No. I'm looking for well thought out reasons for how anyone can be excited for Re-Pete.
The generic, "I'm always excited for Seahawks football"! Doesn't cut the mustard.
Watching Pete get out coached again? -I'm excited!
The defense not tackling again? -I'm excited!
Crony coaches back? -Im excited!
This is an insane line of thought. And their is no way I can believe it without a hell of an explanation.
I'm not playing this game with you. I'm just going to state what you're doing here.
In the past, I've written an 1,822 word reply to you explaining my own preferred roadmap for this offseason after you described it as a "joke" and then completely misrepresented what my post said. It was on a similar polled thread created by you. The poll then was similar to this one - a completely rhetorical question that you used as a springboard not for discussion, but for the advancement of your own opinion.
My roadmap was as follows. (
https://www.seahawks.net/threads/poll-the-seahawks-are-at-a-pivotal-point-in-their-history.192780/)
I chose Pete.
This is not a blind endorsement. There are obvious issues that have cropped up in recent years.
I'd like to see a wholesale slate-wiping of staff. Waldron and Dickerson out, Hurtt out, Sanjay Lal out. Retain Larry Izzo, Karl Scott, Deshawn Shead, Neiko Thorpe, BT Jordan, Carl Smith.
On my shortlist for OC would be Kevin Patullo, Frank Reich, Dan Pitcher, Jerrod Johnson, Greg Roman, and Bobby Engram.
On my shortlist for DC would be Jesse Minter, Brandon Staley, Robert Saleh, Ejiro Evero, and Joe Whitt Jr.
We've got a head start on the roster, and last time we cleaned house it was a catalyst for big improvements. We didn't have that head start in 2018, but if we had, it would've been dangerous considering how close they were to the NFCCG the next year in 2019.
Get a new staff together and be bold when it comes to securing a quarterback. Cousins, if he can be swayed, has this team competitive instantly for a few years. Draft route might be costlier in terms of overall expenditure (considering likely trade up), but cheaper on cap. I'm high on pairing Jayden Daniels with Kevin Patullo and getting sort Hurts-style magic going, but that's just my thought process.
I do not buy into the idea that no one wants these jobs one bit. Defensive coaches might give pause because it looks better on the resume to be DC under a HC with offensive background.
You proceeded to argue with me by claiming that I was saying in this post that Greg Roman and Frank Reich were schematically similar coordinators, and claimed that I had no understanding of offensive systems as a result of that claim, which I was not making in the first place.
In my 1,822 word response to every single point you made in your misguided takedown of my researched and reasoned list of options, I made it very clear that I was not claiming what you thought I was, whatsoever.
You proceeded to then claim in your NEXT response that I was saying that Greg Roman and Kirk Cousins were a schematic fit after I explicitly stated that I was not saying that any of the options at quarterback were specific fits for any of the listed offensive coordinators.
You are not reading to understand me. You are not reading these responses in detail. You're doing the Crowder meme bit by sitting there and telling people they have to change your mind before proceeding to not even attempt to engage in a real dialogue, regardless of any logic or research presented.
I've attempted in the past to engage you in good faith with responses that took hours to compose. Real effort to talk to you as an equal who also loves the game of football, also researches it in similar detail to you who just happens to have VALID disagreements with me. I've paid you the respect of putting
exhaustive effort into not misrepresenting your statements and replying to them thoughtfully as face value statements. You have never repaid that effort with anything other than put-downs, condescension, misrepresentations, and strawmen.
With that said, I'm left in the position of having little to no respect for your posts, because I don't believe they're an effort to cultivate meaningful discussion. They're self-promotion and gloating, so I repay the favor with similar gloating when you're wrong. Difference is that I am fine with admitting that it's
gloating, and I don't lie about being wrong when I am.
Personal excitement isn't fact, and preferred routes forward for assembling the staff and roster aren't facts. They're opinions, and you never really seem to put any effort into understanding the opinions of others rather than presenting your own as undeniable fact.
I'll be excited all I want, and I'm not "insane" for doing so.
