Pete Carroll Bores Me

PC’s D http://www.trojanfootballanalysis.com/43_under_blitz_schemes.html is pretty near the same as what Mora & Gus said they were trying to do last season, with their ‘WCD’. Keep 8 in/near the box and attack, attack, attack!!! Mora & Gus were T2/4-3 Over and PC is 4-3 Under. Would not be surprised if Gus is retained as DC. On the offense, Bates = Knapp. WCO, ZBing with strong emphasis on the run.

The difference between these two staff is cred. Next season, PC is gonna have to be seen by the players in the locker room as the strong man in the room. Mora lost whatever presence (as ‘the man’) he had when he first started, talking about taking the Lombardi around to the Hawks supporters (or some such thing) then immediately turned to TR and begged TR to let him do it, asking if it would be OK with Tim. Weak. PC has to be seen as the man. The players have to know that if they don’t continuously please PC that they’re out. That PC is gonna stay, and any player, from the top to the bottom is not gonna win in any contest of wills with their coach. They have to see that they (the players) have to give better than their play of the last two years or they’re out.

and it has nothing to do with Pete Carroll, and it could be completely unfounded. However DeCosta’s withdrawal from consideration for the job may imply otherwise.

Having a strong GM is more important than having a good coach. At the end of the day, talent wins 90% of the time, and bad head coaches will still ocassionally win the Super Bowl (Brian Billick comes to mind). Now that a big name like Carrell is the coach, it hurts our GM search for a few reasons:

• The GM doesn’t have the ability to chose a coach that he’s philosophically aligned with.
• Carroll will most likely have more power than most coaches in the league, which dilutes the GM’s power.
• Any potential turnaround by the team will be viewed more as Carroll’s doing, more so than the GM.
• Seattle has a dog-and-pony feel to it right now with the way the entire situation was handled. I feel like a Redskins fan and I’m pretty uncomfortable with it. I’m guessing most potential GMs would be as well.

How am I supposed to seem knowledgeable and in the mix if I don’t have a solid, well thought out position to plagiarize? Sure, sure, patience and measured responses are fine. But how am I supposed to plagiarize that??

I absolutely agree that his success in USC won’t translate how much he’ll do good in the pros. But he is 33-31 as an NFL coach which is a respectable record IMO. All the bashing I hear of him sounds like he only won 2 games in the NFL but he took the Pats to two straight playoff appearances. Pete Carroll has my full support and we should all support him in the long run.

I like his easy demeanor during sideline interviews. I like that he’s had big success in college. I like that he’s had two stints in the pros and one of em included playoff appearances and a playoff win. I like that he was a good defensive coordinator. I like that he has a history with the Oregon Ducks. Beloved in all the Pacific Northwest those Ducks. But mostly I like that he wants a third chance at the NFL and has been thinking about it for nine years. I’ll bet he feels very ready.

And Love that he chose the Seattle Seahawks of his own valishion.

Now lets get healthy, draft some impact linemen on both sides of the ball and maybe a future star QB and lets get rocking.

Hey guys. I love the Seahawks. Period, from day one of the franchise. Seen good days and bad years. Still a fan. I’ve been reading this blog(?) for awhile and very much enjoy the wit and football knowledge of the folks who write in. (whats a lemon bar?) I do not have the encyclopedic knowledge of the sport that most of you guys obviously do and am quite sure I never will. So mote it be. I agree with JM that every thing said and done by PC up to this point means squat. Give the guy a chance to do HIS thing. He’s done credibly well so far even in the volcano crucible known as the NFL ( not for long ). So hey, throw him a bone already. I also would like to commend this site for not being the playground for namecalling idiot site that seems to be prevelant elsewhere. And where have all the recievers gone? Man could we use a man with some grit on this team. ( ala Steve Largent ) Anyway, love the site and maybe i’ll have something intelligent to add once in a while. Or so idiotic as to be amusing. PRAISE GOD and go Seahawks!

fare

Quite frankly it is boring. It’s just not as important as who the next GM is.

How do people here feel about Ken Norton Jr coming along as LB coach? I must say that pairing KNJ with Curry is something I am excited to see play out . . .

This is a good write up. Not like that shit from Jeffri Chadiha on ESPN yesterday. If only the Seahawks would have hired Chadiha to do their internal audit, then maybe we could have hire Martz or stolen a genius like Mangini. His idea that he already knows what is going to happen with Caroll is rediculous. Morgan makes a very good point that we need to wait and see if he is going to be any good by looking at his decisions and the results of those decisions. Then we can make a judgement. Similarly I was a Mora supporter, but by the end of the season, based on the outcome I saw, I was convinced that Mora just wasn’t producing the results that we want (wins) and that is just too bad. Good luck Caroll, we all want wins, even those who don’t like this decision will come around if we win…and build an offensive line.

Shit Hasselbeck

You will end up eating these words like so many other. Go hawks.