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Terrion Arnold’s First Seahawks Job Is Attending Meetings
Terrion Arnold has not actually signed with Seattle yet, and when he does, he will not be permitted to practice or play. NFL Network reported Tuesday that Arnold goes on the commissioner’s exempt list the moment the contract becomes official. He can sit in meetings. He gets paid. He doesn’t count against the 53. That is the entire job description.
The Seahawks still plan to sign him, per the report, but are working through the timing and “it will take a while.” A league spokesman had no comment other than that the matter remains under review. Arnold faces eight felony counts stemming from a February incident in Tampa, has pleaded not guilty, and is scheduled for an in-person court appearance in Florida in October.
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Felony counts pending against Arnold in Florida. He has pleaded not guilty and denied involvement.
Tuesday night, HBO aired the part that got him here. Schneider called Nick Saban, who told him he likened Arnold’s character to Jalen Milroe’s. He talked to Richard Sherman, who thought Arnold would fit. He talked to Robbie Ouzts, who played with Arnold in college. He rewatched the 2024 combine interview and called it one of the best the team has ever had. He also admitted he probably would have released Arnold too, in Detroit’s position, and then said Seattle could be the second chance. Arnold’s agent told him seven other teams were interested.
So the roster math is clean and nothing else is. Seattle isn’t spending a spot. It’s spending money on a cornerback who isn’t allowed on the grass, a week out from the vote that hands this franchise to new owners. Whatever this is, it isn’t a football transaction yet, and pretending otherwise does nobody any favors.
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He can sit in meetings. He gets paid. That is the entire job description.
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Price Is Back In Pads, And Nashville Is The Test
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Gregg Bell of the News Tribune thinks he’s back on track to be the lead back for the opener. The unofficial depth chart still reads George Holani first. Both of those things can sit on the page at once, because the tiebreaker was never talent, it was availability, and until this week Price hadn’t put two full days together since Aug. 7.
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The tiebreaker was never talent, it was availability.
Now the team goes on the road. Seattle flies to Nashville later this week for a joint practice with the Titans before Sunday’s game at Nissan Stadium, the third straight summer Macdonald has hauled everybody somewhere else to hit somebody else. The trip comes with team meals, no distractions from home, and a rookie talent show.
Cuts land Aug. 30. Friday is the last real evaluation most of this roster gets against a different colored jersey with nobody keeping score.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Monday’s session was originally scheduled as a walkthrough and turned into an aggressive full practice instead. Macdonald says the change was planned a week in advance. Sure it was. The 17-7 scoreline had absolutely nothing to do with anything. SI
Abraham Lucas and offensive line coach John Benton bonded over heavy metal and sat down to assign metal theme songs to teammates and coaches. Somewhere on this staff a position coach now has a walk-up song he did not choose, and I need to know whose it is. Emerald City Spectrum
Sam Darnold spent a chunk of Tuesday’s episode explaining how valuable Montorie Foster Jr. is to the backup quarterbacks, and Grey Zabel looked genuinely startled by him in a drill. Foster caught the only touchdown Seattle managed Saturday. Bubble players do not usually get character witnesses. Yahoo Sports
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
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Puka Nacua went on a podcast, was asked who he actually has hostility toward, and said he hates everybody on the Seahawks before singling out Julian Love by pretending he wasn’t sure of the name. Fine. That’s the job. The same conversation also produced the detail that at a party this year he walked into a glass window pane, noted that three other people hit it too, and conceded that he was the only one who ended up bleeding. Christmas Day is going to be a long afternoon for somebody.
NINERS
Christian McCaffrey missed San Francisco’s joint practice with the Chargers on Tuesday, still working through what Kyle Shanahan is calling tightness. Shanahan went out of his way to rule out any contract dispute and added that if it weren’t Christian, and if it were a game week, he’d have played. Read that sentence twice. The 49ers have built an entire injury vocabulary and the dictionary is getting thicker every August.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
This undrafted receiver out of Washington was targeted on four interceptions in the 2014 NFC Championship Game, then caught a 35-yard walk-off touchdown in overtime that was his only reception of the day. Who is he?
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Jermaine Kearse. Russell Wilson kept throwing at him all afternoon and kept getting punished for it, right up until the throw that sent Seattle back to the Super Bowl on a 28-22 win.
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Nashville later this week. Finally, somebody else to hit. — The Rooster