So let me get this straight u guys wanted to run ken norton out now clint hurtt. Pete has full control above the gm. Has had blinders on only promoting from within. Holding
coaches way to long. Hiring his kids to be on the staff. Having historic bad defenses for a DEFENSIVE COACH. But its never him its always his OC/DC. Im so tired of the its
everybody but him because he won 1 superbowl almost a damn decade ago.
He is old and out of touch. A rah rah guy that has no x's and o's in game adjustments. We had the best talent in the early 2010's because pete was fresh out of USC. He had seen the the talent week in and out. And picked up alot of the guys that he couldn't recruit. We had a gm that knew the talent in the nfl and traded/signed it. But we haven't seen a brillant draft since 2015 really. I believe that john had more to do with our last draft as it wasn't those fringe players that pete loves.
The buck should stop at pete but never does. We can't go on just getting spanked in the playoffs first round each year. Last i will leave you with something that has stuck with me since i heard it. Pete was great in college because the kids moved on every 4 years. That says more about pete then anything. And we truely are seeing the results of it. When do we finaly take the homer glasses off and see he isn't great. And people who are a frightened of change. That is what life is. And we are stuck in a loop of being just not good enough and its really really tiring.
Here is the thing about Pete Carroll. He's an elite program manager. Being an HC is much more than just being good at X's and O's. It's why brilliant coordinators such as Fangio and Josh McDaniels can't seem to run a franchise properly. Very common story in the NFL. Hotshot coordinator gets the job, can't manage his team or the big personalities that come with said team.
Pete Carroll is fantastic at managing personalities and getting people to believe in themselves. The players feel as if they are heard and part of the process. In this respect, I think the Carroll is even better than Bill Belichick in his prime. Carroll just has a way with people and managing difficult situations. This is EXTREMELY important and I'm going to say something controversial -- it's the most important aspect of coaching.
Where Carroll falls short is the in game coaching and X's and O's bit. He's not a fantastic in game coach and sometimes his game plans can be perplexing. He has the tendency to hire coordinators and coaching staff that are well below par. He gave guys such as Norton Jr. a job despite poor performance in Oakland. Hurtt was given a job when he managed the most consistently underwhelming part of our team.
Carroll also has a tendency to shift away from things that are working almost inexplicably. It's been an issue throughout his whole career here. Early on we thrived off timing routes and stretching teams out horizontally then slamming them in the second half with the run game from weird formations. Later in the season it looked like the RW special again. I've never seen teams avoid quick slants more than our team, yet whenever we run it with DK he seems to get huge yardage. The team has never seemed to be consistent throughout a season since those legendary LOB teams. You never know what you're going to get with a Carroll Seahawk team from week to week.
Carroll is what I call a high floor, low ceiling sort of coach. You're never going to have a straight up terrible season with him. He seems at his best when dealing with inexperienced, young players that are outmatched. His philosophy of simplicity and allowing players to be their best seem to make these teams thrive. Unfortunately, when he has a roster with more talented players they seem to underperform. He has these default modes that he seems to like going to.
I think at the end of the day, Carroll's issue is that he needs to surround himself with better football minds while he manages the whole operation. Want to run a Vic Fangio style defense? ROLE THE BRINKS TRUCK UP TO VIC FANGIO'S HOUSE, don't mess with a guy that has bounced around the NCAA and NFL with no coordinator experience in Hurtt.
Want run a Shanahan style west coast offense? Stop messing around with failures like Bates and Bevell when you had the chance at the guy himself in 2015 instead of sticking with Bevell after he threw all of his players underneath the bus and refused to take responsibility.
This is what frustrates me the most about Carroll, his coordinator decisions are often times baffling.
If so, seek help. You make 0 sense.
