Former Seattle Seahawks WR Golden Tate said the offer from the team to attempt to re-sign him was ‘laughable,’ and he ended up inking a five-year, $31 million deal with the Detroit Lions. ‘I didn’t mean a 40 percent discount,’ Tate said. ‘I’m going to earn in one year at Detroit what Seattle was going to pay me for two years. Seattle offered numbers that were laughable. I thought, ‘I’ve given you everything and this is what you give me?’

Footballguys View: The Seahawks were simply being true to Tate’s tactical value. Doug Baldwin, Percy Harvin, and Jermaine Kearse all overlap with Tate’s skillset in some way, so retaining him was not essential.
Seahawks | Offer to Golden Tate was laughable