Brady Henderson reports on the release of Bobby Wagner and what it means for the team. The song is called "1:27."
Pete Carroll and John Schneider apologized for the way they handled Bobby Wagner's release, saying they regret how the defensive captain learned of the team's plans to move on.
Last Friday, he wrote on his account, "Crazy part about all this." I played there for 10 years and didn't hear from them that I wasn't coming back.
The news that the Seahawks had informed him he was being released came three days later. He was told by the Seahawks that he was being released. But he was aware of the plan already.
Schneider and Carroll spoke to reporters for the first time since the scouting combine after being asked about the incident.
That is on me. Schneider said that he owned that.
Schneider said that it really is on him. I wish I could have communicated better. I owe it to him. The organization owes it to him.
Schneider said that the complicating factor was that Wagner is his own agent. Richard Sherman and Russell Okung were both in Seattle.
Schneider said it was awkward when a player represented himself. To say there may be a possible trade. Would you consider this, and then the player comes back to you? I wish I would have handled it differently.
It was not certain all along that the Seahawks would move on from Wagner. At the NFL combine, he mentioned that he expected Wagner to stay in Seattle, but also that there was uncertainty about his future.
The reports on the trade of Russell Wilson and the release of Wagner were published on March 8.
I am guilty as well because I didn't want it to happen. When Russell's news went out, everything hit the fan kind of thing. We were supposed to meet with Bobby a few days after that, but the timing just didn't work out. I regret that we did not do a better job timing wise.
I don't know how he heard it. The suggestions were out because your articles were all over the internet about the possibility of Wagner being released. It is a hard deal. It is really hard.
He is one of the most decorated players in the history of the team. He has been named to the Pro Bowl in each of the past eight seasons, earned first-team All-Pro honors six times and was the last remaining star player from the Legion of Boom defense.
Schneider said that they did speak with him. We talked to him. We went through things. It wasn't like we didn't talk to him. It was just the right time.
The salary-cap space was cleared by the release of Wagner. He was going to make that much in the last year of his contract. Schneider wouldn't say if he was offered the chance to return for less money. When asked if there was another option for him to stay in Seattle other than playing out his contract, he seemed to signal that there was no such offer.
Schneider said no.
Schneider said that players who represent themselves don't have an agent.
He said he would be talking to as many agents as he could. I am not going down that road. There is a certain buffer that goes on when you have an agent. From a communication standpoint, we owe him a lot of respect.
He is a free agent for the first time in his career.
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