We didn't see that Jimmy Graham in Seattle because they tried to play him like Luke Wilson and Jimmy can't block

Seattle didn't have Brees & Payton. They wanted Graham to block more too which wasn't his strength. Vets on the team called him soft too so he wasn't as appreciated there.

Graham didn't want to block. In a system that wants a run game. I would of kept max unger.

Finally somebody gives Jimmy his flowers

I was livid when that trade happened… everyone at work thought it was so cool… bruh Max Unger was a ALL PRO!!! We couldn’t draft a line to save a life, let alone trade our best one for a Wr/te that didn’t help our rush game… chalk that up to “try and make #3 happy

He was a hybrid. Big like a tight end and fast like a receiver.

Brees and Grahams uncanny connection was one only few of us NFL hyper fans will always remember

Before he got traded Gronk or Graham was an actual question

Seattle should have used him in the slot and WR, not TE. NO used him there 67% of the time

One of the worst trades in my opinion. Max was our center and captain. It wasn’t Russell Wilson kinda of bad trade but wasn’t a good fit.

Losing Max Unger was a massive blunder that set the franchise back for years. So much so, that we still have yet to have found a foundational and structural piece at Center (hopefully Olu can become that guy, but who knows). I personally wanted to draft JMS with our second round pick.

They wanted him to block💀 only after Gerald Everett came they started using receiving tight ends

Jimmy ran ultra lazy routes when he was in seattle and didn't block. Was a horrible trade.

LUUUUUUUKE!!!!!!😂

He had a career ending injury immediately and came back a shell of himself

He was a beast in New Orleans. I mean 9000 yards 87 touchdowns 700 catches ain’t bad numbers boys.

What was crazy is that he still had 2,000 yards and 18 tds in his three years here and that was including his injury that they thought he might have not come back from.

Jimmy Graham in madden 15 is a big reason why I’m a Seahawks fan to this day. Growing up in Canada, I didn’t have a ton of exposure to the NFL until I went to my buddy’s place in middle school and played madden. I chose the hawks cause y’all were either the best or #2 overall team in the league and I remember I’d throw crossers to Jimmy for 5-10 yards all game long.

Jimmy Graham was my first ever Seahawks jersey

If jimmy graham doesn’t get traded to Seattle, Seahawks make another Super Bowl appearance.

Who else remembers his one hand catching him and Baldwin use to pull off 😂❤ those were some good moments

And dude is STILL playing!! Absolute beast. Not quite Gronk or Kelce but waaaaay ahead of just about everyone else. (Not Gonzo, Gates...)

As a Saints fan I totally agree!

Didn't pursue a lot of those jump balls after blowing out the knee. Business decisions

Russell did not throw good jump balls to Jimmy Graham. I specifically remember certain games where it felt like we tried to force feed him, it was not from lack of trying to utilize him, but I don’t know how many times after the play was over, I said, “why can’t Russell get that ball of foot higher? Jimmy can out rebound those guys, why is #3 only getting it where Jimmy only needs to jump 3 inches off the ground to get his hands on it?” Can’t remember how many jump balls I saw defended that Jimmy really didn’t have to jump for, unfortunately either did the defender

For all the skills/attributes that Russ has that makes him special….he cant seem to find anything across the middle and never really used our TE’s

The trade made no sense for either side and it hurt Graham the most

Techno Tuesday graham

body like a greek god 😂😂😂 💀💀 he's not wrong but that was just so weird to hear lol 🤣

No one is better than gronk.... Period

Jimmy was so legit. The fact dude is back in NO again is crazy. Felt a wave of nostalgia and bittersweet happiness seeing him back in a NO jersey.

Good ol' hypotheticals

Pete don’t use tight ends like that. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Unlike new Orleans, we had other weapons that weren't the TE, we had lynch, and a receiver core deeper than you could imagine. Literally every single receiver on that roster was good for at least a few years.

Real talk !! I remember when my saints traded him I wanted to shed tears behind that

That was one of the biggest frustrations in Seahawks history. Oh hey, we just acquired one of the best downfield catching TEs of all time… LETS USE HIM AS A BLOCKER!!! 😳🤯😩🤬

Jimmy still ranks among the very best. Hes top ten in catches,yards and touchdowns among tight ends.

i hope we get so see him shime some more they are so loaded its crazy, that we dont have a good qb

Russ doesn't throw over the middle of the field (career throw% between the numbers), and Jimmy Graham is a TE that thrived between the numbers. He just didn't fit.

Jimmy was a beast, but the Hawks didn't use him

Growing up a Falcons fans y’all are absolutely right bro used to torment us no matter how great the defensive scheming was. I still have ptsd everytime I see him, Reggie bush, mark Ingram, and drew brees 😅😂😂

You didn’t see that J.Graham in Seattle is the same reasons NOBODY saw Moss on the Raiders. Quarterback matters

The reason you didn't see that Jimmy in Seattle was because he had Russell Wilson throwing to him and not Drew Brees, plain and simple.

Jimmy had mad potential when he played for seahawks. But he always dropped the ball when it mattered. And he would always mess up and drop game winning 4th down plays being wide open. And he could not come thru, when it came down to the game pressure. But he is better today because of that and being traded around.

Blocking IS football. It literally wins you the game or loses you the game. To go as far to say that he couldve been the GOAT tight means you either have no idea about football or you chose to ignore Jimmy Grahams deficiencies in blocking. If you watch a Gronk highlight reel you will see insane catches around his laces or something outside anyone elses catch radius, youll see multiple huge catches and runs in big games, play off games. Play off games in superbowl winning runs. The stats will tell you how much offensive production Gronk was responsible for on great teams. It becomes very clear that he was a difference maker. What you wont see on the highlight reels except for that one where he threw the dude out the club.. is how many damn yards he was responsible for by doing his job on the edge of that line. The guy was an absolute coaches dream. When its all said and done i have no doubt Bill will say LT was his best ever, then Brady, then Gronk. But deep down he knows there are Bradys out there, a pass rusher can get doubled, but there has NEVER been a monster like Gronk. You replace Gronk with anyone at all at any time in his career your chance of winning goes down. And he gave his body for his team. Completely maxxed it out. Emptied the tank. No one EVER questioned his heart. Everyone in Seattle called your boy Graham soft. Dude... honestly.

Hilarious since KJ locked him up more times then not when we played the Aints

“And he should’ve been” 💅

Dude was a monster in the red zone

Max Unger for Jimmy Graham was one of, if not the worst trade, during the LOB era. We lost our staple to that O-Line. Unger was HIM

Because he destroyed his knee in 2015 and wasn't the same athletically after

We didn't utilize him enough we tried to make him a hybrid te with the blocking. Russel also seemed to have a problem trusting him to get those jump balls

Should have taken him out on run plays. He was a liability in the run game in a run heavy offense. Knee jerk reaction to losing the super bowl = get the leagues best red zone threat

I agree with Gee, why didn’t we see that in Seattle? My personal question is, what was it that WE weren’t doing that didn’t allow him to be that in Seattle?

Gronk. All day. Only him

Jimmy was him but idk if we would ever have talked about him in the same convo as we talk about Travis or gronk

Jimmy Graham is a receiver. He can’t block doesn’t block. You can’t be one of the greatest TE’s of all time if you can’t even do what separates the position from a WR

We NEVER use our TE's lol.

Yea they didn’t use him properly and that happens a lot…. Sometimes a teams plays and systems work against a player instead of capitalizing on what his strengths are I’ve seen it quite a lot.

Me not realizing it's kj wright

As a saints fan I was so mad we traded him but Max was a great addition for our oline. I doubt we would of acquired talent like Ram, Shon, AK, MT, Marcus if we would of kept Jimmy though

I’m my opinion playing tight end, you number one goal is to protect your quarterback, wall off the outside. He’s a textbook tight end

Whenever you look at Russell Wilson highlights and you see his best play, they are broken down plays where the defensive line is forced to chase 6 seconds after the play breakdown and Wilson he's a ball downfield for someone like Lockett to get up under or Doug Baldwin had to contort his body some weird way in order to make the catch, either way Jimmy G wouldn't be in his line of sight so you wouldn't be at Target

Funnily enough I think Seattle would have gone back to the superbowl if they hadn’t made that trade. Losing Max Unger is what led to that line falling apart and Wilson becoming the most sacked qb in the league for like 5 years straight

I’m still mad about that not once did we see Jimmy running across the field for a monster touchdown? Big catches back to back.

Thanks Seahawks, for getting rid this menace to the NFC South.

This is a prime example of to many fly by night podcasts!

Jimmy did get hella touchdowns with Seattle i believe he was second in the league in tds jist low catches and yards

You two are high as hell 😅

Jimmy Graham vs Seahawks, 3/10 for 7 yds. Next season he gets traded to Seattle for the best center in the league. That trade ended the Seahawks dynasty prematurely.

He wasn't crap after leaving a pass happy offense . Couldn't or wouldn't block.

Heath miller is definitely top 5 at the very least, for me he’s number 2

His time in Seattle just showed how one dimensional he was. Part of being a tight end is blocking. If you can’t block, you can’t be a top tight end of all time. Idc how good of a receiver he was. He couldn’t play half of the role of a tight end.

Jimmy G was a fucking menace on the saints

1.Kittle 2.kelce 3. Graham Niner nation

That injury was also gruesome

He ran into Pete Carroll who thinks he’s coaching in the 50’s. Run, Run,Run.

Everyone forgets Jeremy shockey was that guy before gronk kelce Jimmy

Seattle is notorious for squandering talent.

I was so mad when they refused to use him right. "Lets trade for an excellent receiving TE and then make him block 90% of the time." I don't get how an OC gets to that level being so stupid.

I don't understand it either. Why did Seattle try to make him a traditional tight end? That wasn't how Graham worked. He couldn't block. He should have been a hybrid and played mostly at slot. The Saints understood that. I don't know why the Hawks didn't. But Carroll didn't know how to use him, and Wilson didn't trust him. Too bad, because he could have been amazing.

Wilson couldn't see him over the middle

Seattle didn't know how to use him. You don't waste his talents with blocking. Mind boggling to this day that they struggled to use him right.

todisgrade gronk, gates and tony g is comical on your part

Jimmy was NEVER like that, cmon now🤣🤣

Coming from a saints fan it still pains me that we didnt keep even tho we have him now barely getting passes thrown to him

Former UM TE also

O line died when max unger left

He got bigger, safe and effective…..they said, problems to worry about.

Wasted 7 years of his career just for money in Seattle, Chicago, and Green Bay. Now he's back where he should have always been.

Short vid. Break it down and explain. Cutting through Spiritual Materialism. Ask Pete

it's because that Jimmy Graham wasn't in seattle. Petey told him to gain 30 pounds so he could block the run.

hawks had jimmy graham AND marshawn… one of em had to carry more weight than the other and with the run heavy offense we had there was no chance we were seeing the same jimmy graham from NO.

Maybe one of the best RECEIVING tight ends of all time. Dude’s inability to block takes him down from S to A tier at least.

You didn't see the High performance Jimmy Graham in Seattle is the whole reason he was traded in the first place because he wasn't that Jimmy anymore

Seattles offense lacked creativity and was never very flashy or fast paced. Just not a place for someone like Jimmy. Drew brees always adjusted to best utilize his weapons and Russell Wilson played within his system and was efficient. Jimmy was a threat and should be a focal point for an offense.

Antonio Gates, Rob, Gonzales, Winslow, to start, oh Ditka a HoF TE.

OK, so why didn’t we see that Jimmy Graham in Seattle?

It's because he went from displined to crazy play wise at qb

Always exaggerating the height 😂

Because Pete tried to turn the man into a blocker. He was a pass catcher.