Seahawks coaching exodus continues as eighth coach leaves Seattle

Call it the Off-Season Massacre, if you like. The Seahawks parted ways with Ricky Manning Jr. today. He is the eighth assistant to leave Seattle.

Whether you want to call the Seahawks coaching changes a massacre depends upon your opinion, of course. You may prefer to see it as spring cleaning. Okay, winter cleaning, but it amounts to the same thing. When your team misses the playoffs for the first time in what seems like forever, things have to change. And *most* coaches are easier to replace than players.

Great coaches aren’t easy to replace, of course. I haven’t heard many people call Darrell Bevell, Tom Cable, or even Kris Richard great. Let alone Ricky Manning Jr., the former assistant…