I was a little suprised at this as well. I think its a good move on Seattle's part. With Sanfran expressing that they are going to be a running team, Arizona is going to try and develop a running game, and St. Louie having Steven Jackson, forces the Hawks to gets some run stuffers in the middle. Brandon Mebane is becoming an awesome force and now add two veteran run stuffers (Cole and Redding) to the middle. I think it just might be the ticket to force teams to run to the outside where our zippy linebackers and corners can light up the running back. I will miss JP, had a couple of great seasons for us, but as far as linebackers go, he was getting a little long in the tooth. I agree that the hawks should draft one of the stud LBs in the first round. We do need to get Walts heir apparent trained and ready to go though.