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Seahawks All-Time Fantasy Draft (20)

With the 20th overall pick in the first ever Seahawks All-Time Fantasy Draft, the Skid Row Sliders select...

Shawn Springs, Ohio State

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Springs was ever that most underappreciated player, the true cover corner. People: fans, coaches and commentators love the pick, but though Springs tallied a glossy 12 over his 2nd and 3rd seasons, ball-hawking was never Springs game. No, Springs dominated like KGB: The unseen hand that quietly disappeared opposing receivers.

Even in the emerging world of modern football analysis, "cover" is among the hardest to qualify abilities. Coverage is about time. Eventually, all coverage breaks down, but good cover buys the pass rush time, making a hustle and motor pass rush work (See: the 2007 Seahawks). Good cover frees personnel, when Seattle matched Marcus Trufant with Kelly Herndon, Trufant’s ability to adequately play single coverage allowed the Hawks to shift zones right or assign a second DB to Herndon’s assignment. Sometimes it seemed Trufant was getting torched, but his failings were often just evidence of Herndon’s inadequacies.

For 11 seasons, 6 with Seattle, Springs has quietly done DB dirty work. Locking hips, running astride and doing everything he can to avoid airtime.

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By avoiding airtime, you must mean during the game

Because Shawn Springs never avoids airtime.

"Hey, guess what? Nobody cares who would win in a crazy fantasy fist-fight between Anne Frank and Lizzie Borden." The Monarch

by crushedoptimist on Jul 14, 2008 12:03 PM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

A quick Shawn Springs story…

Back when I first started dating my wife, she thought it was weird that I didn’t want to wear my Shawn Springs jersey in Columbus. My reasoning was that people would assume I was just a big Ohio State fan, not a Seahawks fan. She scoffed at this, but when she wore my Springs jersey to a game at Cleveland, she was spared the abuse I received more than one mouth-breathing Browns fan said some variation of “oh, that’s ok… Shawn Springs is a Buckeye!”

O-H-I-O!

Is it bad that my favorite Shawn Springs memory is Hasselbeck out running him to the end zone in the 2005 Divisional playoffs?

by DKSB on Jul 14, 2008 12:16 PM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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