Baldwin knows more hard work necessary
--Undrafted rookie free agent Doug Baldwin led the Seahawks in receiving in his first year in the league, finishing with 51 receptions for 788 yards and four touchdowns.
But the Stanford product is taking nothing for granted, calling his production just an average year for a receiver in the NFL.
Baldwin stayed behind to work out at the team's facility in January and February, along with players like offensive guard John Moffitt, linebacker Matt McCoy and receiver Mike Williams - all still rehabbing injuries in order to get a jump on the 2012 season.
A native of Pensacola, Fla., Baldwin said he intends to get back home to see his family in a few weeks.
"I felt like If I was to go anywhere else - to go home or to go to Stanford - that there would be too many distractions for me, rather than focusing on working out and getting better," Baldwin said. "For instance, if I go home I know there's a whole bunch of people that want to hang out with me and spend time with me, family that I haven't seen in a long time. And that will all happen in due time.
"But for right now I felt like there were a lot of things I wanted to get done to end this past season."
--The Seahawks' offseason workout program begins April 16. The Seahawks will have a rookie minicamp from May 11-13, followed by the beginning of OTAs on May 22.
Seattle has a mandatory minicamp from June 12-14, with the conclusion of the team's offseason program on June 15.
--Former Seahawks defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy, recently elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, flew to Seattle to say thank you to people within the organization that helped him get to Canton.
Kennedy had lunch with several media members that covered the team when he played for Seattle, and also stopped by the team's headquarters to talk with some of the former employees.
"I'm very humbled getting into the Hall of Fame," Kennedy said. "It means a lot. And I always say it means a lot to the Seahawks organization and the Seahawks fans. That's what it's all about."
--The Seahawks recently filed preliminary paperwork in response to an inquiry by the league sent out to northern cities about the possibility of hosting a Super Bowl in the future.
The filing is considered an early step in the process by the team before being asked to submit a formal proposal to the Super Bowl Advisory Committee to host a Super Bowl.
And the Seahawks likely aren't the only northern city to show interest, as Washington, Denver, New England, Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit are other northern markets that would likely want to be in the conversation for hosting a Super Bowl.
Add to that group the fact San Francisco, San Diego and Minnesota are working on securing funding to build new or remodeled stadiums - along with the NFL's recent tradition of offering Super Bowls to cities that build new stadiums - and Seattle likely has an uphill climb of hosting a Super Bowl in the foreseeable future.
Currently, the next three Super Bowl sites are spoken for, with New Orleans hosting in 2013, the Meadowlands in New Jersey in 2014, and Glendale, Arizona in 2015.
The Seahawks will be closely monitoring how the Super Bowl works out in the New York/New Jersey region in 2014 because it's an open air stadium in a traditionally cold area of the country.
QUOTE TO NOTE
"The Super Bowl just ended. So those guys have been on the field working this entire time. And they didn't take any time off, so why would I." -- WR Doug Baldwin, when asked why he has continued to work out at the team's facility before the offseason program begins for the Seahawks in April
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