What Brock Huard makes of latest Seahawks ownership report

Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio shared a new report over the weekend about when the Seattle Seahawks’ ownership sale could take place.

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“The Seahawks got their latest Super Bowl rings on Thursday night. By the time the next season starts, the franchise should have a new owner in place,” Florio wrote. “A source with knowledge of the situation tells Pro Football Talk that a new owner is expected to be in place by September.”

Florio’s report adds more weight from an NFL insider that the estate of Paul Allen could have a sale of the team done in the coming months, as NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said essentially the same last month on The Pat McAfee Show.

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After reading the latest from Florio, Seattle Sports’ Brock Huard said he started asking around to see is there was more to find out.

“I was trying to get some scoop and some details, and it was pretty tight-lipped. But there were enough things said and just kind of rumblings that I would co-sign on that,” said Huard, a longtime FOX football broadcaster and former NFL quarterback, Monday morning on Brock and Salk.

“I think this is not going to play out through the season. You don’t want that.”

Huard added that the Seahawks’ Super Bowl ring celebration last Thursday night seemed like a “final get-together” for the front office under president of football operations John Schneider and current team chair Jody Allen, the sister of Paul Allen who has run the franchise since her brother died in 2018.

“You wanted Thursday night to be the final salvo. And you saw the pictures of Jody, John – you saw John wearing his Paul Allen T-shirt. Like, there it is. There’s our final get-together, Kumbaya, love each other, celebrate, go out in a way that very few have ever gotten to go out on top. And then you want the new owner to come in.”

What’s next for the Seahawks, who finished their offseason program with mandatory minicamp last week?

“Not a lot of football business goes down the next two to three weeks,” Huard said. “It’s actually in the calendar the time for players and staff and coaches and management to get away. And they’re getting away all over the globe. … You come back in mid-July and got a couple weeks to get training camp ready to roll. And yeah, I think you would like this (sale) certainly done before kickoff against the New England Patriots (in Week 1 on Sept. 9).”

Brock Huard answers three football questions in Blue 88 at 7:45 a.m. during each edition of Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk (weekdays 6-10 a.m.).

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