Option 1:

It normally is an honour to be given the responsibility of making your team's first pick in the draft. It's something generally reserved for the upper echelons of a franchise's people - the team captains, the superstar forwards, the talisman who plays in goal, players with their jersey numbers retired - so Simo was perhaps mildly surprised to be tapped up for it. "Why me?"

"We like the culture that all you new kids are bringing to the table but what we really want is a bit more...what's the word, Brad?"

"Aggression? Violence? Bloodthirst?"

"Well, yes, all of those, but the one I'm thinking of. Accountability!"

"Ah, right, right. Me and Chuck were talking this over, Simo, and I remembered the awesome piece you did for the Players' Tribune a couple of years back."

"Exactly, and that's the attitude we want to instil. It's one thing for a player to push themselves hard but we want our players to push each other just as hard, and we think you'd be perfect to get that message across."

"So when you get up there, we want to make the pick but also hammer home that the days of Seattle being a pushover are gone."

"..."

"You can do that, right?"

"...you want me to threaten the newest pick with violence if they don't perform?"

"...well, not quite that openly."

"But yes."

"..."

"..."

"...alright."