The Seattle Seahawks and wide receiver Sidney Rice have agreed on a one-year deal that will put Rice back with the Super Bowl Champs in their quest for a repeat.
Rice sat out half of last year’s season with a torn ACL and was released by the Seahawks back in February. His release freed up around $7.3 million of the team’s salary cap.
The excitement of Rice’s return as a Seahawk was summed up by a single-word tweet from quarterback Russel Wilson which simply said, “YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!”
The Hawks have a great run game and even though their receiving team last year was referred to by some as “pedestrian,” if Rice and Percy Harvin remain healthy, this team may have a very good chance of walking right back to the Super Bowl.
Rice was in New York visiting with the Jets when he accepted the deal with Seattle.
It is unknown if Rice will head down to the California Coast to join quarterback Russell Wilson and the rest of Seattle’s offense who are working out and practicing together just like they did prior to last season. The offense squad will work on their own, without coaches or media, to become faster and stronger and to continue to build on their strong band of brotherhood that took them to the big show last season.
The fact that Seahawks players continue to work together during the off season is very telling of the words that Coach Pete Carroll, who recently received a three-year contract extension keeping him in Seattle through 2017, has been preaching all along, “The separation is in the preparation. “
Carroll’s philosophy has been successful for Seattle since he left USC to take on the head coaching position for the Seahawks in 2010.
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