Hot Stove League - Seahawks Beat

As pitchers and catchers report, a few gridiron notes from my gin-stained typewriter:

• Here is your coaching staff (go Kippy!).  Ken Norton Jr. at linebacker coach ensures 10th-level badassness on the defensive side of the ball, and should be a positive force in helping Aaron Curry develop into the insane mutant skullcrusher we all know he can be.
• Kerney isn't quitting.
• New punter...from USC.
• DRAFT:  6th and 14th picks in the first round - may I suggest, oh, I don't know... left tackle and quarterback?  Walter Jones has retired.  Hasselbeck is a free agent in 2011.  Hasselbeck had disappointing performances in '08 and '09 after "comeback" 2007.  He's over 30 and been mediocre three of the past four years: it's time for change.
• Rumor has it Carroll wants Leinart.  Leinart's salary triples to $7 mm a year in 2011 - if the Cardinals decide to keep him.  If they don't love him, that gives them seven million reasons to move on.  Carroll, who coached him at USC, thinks he can play.
• And there's the Reggie Bush thing.
• Pete Carroll is meeting NCAA investigators this week.  He doesn't have to.  But that's the kind of accountability he stands for.
• And we can all breathe a sigh of relief that Lane Kiffin was able to hold together the recruiting class Carroll left behind.