The Calm Before the Storm

At five o'clock today, John Schneider and Pete Carroll will begin their third draft together.  Well, not precisely at five, since holding the twelfth overall pick means the Seahawks probably won’t go on the clock until six thirty or so, but you know what I mean. And at this point, that’s the sum total of what everyone without access to Seattle’s draft room knows for sure. I’m not too proud to admit that the one and only draft choice made by the Seahawks in the last two years that I predicted correctly was their top choice in the 2010 draft, Russell Okung.  If I wanted to be nice I could also give myself partial credit for suspecting that they might pick Earl Thomas over Taylor Mays with their other first round pick that year, but that would still leave me with an abysmal record of 1.5 correct predictions and 16.5 incorrects and I-don’t-knows.  Percentage-wise, that means I’ve been right just 8.3% of the time, and there’s not a bell curve in the world generous enough to make th...