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Brock: There’s no apathy in Seahawks locker room
Oct 19, 2015, 2:35 PM | Updated: 4:06 pm
Seattle has a 2-4 record after blowing a big fourth quarter lead for the second consecutive game. The Seahawks have reached consecutive Super Bowls, but have also seen many of their top players sign lucrative contract extensions.
Brock Huard was a part of a few less than great teams during his six-year stint in the NFL. And when things went bad, it was obvious by the apathy in the post-game locker room.
As rough as the start to the season has been for the Seattle Seahawks, Huard told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson that a lack of passion is not one of Seattle’s concerns.
“You know what they didn’t do, Dori?” Brock asked. “They didn’t just get in their Benz and drive away. That’d been the scariest sign to me Sunday, if I’d have heard those guys cleared out and they were gone. Because that’s what typically happens on losing teams around the NFL, once it starts to go the wrong way.”
Seattle has a 2-4 record after blowing a big fourth quarter lead for the second consecutive game. The Seahawks have reached consecutive Super Bowls, but have also seen many of their top players sign lucrative contract extensions.
Dori said there is a tough question that he and Brock can’t easily ask Pete Carroll or the players, and that’s whether the money has gone to their heads. Dori asked whether some of the Seahawks would rather be the highest paid players and on a mediocre team, rather than hungry, striving for a big contract and Super Bowl championship.
“Because it’s tough, it is really tough once you get paid to keep up that level of intensity that you need to win at this level,” Dori said.
Brock referenced long-time college coach Steve Spurrier, who resigned from his post at South Carolina earlier this month after the team started the season 2-4.
“You know what (some people) do? They up and Spurrier — they’re out,” Brock said. “I’m just leaving this deal and I’m gonna do my thing on my terms and I’m gonna do (ESPN’s College Football) Game Day, but I’m gonna leave you guys behind. I’ve been around that, I have seen that. And had enough friends in enough places in the league, they get in their cars and they’d leave.”
Brock was not in the locker room on Sunday, but there were reports that the Seahawks’ vaunted “Legion of Boom” sat in the locker room and talked through the issues that led to the infamous last minute touchdown pass. Safety Kam Chancellor, who held out the first two games of the season for a more lucrative contract, is among the Boomers. Brock had a pretty good idea of what the conversation might have sounded like.
“You know what they did, for an hour in the locker room post game?” Brock said. “(They) looked at each other and figured it out between Kam and between Earl and between Sherm and… said, this is embarrassing, so I don’t care about our bank accounts.
“We keep thinking we need to pay this guy and pay that guy and I’m underpaid — not at 2-4 you’re not,” he added. “It zips all that conversation, nips it all in the bud.”
