D-train wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:35 pmDid you see this:auroraave wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:10 pmMichael K. wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:55 pm
It may also just be one of Pete's kids. Hell, Danny O'Neil this morning was trying to point out that his kids actually hold him accountable. If it takes hiring a kid for some accountability? Fuck that.
I agree, this hire is totally going to lack any excitement. Right about now I have more faith in Jimmy Lake getting a good DC....and I have almost no faith in that!
One guy wants a power run offense, but runs every play out of the shotgun with no FB, and the other thinks that LBs and D Lineman are the devil!
I can't help but think, and maybe it's just me projecting this, that if this hire isn't widely embraced by the fans and 'pundits', I have a feeling fan interest in the Seahawks is going to decline quickly. From a marketing stand point, no one wants to watch old school ball. Regardless of the merits or lack of merits of Carroll's philosophy, at the end of the day, the Seahawks are nothing more than a consumable product, and if that product doesn't evolve out of the dark ages, I know I'm not going to have any interest in watching. With the cost of games, the politics, the injuries, all the things the league has going against it, PC's "holding on for dear life" philosophy is just not going to be embraced anymore, IMO. Not while watching other teams put their foot on the gas out of the gate. There is more to the game than his plodding along approach, and watching that same movie over and over again, well, no thanks. I can't watch that anymore. Life is too short. Beyond the x's and o's of the game, if this team does not evolve, I think they are going to be in real trouble - both in the standings, and in fan support. After the epic disaster this season ended in, trotting out the same old same old, is going to be a very slippery slope to sell the fans.
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And one day later they announce they are going to interview a guy that has been a RB coach for 24 years without a single promotion who just happens to be black. Good news is Biden will be a huge Hawks fan.
It's 2021 - they have to, at the very minimum, go through all the 'minority candidate' interviews to appease certain segments, and I cannot imagine that guy is in anything more than checking that box, I just hope it's not because they really plan on promoting Canales up to OC. One of the strangest things i read was an ESPN article about how Wilson wants input into the next OC hire - what baffles me about this declaration, is that he's had three years under shotty to be heard. In his last presser he lamented how they 'maybe should've' gone to some tempo stuff - so while he is protecting his image and building his brand with safe soundbites, why wasn't he exercising is input power the last three years? What's he been doing besides being a yes man for, not only three season, but the disaster that ended the season? he knew what the Rams did on defense, did he not have ANY input the week of game planning, not to mention during the game itself? His statement makes no sense to me - who has more input than the QB? He said himself he'd have liked to do some different stuff - was he just telling Ciara that? He spends all day with the OC, so, at no point did it ever occur to him to say something? It's shit like this that makes me really question Russell Wilson.
RW will never be a GOAT - the GOATS are NEVER yes men. Wilson is too scared to go against his personal brand, to stir it up, to have the balls to take control and demand more, and that Wishy Washy routine is not what gets you a jacket into Canton. It'll get you a nice fragrance deal, though.
Nine years in the league and all of a sudden he wants input? C'mon, man!