Tag: Steve Hutchinson

Three biggest snubs from BR all-time Vikings roster

Bleacher Report released a list of the Vikings all-time roster. Here are some names who got left out.

Bleacher Report released a list of a Vikings all-time roster for a Madden simulation, and in my opinion, the list was mostly fair.

Fran Tarkenton and Daunte Culpepper are great choices for quarterback, and I’m glad that between the Patriots and the Vikings, Minnesota got Randy Moss on its roster.

However, there were some notable players left off the list, so here are some players that should have made the team.

Guard Steve Hutchinson

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Hutchinson was mostly part of a Vikings era that was good, not great. From Brad Johnson to Donovan McNabb, Hutchinson was a good blocker who often had to deal with poor quarterback play.

However, he was still a guard for Brett Favre, who brought the Vikings to the NFC Championship. He also blocked for the likes of Adrian Peterson and Chester Taylor.

Guard Ed White earned his share of accolades, and even praise from opposing players, but I think Hutchinson and Randall McDaniel, who is on the list, would be unstoppable at guard for an all-time Minnesota team. It’s hard to compare eras, but I think Hutchinson should have gotten the nod over White.

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Matt Hasselbeck: Steve Hutchinson’s best years were in Seattle

Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck stated that Hall of Fame guard Steve Hutchinson’s greatest years were in Seattle.

Former Seattle Seahawks guard Steve Hutchinson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the 2020 class.

Hutchinson originally thought he was receiving a call from the Hall of Fame to tell him that he did not make it in, as he had received several calls telling him so years prior.

“I’m thinking, ‘I’m getting another late [rejection] call,’” Hutchinson said. “As soon as the knock happens, it’s hard to explain. It’s like a weighted vest is taken immediately off your shoulders. That last 10 minutes, it seemed like it was seven hours. It was crazy. I was getting all tight. Then you get the knock and… you start floating. And it’s like, ‘Is this real?’ We all just kind of broke down at once. It’s great. It’s indescribable.”

Hutchinson’s former teammate Matt Hasselbeck believes the guard played his best years in the Emerald City.

“I don’t think – there’s no doubt! His best years were as a Seahawk. I think he made a name for himself as a Seahawk,” Hasselbeck said. “I know he meant more to the Seahawks organization than the other teams that he played for during his career. Steve was an absolute stud on the field, off the field, as well as a leader, tough guy, and helped us have a swagger that we didn’t necessarily have [otherwise].”

Largely due to his tenure with the Seahawks, Hutchinson finally has a spot in Canton.

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Michigan football first-round NFL Draft picks since 2000

Looking back at the Wolverines first-round NFL Draft picks since 2000.

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While the greatest NFL player of all-time is indisputably Tom Brady, who has six Super Bowl rings with the New England Patriots, he was famously a sixth-round NFL Draft pick in the 2000 NFL Draft.

But Michigan is No. 13 of college football institutions with 14 first-round NFL Draft picks since 2000, each with varying levels of success.

WolverinesWire takes a look at all 14 picks with a snippet on their careers in the NFL as well as Ann Arbor.

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Seahawks announce coaching staff changes for 2020 NFL season

The Seattle Seahawks have made a number of changes to their coaching staff ahead of the start of the 2020 NFL season.

The Seattle Seahawks have made a number of changes to their coaching staff ahead of the start of the 2020 NFL season.

Quarterbacks coach, Dave Canales, has been promoted to the title of passing game coordinator and offensive assistant Austin Davis, quarterback Russell Wilson’s backup in 2017, will now serve as the team’s QB coach.

Brennan Carroll, most recently the offensive scheme specialist/assistant offensive line coach, will now be the Seahawks’ run game coordinator.

Secondary coach Nick Sorensen will add nickel specialist to his current duties and former Seattle linebacker Aaron Curry has been promoted to a full-time role as a defensive assistant.

The Seahawks also announced three new members have joined the staff – Sanjay Lal as the senior offensive assistant, Keli’i Kekuewa as an offensive assistant, and Damione Lewis as a defensive assistant.

Finally, former Seahawks offensive lineman, Steve Hutchinson, has been given the role of football consultant on the personnel side of Seattle’s operations.

Assistant defensive line coach Jethro Franklin, who spent the last two years on the staff, will not be returning for the 2020 season.

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Steve Hutchinson: Titans’ Taylor Lewan should stay off Twitter

Lewan didn’t take too long to come up with a response — on a platform none other than Twitter.

Sports and social media don’t always mix.

Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan knows that all too well, having gotten into more than his fair share of back-and-forth scuffles with other players on Twitter.

He’s done well on the field for the team, though, and was a big part of the Titans’ turnaround after he got his act together and stopped committing so many penalties after he returned from suspension.

Former Titans offensive guard Steve Hutchinson is impressed with what Lewan has accomplished, but thinks he needs to keep some of his thoughts he’s posted to social media to himself.

“Athletically, I don’t know if there’s a guy who can touch him,” Hutchinson said, via Titans beat writer Paul Kuharsky. “He’s kind of a freak that way.”

Lewan didn’t take too long to come up with a response — on a platform none other than Twitter.

It was far from the type of aggressiveness we’ve seen him use toward some others in the past, though.

“Appreciate the nice words on the radio show today and also some words you and I both know are true,” Lewan wrote, followed by a string of crying-laughing emojis.

The Titans and Lewan will look to make another run for the Super Bowl — hopefully filled with less social media drama than last season — in 2020.

Former Titan Steve Hutchinson explains possible origin of Tom Brady-MBA rumor

The Tom Brady visiting MBA rumor might have been a case of mistaken identity.

Remember the now-debunked rumor that was going around that Tom Brady and/or his wife Gisele Bunchden were visiting a school in Nashville in January, possibly linking him to the Tennessee Titans?

As it turns out, former Titans guard and Hall of Famer Steve Hutchinson might have been mistaken for Brady when visiting the school for his son’s interview with an administrator that day.

While appearing on The Midday 180 show on Wednesday, Hutchinson explained how he believes it went down.

“So, I’m sitting in the admission’s office with a suit and tie, knowing I had to go right to the event (for the Hall of Fame) when I landed and my son’s in there, so what I think happened was a kid, a student at MBA, had come into the office to see one of the administrators and someone said ‘well you can’t in there, he’s in there with the son of a Hall of Famer.’ That’s the way they described it, I guess, whoever said that. And the kid just, I guess, just thought ‘hey, Tom Brady,’ like first thing that came to mind.”

Hutchinson then went on to say he got a phone call from an agent in Nashville asking him if he was at MBA that day, and it was then Hutchinson discovered that he was mistaken for Brady.

“He said ‘hey, were you by chance at MBA this morning?’ I said ‘yeah,’ he goes, ‘everybody was mistaking you for Tom Brady.'”

While that rumor has since been proven wrong, the Brady to Titans speculation hasn’t stopped, and it will undoubtedly continue until Brady or Tennessee make a decision.

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Jared Allen eligible for Hall of Fame class of 2021

Allen’s 136 career sacks rank 12th in league history, just 1.5 back from Richard Dent and John Randle for 10th.

We learned over the weekend that former Vikings guard Steve Hutchinson will be inducted into the 2020 Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Vikings could have another former great inducted in 2021.

After retiring in 2015, defensive end Jared Allen is eligible to be inducted in 2021 along with players like Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson.

Allen played 12 seasons in the NFL with the Chiefs, Vikings, Bears and Panthers.

He was a five-time Pro Bowler and a four-time All-Pro selection. He twice led the NFL in sacks (15.5 in 2007 and 22 in 2011).

Allen’s 136 career sacks rank 12th in league history, just 1.5 back from Richard Dent and John Randle for 10th.

From 2007-2011, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better pass rusher than Allen was. In those five seasons, he had 77.5 sacks.

The Vikings acquired Allen via the Chiefs in a 2008 draft-day trade. The Vikings gave up picks that ended up being Gosder Cherilus, Jamaal Charles, DaJuan Morgan and Kevin Robinson to acquire him.

Feels like that was worth it.

 

Will the Seattle Seahawks have a Hall of Famer in 2021?

Now that Steve Hutchinson and Edgerrin James are both in, who will be the next Seattle Seahawks player or coach to make the Hall of Fame?

On Saturday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the five modern-era enshrinees in the Class of 2020, and two former Seattle Seahawks — guard Steve Hutchinson and running back Edgerrin James — were among those selected.

Hutchinson becomes the fifth Seahawks draft pick to join the Hall, and he and James are the 11th and 12th players who suited up for the Seahawks to get inducted.

James and Hutchinson were the only two former Seahawks to appear on the 15-man final ballot for the modern-era committee, which makes it harder to predict who will be the team’s next representative in the Hall.

Seattle had six other representatives among the 122 nominees for the Class of 2020: quarterback Dave Krieg; center Ray Donaldson; punter Jeff Feagles; and running backs Shaun Alexander, Ricky Watters and Chris Warren.

However, only Watters advanced to the round of 25 semifinalists, and he was not among the 15 finalists.

Without any former Seahawks expected to join the ballot as newcomers next year, it looks like Watters is the team’s best chance at having a new modern-era Hall of Famer in 2021.

Of course, with Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson locks to get in on their first ballot and Calvin Johnson also up for consideration, it will be an extremely difficult year for Watters or any of the other former Seahawks to get enshrined.

That doesn’t mean they’ll be without a representative, however — both Mike Holmgren and Tom Flores, two former Seattle coaches, will be up for consideration again. It seems far more likely the Seahawks will have a former coach inducted in 2021 rather than a former player.

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WATCH: Steve Hutchinson finds out he’s headed to the Hall of Fame

Hutchsinson received “the knock” to his hotel by Hall of Fame President David Baker.

On Saturday, former Vikings guard Steve Hutchinson found out that he’ll be a member of the 2020 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class.

He certainly deserves it with seven Pro Bowl appearances and five All-Pro appearances.

Hutchsinson received “the knock” to his hotel by Hall of Fame President David Baker. This is the third year that Hutchinson has awaited news like this.

It was clearly an emotional moment for him and his family.

Very cool stuff.