It's Official: Seahawks Announce Carroll As Head Coach

I hope some of the rumors of his staff are true. We not only need a good coach but good people around him. Lets get them in place and a new GM so they can start evaluating what we have and what we need to start getting this team headed in the right direction. It will be an interesting next few months.

It seems that we should hear about the GM by the end of the week or early next week? Very excited about Carroll as head coach only and all the GM candidates seem very qualified. Bright times ahead.

Then so be it. Norton Anti-Suckus (it’s a stretch, I know) should mold Curry well.

is that while him not being the president is a good thing, it’s also indicative of bad things. I guess I should just look at it as Leiweke is the guy in charge of both the coach and the GM, but will this enable an undercutting of one or the other’s authority a bit by one not being the choice of the other? Like if If we brought in a prez, who kept Mora. Mora would be a bit of a lame duck, right? So what happens with this?

It’s also indicative of a rather hamfisted handling of everything. Firing the coach a little late, but premature with no president or GM in place. And then hiring Carroll, not rushed but premature if we’re still going to get a prez and GM.

Or are we only going to hire a GM? I don’t know. With Carroll being a bit of a gamble, and appreciating the flatter and fuller org structure than having one guy with all the titles calling all the shots, I can understand why you guys are thankful that he’s not also the president. But really, his not being the president creates more baggage for the hire since the cart was put a little before the horse with the front office not solidified yet.

What do we call him now? The Duke of Seattle? The Viscount of Renton?

The problem with Carroll is I really don’t see what he brings new to the table as a NFL coach. This can really become an unmitigated disaster — especially if don’t select the right General Manager.

I’m not sure what I think until I start seeing W’s or L’s. But here’s a couple thoughts I’ve had:

1. Pete Carroll’s USC decade of dominance took place since his humbling banishment from the NFL ten years ago. So maybe this means he’s older and wiser (a Seattle Times story suggests he’s aware of several things he could have done better in the NFL).

2. The declining win totals at New England following the Pats’ Super Bowl appearance don’t tell us much unless we establish that the Pats weren’t suffering from “built to win last year” syndrome. Per Lawyer Milloy (or was it Bledsoe?) in that Times story, the Pats had a run of bad luck with draft pick busts around that time, too. The long slow decline has been the Seahawks’ trajectory since SB XL, too, and personnel is definitely part of the story. (So here’s to getting a great GM!)

You’ve just guaranteed us nationally televised games and some serious media coverage. Don’t blow it.

not “Coach/GM/President Carroll.”

http://sea.scout.com/2/936935.html

He got tired of hearing the Trojan fight song for the past decade

I bet by training camp Carroll will have the local media eating out of his hands and sleeping at his feet.

Carroll is just a guy that emanates joy and enthusiasm. He’s like a kid out there. Hope it works out for the very best.

“I can’t build a offense around this”

I was told that we were gonna get a Carroll-Kirwan package, and I’m wondering, “Where’s the other half of the package???”

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more Pat Kirwan!

:o)

is carroll gonna keep the west coast offense going, or bring in his own kind of offense? Id personally like to see something different, even if it means givin Hasselbeck the shaft.

And looking absently at his face as he talks, and suddenly I’m reminded of Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin). Pete Carroll looks like his athletic father or uncle. Watch ‘til he starts talking about whether he can say the names of this year’s freshman class.

That has to count for something right? I mean I was never sold on Mora, I never thought they would pull together and win one last Super Bowl for Holmgren. There are a lot of unknowns with Pete Carroll but unknowns beat the mediocrity that has settled in the years after the Super Bowl and the piss poor years we have had the last two years.

The major knock I had on Mora was that I felt as if he was leaving our team demoralized and unprepared. That three-game stretch at the end of the season where we seemed to be down 14-0 before the first quarter was over really made it apparent that the team was either no longer caring or woefully unprepared.

Carroll may not deliver us a better record next season – in fact, I would not be surprised if the team even ended up losing more games as we undergo a few growing pains – but I think team morale will be much higher, and that combined with an infusion of young talent will propel this team back to the top of the division and league contention once again.

the way Jimmy Johnson did. Would Goddell allow it?