It turns out Russell Wilson's trade to the Denver Broncos wasn't just about the quarterback's long-simmering issues with coach Pete Carroll.
The Seattle Seahawks also apparently believed they were selling high on a player about to hit his decline.
"So those two things," a source in the Seahawks' front office told Brady Henderson of ESPN. "A declining player and then what the ask was going to be the next time, which would have been his third time. It's like, 'No, let's play really good defense, let's run the s--t out of the ball.