Or Lynch and, and, and, and, and...

dnc

If it's a straight either/or you take Suh without giving it a second thought. Add five years of Suh to the guys you already have locked in on that defense and you're winning more than one more ring.

But as @sarktastic noted, that's not the equation. Suh is going to command Wilson money if not more. Suh means no Wagner extension, no receiving upgrade, no offensive line upgrade, nothing.

I just don't see how it's at all realistic.

RoadDawg55

Straight up Suh, but I would be leery about giving a DT $15-20 million a year. If I could get Hardy at $10-12 million or Suh at $16 million, I'm taking Hardy.

I would take Lynch and Pierre-Paul over Suh too. If Lynch leaves they have to retool the offense and either sign/draft another big time RB or get some better WR/TE's. The OL isn't great either.

Lynch is vital to the team, but he probably only has a year or two left. Lynch is a freak of nature, but it's been proven many times that RB's die hard.

DerekJohnson

It's intriguing to think that Gurley might still be available when the Hawks draft at #31.

CuntWaffle

I really wish this Suh talk just fucking stop. It isn't happening.

Tequilla

At this point we don't know how the cap is going to work out, what Wilson will sign for (and his cap hit), how much the cap is going to go up, or what Suh wants.

To me, the priorities are making sure that you get Wilson and Wagner on board for the long-term as they are the 2 QBs on the team.

Lynch is the heartbeat of the team ... so provided that he wants to play then you lock him in on a deal that makes sense for both sides. He's earned a raise and he's producing accordingly.

My guess is that they don't extend Okung so they need to be forward thinking on plugging that hole - I'm thinking you'll see a couple of OL in the draft to plug in as most likely they'll be losing Carpenter as well.

Obviously they need to find an upgrade at WR if possible, but I don't think that they view it as a priority. They have some internal options.

It wouldn't shock me if they traded Zach Miller in for Jordan Cameron - would give 2 strong receiving options at TE on the roster.

The other big hole is making sure that they adequately backfill Maxwell.

Other than that, most of what they are going to be looking at is finding ways to maximize and improve their depth.

If you can plug Suh in there without massively changing the ability to complete the other items on the to-do list, it's a no brainer.

This is a team that in all reality should be the 2-time defending Super Bowl Champions with the balance of the roster either in their prime or on the way into entering their prime. It's for the most part entirely locked up from a core perspective. This is definitely not a broken situation. The most glaring long-term issue for the roster is to be bled to death with their depth such that when injuries happen they have problems. You could argue that that's what cost them in the Super Bowl.