-- Can some of you please come to grips with the fact of what is said for the public is different from what is said in private. If I hear "Pete said" one more time, I am going to boke. If you think Carroll is all rainbows and unicorns on the practice field, or meeting rooms, or in coaches meetings, get a clue, find a clue, borrow a clue if you have to.
-- We like to ignore the fact that he has done something very rare in football, winning an NCAA Championship and an NFL Championship. He knows how to coach, and he knows how to lead. But he doesn't grunt when he talks and actually looks excited to be alive, unlike the Nick Saban's and Urban Meyers of the world. Maybe he could be Jim Harbaugh, you know, gets close but never actually wins anything. Has coached Seattle for 13 years, finished last in conference ONCE, finished 3rd ONCE. Won the division 5 times. Not exactly a soft division either, winning 6 of the last 12 NFC Championship games, and favored to do so again this year. My point being, I know the challenges of coaching, especially the art of delegation, and I think some of you are hilariously clueless as to what goes in to extended success. Developing assistants is as challenging as developing players. But if you are going to base everything on one year, you will never be successful.
-- As for Hurtt, Carroll has not been prone to use lateral movement for coordinators. Especially defensive, it is almost always a promotion. Quinn was our Dline coach, before his DC two years at Florida, but first pro coordinator job was with the Hawks. Now Carroll hires a Dline coach again, doesn't give him the LOB, but does give him a below average front seven and a very inexperienced group of corners, and dinged up safeties. But because he doesn't have a Dan Quinn year, he sucks and needs to go. Wise up, he has nowhere near the talent and experience on the field needed to run a consistent defense. You know where inexperience really hurts ? When making adjustments. Younger guys just don't have the knowledge base to move in and out of schemes mid game. This is why Belichek likes vets. It is why Carroll says you lose one game for every rookie you start. Carroll signaled his readiness to reset this whole thing by firing Norton, trading the Icon and cutting Wagner. This is his version of blowing it up and restarting. And we made the playoffs anyway.
-- So please, look around, tell me where this has been pulled off before. Tell me what coach has done it. Total reset, trading away the probowl QB, starting multiple rookies, and still pulling off a playoff berth. Tomlin, Harbaugh (Jon), Belichek, these are great coaches. We would take any one of them. Pete is in this echelon, yet some of you act like he is Jim Mora Jr.
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