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Seattle Seahawks: Media Day

The craziest thing that was taken away from the NFL’s media day on Tuesday is that the league threatened to fine Marshawn Lynch a half a million dollars if he did not participate. The other thing is that the Seattle Seahawks are an old school football team, especially on defense.

First, as most people think that Marshawn Lynch’s interviews are ridiculous, I would have to say they are brilliant. Finally someone is sticking it to the media, you know the people that write their thoughts and use clips of any interview to make it sound however they want. Ok not all of them do that but why even chance it. Some people don’t care, but with Lynch, people aren’t going to make him look stupid again. Everyone now suffers and some don’t like it. That was very apparent when a reporter asked him “Why are you being a jerk?” Lets be honest, as stupid as the media makes him look, he did go to Cal for 3 years.

We all know that Lynch is not the role model that we want our kids to look up to, he has been fined each of the last two games for inappropriate gestures after scoring, but what is the difference between not saying anything to the media and saying the same thing over and over again? He doesn’t get fined. One thing you can’t deny is that Lynch is loved by his teammates. You can call it Beast Mode or something else, but next time Lynch starts to put defenders on their backs, take a look at the Seahawk’s sideline. You will see that the swag starts with Lynch and quickly carries to both sides of the ball.

You can call it momentum, or being confident, or swag if you want, when the Seahawks defense gets on a roll it is very hard to do anything on them. Being confident and outspoken might not be as popular in today’s softer National Football League, but in the golden days of the league, it was all about the swag and championships usually followed. Look at the best defenses in NFL history, the legendary No-Name defense of the 1972 Dolphins went undefeated. The nasty defense of the 1985 Chicago Bears won a championship. Ronnie Lott and company sent people out on stretchers in San Francisco in the late 1980’s. Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens dominated the league in 2000. Warren Sapp’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers made opponents pay for showing up on Sunday during the 2002 season. Now the Seattle Seahawks are very similar to all of these dominating teams. The one thing that makes them all similar, they make you fear being hit and they let you know just how good they are. It is nothing new to football, it just looks bad during a time that hard hits and trash talk is looked down on.

One thing will be certain Sunday, the Seahawks defense will show up ready to play and if that swag carries over from the second half of the Packers game, the Super Bowl will not be that entertaining.

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