Bob_the_Destroyer
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It is interesting how many Bronco fans are fixated on the Seahawks: lots of hate, revenge, bad-mouthing, etc.
When it comes to the Denver Broncos, Seahawk fans and players just don't care -- we really don't. Absolutely no one gets worked up about the Broncos and no one even talks about them. They are just another team on the pre-season and regular season schedule. Some Seahawk fans can't help themselves when they see all the anti-Seahawk commotion in Denver and just have to come over and give the Broncos a tweak every once in a while. Sorry, it's their idea of fun and you have to admit, you are asking for it. Think about it: you are providing comic relief to the people of Seattle during the serious business of building a team for the season.
The Seahawks have a philosophy of taking one game at a time and not fixating on any future games. Players and fans don't talk about week 3 because we are focusing on each pre-season game, then week 1 with the Packers. They treat every game like a championship game, so when they got to the Super Bowl last season, they had already experienced it 18 times before. Their goal is to play hard, to go 1-0 every game, including the pre-season, when they are evaluating players. Part of the evaluation of young players trying out for the team is to see how hard they compete.
This philosophy of hard-nosed toughness is real. It was crystallized in 2010, Pete Carroll and GM John Schneider's first year with the team, when the Seahawks got rag-dolled by Tom Cable's Oakland Raiders. Carroll and Schneider talk about how they played scared and gave up, how it was the most embarrassing and depressing thing they had ever experienced, and how they vowed that night that it would never happen again. They did not fixate on the Raiders, bad-mouth them, claim they were just having a bad day or point at their ridiculously long list of injured players that year. They gave the Oakland Raiders their due credit and then gave them their sincerest form of flattery: they imitated them. From that day on, Carroll and Schneider were committed to developing an identity of toughness. The turnaround and commitment to their new identity was real and immediate. The Seahawks fought their way into the playoffs with a 7-9 record and upset the defending champion Saints in the Beast Quake game. The next season, they hired Tom Cable, when he became available, as assistant head coach in charge of toughness. Schneider says that is the first thing he looks at when evaluating a player. He looks for players who he wants on his team for a street fight, who can and will brutalize other teams. He actually visualizes them in a street fight and once they pass that evaluation, he then thinks about how they would do when they roll out a football during the fight.
The culmination of that is what Denver ran into in the Super Bowl.
It's actually very flattering that an entire team, fan base and region are so fixated with us, even if they are spewing a lot of hate at anything they can dream up about us. We think it would be dangerous to focus so much on one team and one regular season game and especially on the first pre-season game. There is a possibility that energy that should be used on other teams, particular within the division, is being expended on the Seahawks.
I am not criticizing: we have our philosophy and you have yours. To each their own.
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When it comes to the Denver Broncos, Seahawk fans and players just don't care -- we really don't. Absolutely no one gets worked up about the Broncos and no one even talks about them. They are just another team on the pre-season and regular season schedule. Some Seahawk fans can't help themselves when they see all the anti-Seahawk commotion in Denver and just have to come over and give the Broncos a tweak every once in a while. Sorry, it's their idea of fun and you have to admit, you are asking for it. Think about it: you are providing comic relief to the people of Seattle during the serious business of building a team for the season.
The Seahawks have a philosophy of taking one game at a time and not fixating on any future games. Players and fans don't talk about week 3 because we are focusing on each pre-season game, then week 1 with the Packers. They treat every game like a championship game, so when they got to the Super Bowl last season, they had already experienced it 18 times before. Their goal is to play hard, to go 1-0 every game, including the pre-season, when they are evaluating players. Part of the evaluation of young players trying out for the team is to see how hard they compete.
This philosophy of hard-nosed toughness is real. It was crystallized in 2010, Pete Carroll and GM John Schneider's first year with the team, when the Seahawks got rag-dolled by Tom Cable's Oakland Raiders. Carroll and Schneider talk about how they played scared and gave up, how it was the most embarrassing and depressing thing they had ever experienced, and how they vowed that night that it would never happen again. They did not fixate on the Raiders, bad-mouth them, claim they were just having a bad day or point at their ridiculously long list of injured players that year. They gave the Oakland Raiders their due credit and then gave them their sincerest form of flattery: they imitated them. From that day on, Carroll and Schneider were committed to developing an identity of toughness. The turnaround and commitment to their new identity was real and immediate. The Seahawks fought their way into the playoffs with a 7-9 record and upset the defending champion Saints in the Beast Quake game. The next season, they hired Tom Cable, when he became available, as assistant head coach in charge of toughness. Schneider says that is the first thing he looks at when evaluating a player. He looks for players who he wants on his team for a street fight, who can and will brutalize other teams. He actually visualizes them in a street fight and once they pass that evaluation, he then thinks about how they would do when they roll out a football during the fight.
The culmination of that is what Denver ran into in the Super Bowl.
It's actually very flattering that an entire team, fan base and region are so fixated with us, even if they are spewing a lot of hate at anything they can dream up about us. We think it would be dangerous to focus so much on one team and one regular season game and especially on the first pre-season game. There is a possibility that energy that should be used on other teams, particular within the division, is being expended on the Seahawks.
I am not criticizing: we have our philosophy and you have yours. To each their own.
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