TwistedHusky":igln51gk said:
Pete is the best Seahawk coach of all time. There is no disputing that. I don't want him gone, even through the frustration with him.
But he is also more concerned with doing things his way than doing things the way that work.
He is willing to lose doing things the 'Pete way' instead of doing things that way that wins. There is an ego thing there where how he wants to do things supersedes what he can or should be doing. And the ego always wins, despite what reality should be saying.
Want proof?
The challenge on the iffy PI in the game recently where he literally admitted he knew that they would not overturn it, but he challenged it anyway.
Again, a year or two ago, we were content with a strategy where Wilson throws for less than 50 yards or no TDs in a half. This same Wilson is an MVP frontrunner now that we are scoring TDs in the 1st half. We were using an MVP caliber player the way you would use Hoyer or a 3rd string QB from the Browns. It was stupid.
It worked because half the teams we played where worse than us. So we got a winning record, but we missed the playoffs one year because of it and got blown out in the playoffs the other years.
In this case, he had a great defense. And he had the opportunity to field a great offense. He literally just chose not to. It was more important to play 'Pete ball' than to use our best player to win games the way we could.
And that was why we turned from a Super Bowl contender into a team that scratches for wildcards then gets blown out in the first real playoff games outside the wildcards.
So you don't think we turned from a SB team to a wildcard team for all the same reasons every team not named Patriots does? It happened to NO. It happened to GB. It happened to PHI. It happened to BAL. It got even worse for teams like NYG and DEN who started totally sucking.
It's a very myopic tunnel vision view to think that it is normal to sustain success after back to back SB appearances. That means you are basing opinions on only two teams on the planet: NE and SEA.
If you take a broader view that the NFL structure is designed to break apart dynasties with such interventions as draft order, season schedules, salary caps, waiver claim order, etc., then you can understand why success is hard to sustain and has little to do with coach's egos.
Pete has stated very clearly that he tried doing things like the way you think they should be done and got fired. He soul searched and decided that the best way was to develop your core beliefs and be true to them. So that's the central tenet of his program. It's less about ego and more about consistent messaging and having a consistent winning plan that doesn't waver.
Pete Ball is about balanced offense, tough running, opportunistic passing, stout run defense, keep everything in front pass defense and winning the turnover battle. Its a pretty simple formula but he's been true to it and won with it. Whether the team gets a wild card or a high conference seed is more about the players executing his plan than about his stubborn ways.
Chasing the elusive "Way that works" has led to the downfall of many a coach. Because many times you guess wrong if your name is anyone but Bill Belichek. Pete believes that if he follows his plan, develops his players, sticks to his core beliefs, that he can win championships. And guess what, he's won at both the NFL and college level. So why argue he's doing something wrong by not having a more fluid philosophy?