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Would you let Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch babysit your kids? Teammate Fred Jackson wouldn’t

Fred Jackson has been friends with Marshawn Lynch for years, but is skeptical of his babysitting skills. (AP)

Veteran running back Fred Jackson joined the Seahawks this offseason for two reasons: To join a team with legitimate Super Bowl aspirations, and to play alongside his close friend Marshawn Lynch.

But is he good enough friends with Lynch to let Beast Mode babysit his kids, like Lynch’s former teammate Michael Robinson did?

“He’s a great dude, I love having him around my kids, but would I let him babysit them? No,” Jackson said on 710 ESPN Seattle’s “The Huddle.” “I’d come back and they’ll still be up at whatever – if it’s 1 o’clock the morning, they will be up watching TV with candy in both hands and drinking all the juice, or whatever it might be. He’s the type, he’s gonna give them whatever they want.”

The scenario hasn’t come up yet one way or another, as Jackson’s four kids are in school back in Buffalo, where the backfield duo first played together.

The fun-loving Skittles-monster used to babysit for former Seahawks teammate Robinson when the fullback would go on date-nights with his wife. There’s even a story of Lynch holding one of Robinson’s kids by the ankle upside down in the locker room.

“Marshawn is a kid to me,” Jackson said. “He is like one of my kids and that’s what I tell him.”

When Jackson finally hangs up his cleats, the 34-year-old said he will move near his family in Iowa, where he went to college and played indoor football before making it to the NFL.

“I bought some land out there, my twin brother is still out there and my wife’s brother is out there where we are building our house,” he said. “There are 11 kids between the three of us.”

When asked if he plans to farm in retirement, he responded emphatically: “No. I had a chance to detassel one time and I was like, yeah, this isn’t for me.”

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