Bronco fans are just already making excuses.
Pro Workouts > Collegiate Workouts... Obvs.
Boys turn into Men.... Obvs
And my research puts Carroll with about 150 different players on his watch over the last 4 years. The averages to about 38 new players a year.
Of the 6 players linked to PEDs, they qualify for only 4% of all players in Pete Caroll's tenure. 4% unclean, 96% clean.
Considering in the first 2 years alone, the Seahawks made over 550 player transactions combined with an ultra competitive core philosophy, you are bound to get a few bad apples who are going to skirt the lines to remain at certain level of performance. It happens and not just the Seahawks.
And I'm willing to bet we have had the most players suspended, not because our team cheats, but because we have had the highest volume of players coming and going throughout our franchise the last few years.
By all these Haters logic:
I guess the Eagles are cheating because they hired Allen Barbe.
I guess the Jags are cheating because they claimed Winston Guy.
I guess the Broncos are cheating because they traded for John Moffit.
Right? Because they've all been suspended for PEDs.
Wrong, the year is 2013, the only guy who has been suspended in this current year for PEDs has been Bruce Irvin back in May. He missed the first 4 games in which the Seahawks went 4-0 and he was required to pass at least 160 random drug tests since then, closer to 200 depending on the time he was actually convicted to its court process. And thus far he has remained clean..
Bruce is 1 player of about 70 that have been under the Seahawks control this year. He accounts for 1.4% of the team. Is 98.6 not good enough?
So...unless your going to punish a whole team for what one guy did 8 months ago and something that really has no bearing on the performance of this current season, because we are talking about Bruce Irvin, the proud owner of 12 starts with 44 tackles, 1 Int, 1 FF, and 2 sacks to show for his supposedly "enhanced" performance.....
...STFU and stop making preemptive excuses, Denver and everybody else.