JS executive of the year

[douche]

MM was always the guy JS wanted. He waited, and then pounced. And look how it's turned out.

We owe a LOT to Jody Allen. She was the one who decided Pete should step down and hitched her wagon to JS. I was concerned when Paul passed away, I had visions of SEA going the way of the Browns with his passing. Nice work, Jody!

[Captain 97]

Heard on the Radio this morning that Schneider is the only GM in NFL history to have a team make it back to the super bowl with a different coach and en entirely different roster. So basically he is the first Gm to ever build two different Superbowl teams from the ground up.

[Michael K.]

Yeah, I really am fascinated with the MM hire. I keep pondering it terms of a really brilliant JS move. I don't feel like he gets enough credit for it somehow. You look over the coaching cycle from then, like 40% of the hires have already been fired, that was no slam dunk, MM could have screwed it up. But instead I think he came up with what's looking like a premier NFL HC. What worried me about the hire was the six year contract it took. Now that seems like a steal. You're replacing the franchises winninest coach, what are the chances of actually improving on him? And JS looks like he's done it. I really find that pretty amazing. Terms of replacing qbs and coaches I think us seahawks fans are getting pretty spoiled and JS is the one doing it.

Terms of the actual hire, remember they had to wait for the playoffs to play out so other candidates were being picked off. JS was focused on MM and now we see why. And again, a six year contract for a rookie HC, JS was committed and confident. I'm just curious when did the focus begin? They can Pete and then JS begins casting around for a replacement? That seems kind of hard to believe at this point. So was JS looking at MM as a replacement before they canned Pete?

Now to get to how it impacted putting together the coaching staff, holding out for MM put them behind the eight ball. The obvious situation being the Grubb hire. That's really was the glaring issue. I think that was rushed, it was based on the idea that Grubb could become something he isn't. I mean I think there were discussions, the hire was based on an optimism that wasn't realistic. But what do they do, they fix it. Is there some irony to going from canning your OC after one year to possibly losing his replacement to a HC offer the next?

There's a lot of focus on JSs responsibilies with talent evaluation, but what I'm curious about is his impact on coaching. I've always thought of JS as sort of a gym rat talent evaluator but now I'm sensing something deeper. His grasp not just talent but how to coach it, the entire process, from HC down through the coordinators. I'm beginning to believe it's that's genius that's taken them to the ranks of the Rams and 49ers

It was a very shrewd move. I do believe that MM was who they wanted, it was more the OC hire that was impacted by timing, IMO. I actually was happy they went with Grubb, and not just because he was a Husky, but because he was a creative passing game guy that seemed to fly in the face of the conservative Defensive minded coach. It didn't work, oh well...but they proved they weren't shoved in a box.

No secret I was pissed they fired Grubb, but not because they fired Grubb, but because they seemed to literally make it a scapegoat situation. I didn't buy JS's philosophy that some new coaches and Zabel were all we needed to just be able to run the ball. Of course getting Lucas helped as well, but Kubiak took what was one of the worst rushing offenses I've ever seen and turned it into what we have witnessed the last two or so months. Incredible, IMO. Another shrewd move by JS. All the really good drafts of late, it might actually be the decisions on the coaching staff that got us over the hump with the Rams and 49ers.

Mike Macdonald was a reaction to the fact that we needed to be able to match wits with Shannahan and McVey. The funny thing is? It wasn't the defesnse that beat the Rams. The Ram's offense tore us up three times this year!