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Marshawn Lynch yukking it up on the sideline.
“Are you my boss now?” coach Mike Macdonald says on Lumen Field to the retired Seahawk legend.
Derick Hall’s monster truck. Sam Darnold’s spin rate throwing the football. Leonard Williams in his home garden with his wife and their baby, then clowning and throwing autographed footballs. A sledgehammer-holding contest. Locker-room shadowboxing.
Those were the sidelights to the second episode of NFL Films’ Hard Knocks series on the Seahawks training camp. It aired for the first time Tuesday night nationally on HBO.
The highlight of episode two: Documenting the Seahawks’ interest in free-agent cornerback Terrion Arnold. He was the Detroit Lions former first-round draft choice — and their starter until he was arrested this summer. He’s charged with eight felonies related to an alleged kidnapping and armed robbery case in Florida.
The second Hard Knocks episode shows Seahawks general manager John Schneider and coach Mike Macdonald discussing potentially signing Arnold, depending on how his legal proceedings turn out in Tampa, Florida, over the coming weeks and months. Arnold’s felony charges in Florida carry a potential sentence of up to life in prison.
Arnold is free on $1 million bond. The Seahawks had Arnold in for a free-agent tryout on the indoor field at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center Sunday. It was the 23-year-old cornerback’s first visit to Seahawks headquarters.
Monday, Macdonald told Seahawks beat reporters at training camp team leaders were doing their “due diligence” in exploring the possibility of adding Arnold to a cornerback room headlined by three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon, 25 and another first-round pick.
In this week’s Hard Knocks episode series narrator Liev Schreiber says over an overhead shot of Schneider’s office: “No amount of due diligence will spare the team from criticism if he’s offered a contract.”
The scene shows Schneider in his office upstairs inside the Virginia Mason Athletic Center overlooking the practice fields. The camera pans to the white board of the Seahawks’ depth with horizontal magnets for each player’s name on the 90-man preseason roster.
All the printed names are blurred — except for one.
A new magnet with “ARNOLD Terrion CB” is on the board, stuck diagonally, provisionally, immediately left of the list of the team’s right cornerbacks.
That scene is Schneider in his office talking to Joey Schneider, the team’s salary-cap analyst as an assistant to the GM. Their conversation was of the potential outside perception of their team signing Arnold.
“I’m trying to remember, with this Terrion Arnold thing, what would be another controversial signing that’s happened? So we can kind of be like, ‘Oh,...’ Like, understand that situation,” John Scheider asks.
“Situations where someone has an outstanding thing...,” Joey Schneider says.
“Right,” John Schneider says.
“Signing, and or traded for — acquired. Just acquired.”
The next scene is in Macdonald’s office. The GM is telling Macdonald the previous night he, Schneider, had talked to Seahawks third quarterback Jalen Milroe about Arnold. Milroe and Arnold were college teammates at Alabama. Arnold entered the NFL with Detroit in 2024, a year before Milroe entered the league with the Seahawks.
“He loves him,” Schneider told his coach, relaying Milroe’s comments to the GM about Arnold.
Schneider said Milroe related he thinks Seattle and the Seahawks’ culture would be “awesome” for Arnold.
“He said he’s just cool. He’s just like ‘Spoon’ (Seahawks three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon),” Schneider tells Macdonald.
Then Schneider adds: “Joey thinks he is going to be able to play in the preseason.”
That would be while Arnold remains out the $1 million bond in Florida. He has an arraignment hearing in Florida scheduled for Thursday.
The episode ends on the subject of how adding Arnold could upset the unique chemistry and brotherhood Macdonald has forged in two years leading the Seahawks. The players say those qualities are why they won the Super Bowl last season.
Macdonald answered the question on culture fit and Arnold Monday.
“We’re going to do our due diligence,” Macdonald said. “There’s a lot of people in Terrion’s corner that we respect in terms of the type of guy he is. We’re going to work through all of that, and I trust our people to make the best decision for us.
“We also think this is a great place to come work, too, and that people can be the best version of themselves if given the opportunity. Works both ways.”
The final scene of the second episode of Hard Knocks is film of Arnold’s tryout Sunday at Seahawks headquarters. He is running across the field, turning his hips and catching passes. Macdonald and defensive coordinator Aden Durde are shown watching intently, and talking with assistants after the tryout ended.
Newsday reported Tuesday night Arnold has a free-agent visit scheduled for Wednesday at the New York Giants’ facility. He was also reported to have visited the New Orleans Saints this month.
The Seahawks are obviously trying to stay in the front of the line of NFL teams waiting to be able to sign Arnold, if that happens.
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“Are you my boss now?” coach Mike Macdonald says on Lumen Field to the retired Seahawk legend.
Derick Hall’s monster truck. Sam Darnold’s spin rate throwing the football. Leonard Williams in his home garden with his wife and their baby, then clowning and throwing autographed footballs. A sledgehammer-holding contest. Locker-room shadowboxing.
Those were the sidelights to the second episode of NFL Films’ Hard Knocks series on the Seahawks training camp. It aired for the first time Tuesday night nationally on HBO.
The highlight of episode two: Documenting the Seahawks’ interest in free-agent cornerback Terrion Arnold. He was the Detroit Lions former first-round draft choice — and their starter until he was arrested this summer. He’s charged with eight felonies related to an alleged kidnapping and armed robbery case in Florida.
The second Hard Knocks episode shows Seahawks general manager John Schneider and coach Mike Macdonald discussing potentially signing Arnold, depending on how his legal proceedings turn out in Tampa, Florida, over the coming weeks and months. Arnold’s felony charges in Florida carry a potential sentence of up to life in prison.
Arnold is free on $1 million bond. The Seahawks had Arnold in for a free-agent tryout on the indoor field at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center Sunday. It was the 23-year-old cornerback’s first visit to Seahawks headquarters.
Monday, Macdonald told Seahawks beat reporters at training camp team leaders were doing their “due diligence” in exploring the possibility of adding Arnold to a cornerback room headlined by three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon, 25 and another first-round pick.
In this week’s Hard Knocks episode series narrator Liev Schreiber says over an overhead shot of Schneider’s office: “No amount of due diligence will spare the team from criticism if he’s offered a contract.”
The scene shows Schneider in his office upstairs inside the Virginia Mason Athletic Center overlooking the practice fields. The camera pans to the white board of the Seahawks’ depth with horizontal magnets for each player’s name on the 90-man preseason roster.
All the printed names are blurred — except for one.
A new magnet with “ARNOLD Terrion CB” is on the board, stuck diagonally, provisionally, immediately left of the list of the team’s right cornerbacks.
That scene is Schneider in his office talking to Joey Schneider, the team’s salary-cap analyst as an assistant to the GM. Their conversation was of the potential outside perception of their team signing Arnold.
“I’m trying to remember, with this Terrion Arnold thing, what would be another controversial signing that’s happened? So we can kind of be like, ‘Oh,...’ Like, understand that situation,” John Scheider asks.
“Situations where someone has an outstanding thing...,” Joey Schneider says.
“Right,” John Schneider says.
“Signing, and or traded for — acquired. Just acquired.”
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The next scene is in Macdonald’s office. The GM is telling Macdonald the previous night he, Schneider, had talked to Seahawks third quarterback Jalen Milroe about Arnold. Milroe and Arnold were college teammates at Alabama. Arnold entered the NFL with Detroit in 2024, a year before Milroe entered the league with the Seahawks.
“He loves him,” Schneider told his coach, relaying Milroe’s comments to the GM about Arnold.
Schneider said Milroe related he thinks Seattle and the Seahawks’ culture would be “awesome” for Arnold.
“He said he’s just cool. He’s just like ‘Spoon’ (Seahawks three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon),” Schneider tells Macdonald.
Then Schneider adds: “Joey thinks he is going to be able to play in the preseason.”
That would be while Arnold remains out the $1 million bond in Florida. He has an arraignment hearing in Florida scheduled for Thursday.
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The episode ends on the subject of how adding Arnold could upset the unique chemistry and brotherhood Macdonald has forged in two years leading the Seahawks. The players say those qualities are why they won the Super Bowl last season.
Macdonald answered the question on culture fit and Arnold Monday.
“We’re going to do our due diligence,” Macdonald said. “There’s a lot of people in Terrion’s corner that we respect in terms of the type of guy he is. We’re going to work through all of that, and I trust our people to make the best decision for us.
“We also think this is a great place to come work, too, and that people can be the best version of themselves if given the opportunity. Works both ways.”
The final scene of the second episode of Hard Knocks is film of Arnold’s tryout Sunday at Seahawks headquarters. He is running across the field, turning his hips and catching passes. Macdonald and defensive coordinator Aden Durde are shown watching intently, and talking with assistants after the tryout ended.
Newsday reported Tuesday night Arnold has a free-agent visit scheduled for Wednesday at the New York Giants’ facility. He was also reported to have visited the New Orleans Saints this month.
The Seahawks are obviously trying to stay in the front of the line of NFL teams waiting to be able to sign Arnold, if that happens.
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