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Seahawks Trade Marshawn Lynch To Raiders
www.seahawks.com ^ | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 12:30 PM PDT | Staff

Posted on 04/27/2017 8:55:45 AM PDT by Red Badger

After a year away from football, running back Marshawn Lynch is coming out of retirement to play for the Oakland Raiders. Because there were years remaining on the contract extension Lynch signed with Seattle two years ago, the Seahawks still controlled Lynch’s rights, so to facilitate Lynch returning to play with his hometown team, the Raiders and Seahawks will swap picks in the 2018 draft, the Raiders announced. The Raiders will receive Lynch and a sixth-round draft choice in 2018 in exchange for Oakland’s fifth-round selection in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Lynch, who the Seahawks acquired in a trade with Buffalo in 2010, became a star and a fan favorite in Seattle, rushing for 1,200 or more yards and double-digit touchdowns for four straight seasons from 2011 to 2014. Lynch, who has rushed for 9,112 yards and 74 touchdowns in his career, earned Pro-Bowl honors in four of his six seasons with the Seahawks and was a first-team All-Pro in 2012 and second-team All-Pro in 2014.

More than stats or awards, what most defined Lynch’s tenure in Seattle is the way he helped the team establish a physical identity in its early years under Pete Carroll and John Schneider. As a young Seahawks team was hitting its stride in 2012, Carroll said of Lynch: "I think he really is the key element to putting this thing together from the attitude perspective at least."

That Lynch wanted his return to happen in Oakland is hardly a surprise. An Oakland native who played his college football at the University of California in nearby Berkeley, Lynch has always had an incredibly strong bond with his hometown.

(Excerpt) Read more at seahawks.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: nfl; oakland; seahawks; seattle
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To: Red Badger

Oooooooooooh. A Super Bowl pre-match.


21 posted on 04/27/2017 9:16:37 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Red Badger

Silver and black!!


22 posted on 04/27/2017 9:17:46 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Gas attacks. Substitute Sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria? How many American lives do you commit)
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To: Haiku Guy

You are right. Cowboy fan here, but Lynch a very tough runner and, from his commercials, a thug.


23 posted on 04/27/2017 9:17:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Haiku Guy

That has got to be the dumbest damn thing I have ever read. Good Lord.


24 posted on 04/27/2017 9:18:59 AM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Pats v raiders championship game should be interesting football.


25 posted on 04/27/2017 9:19:04 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: RedWulf

Yeah, baby. If the Raiders find themselves with a first and goal from the one....ha haaaaaaaa. Lynch won’t stop until he’s hit the wall behind the end zone.


26 posted on 04/27/2017 9:21:57 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

>Yeah, baby. If the Raiders find themselves with a first and goal from the one....ha haaaaaaaa. Lynch won’t stop until he’s hit the wall behind the end zone.

No way the raiders call a pass with Lynch on the 1! Poor stupid hawks.


27 posted on 04/27/2017 9:24:41 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: Texas Eagle
That's all the Seahawks got for Lynch??? What a bunch of suckers.

They moved up a round. If they didn't trade, they would not have had Lynch, and no benefit. Lynch doesn't have much trade value. It was a smart move.

28 posted on 04/27/2017 9:32:35 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Texas Eagle

He’s past his prime and had “retired”. To get anything at all for a guy that didn’t play last year and wasn’t going to play this year ain’t bad.


29 posted on 04/27/2017 9:35:34 AM PDT by discostu (Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
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To: Red Badger

Lynch is 31 years old and been out of football a year. The Raiduhs will be lucky to get 8 mediocre games out of him.


30 posted on 04/27/2017 9:35:54 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Haiku Guy

Of course he doesn’t actually have a good history of punching it in from near the goal line. Trying sure, but not succeeding. Football is a game of deception, give it to the big runningback is obvious and often what the other team is prepped for.


31 posted on 04/27/2017 9:38:55 AM PDT by discostu (Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
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To: Haiku Guy

I think maybe the coaches were sick and tired of Lynch’s crotch grab habit after scoring a touchdown, and figured that short pass would work. As we know, it didn’t and knocked that Buffalo kicker from the top of the the biggest SB choke list.
Just my two cents.


32 posted on 04/27/2017 9:45:56 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: discostu
A year off can produce amazing restorative powers. Plus the motivation of playing for your hometown.

I'm not saying he will play for another ten years. Maybe two. But what a couple of years that's going to be.

'Course, if he wins The Super Bowl next year, it will only be one. He wants to go out on top and erase the stench of that loss to The Patriots.

33 posted on 04/27/2017 9:47:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Year off might help, or not. The good news is the Raiders have a solid QB and receiving corp so they don’t need him to be the majority of the offense, he’ll be there to round out the offense, and make their play action actually believable. It’s a good pickup for the Raider. But also a good trade for the Seahawks since he wasn’t going to play for them anyway.


34 posted on 04/27/2017 9:54:34 AM PDT by discostu (Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
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To: Haiku Guy

You are right!...That was the dumbest play calling I have ever seen! They had a lock on the super bowl win and pulled a Gilligan at the one yard line!


35 posted on 04/27/2017 10:11:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Red Badger

Heard on the radio that when the Raiders go to Vegas they
go without Lynch in 2020. He’ll be pushing mid 30s
territory so he isn’t likely to be thinking about playing
then anyway.


36 posted on 04/27/2017 10:15:43 AM PDT by Sivad (Don't believe in ' /s ' tags)
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To: Red Badger

Screw Seattle and that entire complex.
Up the wazzu.
Hard and bloody.


37 posted on 04/27/2017 10:56:37 AM PDT by clbiel (Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being decapitated)
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To: Red Badger

Will the Las Vegas Raiders have him when they play in Vegas?


38 posted on 04/27/2017 2:11:24 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: ConservaTeen

He may ‘retire’ again by then, 2020................


39 posted on 04/27/2017 2:18:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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