Yeah the niners lost three games... why because debo, Williams, and McCaffrey were out. Injury. The Niners are the best team in football and I think your probably the only one who disputes that have you not been watching with the exception of those three games they are blowing out everybody they play.
The Hawks have been playing all year decimated by injuries and for some reason that gets put off as an excuse. Well I think it's ONE OF the MAJOR reasons why the Hawks are underachieving this year and to say it's not is naive.
So what exactly are you saying? Are you saying because the Hawks don't have the amount of talent in the 2nd year of their rebuild of the top two teams in the NFC that's Pete Carroll's fault? Look at the whole NFC and tell me who has acquired enough talent in the 2nd year of a rebuild to compete with the top two teams in the League? You can't because typically it takes longer than two years to rebuild a team.
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You keep using the term "rebuild". PCJS have straight denied that they've ever been in a rebuild. More importantly, maybe we should define the term clearly so that we're on the same page when having a discussion.
To me and, I dare say, to almost every sports analyst a rebuild is when you
1) Tear down your roster to get rid of overpaid and most highly paid players while amassing as many draft picks as possible.
2) Start with a clean future cap and spend a couple seasons drafting your future. Fill holes with low cost vets.
3) Develop your bounty of draft picks over a couple years while maintaining cap discipline. If you're serious, you should be rolling cap to the future and have little to no dead money.
4) Year 3 or so and it's time to evaluate your young talent. You now know what you have and where you need a few FA blue-chippers and have the cap to get them AND fill in the last few holes with solid mid-tier FAs.
5) Use this period to evaluate every position on the coaching staff. Have a short leash and turn it over until you've filled the ranks with top talent.
6) You have your team. Go win something.
This is completely different from what PC has been doing.
1) Trade for blue-chip players that will never provide adequate value for your schemes/systems. Spend years trying to figure out how to use them because they don't fit. Hold on to your highest paid players as long as possible and never cut or bench them.
2) Go cheap and do the bare minimum on your lines - we don't need any blue-chippers there. Once you realize your line play will mean 10+ losses, overpay in draft picks for mid-tier rentals. Every so often, find a mid-tier FA and pay him like a blue-chipper.
3) Try to coach players up. Ignore it when you see that the majority of players are regressing and only a tiny portion are actually improving throughout the season and year over year. Your coaches may get better someday.
4) "Run It Back" again and again even though the product for this season is, for all intents and purposes, pretty much the same as last season. A borderline playoff team who will be lucky to win a playoff game. Maybe your opponent will be starting a backup QB? Yay?
5) Be loyal to your coaching staff. Until you start hearing the rumbling, then fire one or two and blame them for all your failures. Put Loyalty at the top of the list of qualifications. When they start to deviate from your core football philosophies wait for them to have a bad game then "rein them in" and make them do it with your 1980's schemes. You know best. If you finally luck out and find a good OC, offer him an extension. When he comes in to sign tell him it's your way or the highway. Watch him walk out the door. Hire some schlub instead.
6) Welcome to your .500+- team that has no chance in the playoffs. If it looks like you'll end up more than a game or two below .500? Trade away future draft capital for another rental to keep yourself near .500. Enjoy the job security that comes with not being a loser. Ride the gravy train as long as possible while moving up the coaching wins leaderboard.
Sorry for the rant. But please tell me your definition of "rebuild" so I can tell if it's it's closer to my definition or PC's.