Based on what we heard Wednesday, it sure seems like Kam Chancellor and the Seahawks have a chance to settle their differences fairly soon.

To hear Chancellor tell it (through NFL Network's Dan Hellie), he has gotten the Seahawks to capitulate in the amount of $3.1 million. But he apparently thinks they are being "petty" by withholding the last $900,000 he wants.

He says he has met the team halfway and the holdout should be over by now, but it sounds like the team has met him 75 percent of the way and he is not interested in moving the final quarter. So who is really being petty?

On NFL Network and 710 ESPN, Hellie said Chancellor is not asking for any new money but wants $4 million pulled from 2017 to 2016. That would bump his 2016 salary from $5.1 million to $9.1 million while dropping his 2017 salary from $6.8 million to $2.8 million.

Of course, he would then want to talk extension before 2017. That would mean three contract negotiations in five years. Is he serious?

Chancellor, 27, told Hellie he didn't want to wait until he was almost 30 to rework his contract -- he obviously knows his constitution won't last much longer -- but he obviously won't be able to avoid redoing his deal again in two years using this approach.

Hellie's revelations make many people wonder why in the world Chancellor is making a big deal out of his 2016 salary now -- rather than wait until next offseason. Well, it might be that he started out seeking changes to this season and was told the team would not do anything this year.

Earlier reports indicated (1) he wanted most of his $4.55 million this year and $5.1 million next year guaranteed in an extension and (2) the team had offered to guarantee some of next year's salary while waiving 70 percent of his fines (about to hit $1.5 million).

If those reports were both true, Chancellor is apparently saying he has gotten the team to budge on next year. In addition, Davis Hsu of Field Gulls (source of No. 2 above) reported that the Hawks have offered to bump the 2016 guarantee to as much as $6 million.

Basically, it sounds like the Hawks have decided to treat the heart and soul of their defense as well as they treated the heartbeat of their offense, Marshawn Lynch, last year -- i.e., moving existing money forward while not altering the total value of the deal.

If they really have offered that much, they are doing so knowing it will affect their 2016 salary cap, which is already really tight.

Per Hellie, Chancellor told the team in April that he wanted a raise. He apparently felt like he took a discount deal in 2013 -- which is contrary to what most of us thought. He was coming off an injury-plagued 2012 season and the Hawks paid him $7 million a year, which was top of the market for safeties at the time. He is still at the top of the strong safety market, but he obviously is trying to hold the franchise hostage using his power as the No. 1 leader on defense.

The Hawks apparently have conceded his point, if they have indeed offered to bump his 2016 salary by 60 percent -- knowing they will have to do this again in 2017.

And it's easy to get why Pete Carroll is frustrated that Chancellor is still not in.

“I am disappointed in this, very much so," Carroll said after practice Wednesday. "I think everybody should be, ’cause he’s been a great part of our team. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this and he’s not here.”

Chancellor calling the Hawks "petty" probably won't help stalled negotiations; but, if the difference is indeed a mere $900,000, it's hard to imagine this not getting resolved in the next week or so.

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