RENTON, Wash. -- Not even the ever-hopeful Pete Carroll imagined the Seattle Seahawks' swap of pass-rushers working out as well as it did when they traded Frank Clark in April. He was only kidding when he answered otherwise.
"Oh, sure. I had this totally in mind," Carroll said Wednesday, trying to keep a straight face. "I had this one wired, yeah. Not exactly, no. No, I couldn't. Maybe John was the dreamer at that time that thought that something could come."
Indeed, maybe the only person who could have envisioned the Seahawks replacing Clark with Ziggy Ansah and Jadeveon Clowney -- at discount prices, no less -- was the man who pulled it all off: general manager John Schneider.