While reports broke on Thursday of two groups of buyers preparing bids to buy the Seattle Seahawks, overall interest in the team is regarded as “soft,” according to a report Friday morning from ESPN. The story reported that “the franchise hasn’t generated the interest the NFL hoped for.” “It’s soft,” a team owner is reported to have said to ESPN of the market for the Seahawks. Another “executive” contrasted it to the markets for the last two NFL teams that sold, the Broncos and Commanders, and said “there isn’t as much action as there was with Denver and Washington.” The story quoted another as saying the pool of buyers is “small.” ESPN — the company recently bought the league-run NFL Network — noted in the story that the situation with the Seahawks is “fluid.” ESPN noted that there was a general expectation when the Seahawks were placed on sale on Feb. 18 that the team would net the highest price ever for an American sports franchise and that it’s possible that may not happen.…