Fans of the Seattle Seahawks watched the team sit on the sidelines of the first wave of free agency, as big name players like Corey Linsley, Kevin Zeitler and Joe Thuney earned big contracts. In contrast, the Seahawks stood by patiently, waiting for the opportunity to find the bargains available after the initial rush to sign the best available players.
For the Hawks, the waiting was in part required as a result of their salary cap issues, and their past reluctance to aggressively borrow from the salary cap of future seasons. However, it appears much of their caution, if not all of it, has been thrown to the wind in recent weeks, with the team progressively getting more and more aggressive in the structure of their contracts.