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 Lynchs 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 Oaklands 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 Lynchs 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.
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Oooooooooooh. A Super Bowl pre-match.
Silver and black!!
You are right. Cowboy fan here, but Lynch a very tough runner and, from his commercials, a thug.
That has got to be the dumbest damn thing I have ever read. Good Lord.
Pats v raiders championship game should be interesting football.
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.
>Yeah, baby. If the Raiders find themselves with a first and goal from the one....ha haaaaaaaa. Lynch wont stop until hes hit the wall behind the end zone.
No way the raiders call a pass with Lynch on the 1! Poor stupid hawks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Screw Seattle and that entire complex.
Up the wazzu.
Hard and bloody.
Will the Las Vegas Raiders have him when they play in Vegas?
He may ‘retire’ again by then, 2020................
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