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Seahawks Replay Booth: Examining Jimmy Graham's role as a blocker in the Seattle offense

"Blocking is an attitude."

This is something that Hall of Famer Warren Moon said Tuesday afternoon on Danny, Dave, and Moore's show on 710 ESPN when asked about Jimmy Graham's blocking with the Seahawks. Former NFL linebacker Dave Wyman had observed that there were a few instances where Graham looked disinterested in the blocking game, and Jim Moore wondered aloud if the Seahawks should consider just using the elite tight end as a pure "receiver" in the Seattle offense.

Moon disagreed with that notion, pointing out that making Graham a pure receiver would negate the benefit inherent to the tight end position, where run vs.