Report: Seahawks will go up for sale after Super Bowl

[Sibelius Hindemith]

I really wish the NFL would bar any hirings and interviews until after the Super Bowl, but I'm sure there's some compelling reason that the owners have for allowing it. Just hope Kubiak will be 100% focused on a game plan to beat NE because that D is no joke.

[Donn Beach]

Looking at our staff. I think we should probably just promote Rick Dension. He has Been and O.C. for multiple franchises and was connected to Gary Kubiak at the hip so he knows his stuff and can run with what we got. He was the O.C. for the Broncos when they won the Super Bowl. I am sure that Klint will try to take him with him but would you rather be the O.C. in Vegas or for a super bowl team in Seattle?

They could offer him the OC gig in Seattle, kubiak would be offering him an assistant coaching position in Vegas.

[Donn Beach]

Going into the season who had that on their bingo card? Kubiak getting Pete's job. It's been quite a season

I am not alone in the fact that I sure didn't think Pete would work out. Not by a long shot. Kubiak is going to make a lot of money, but I still don't know how much success he is going to have there. They are a fractured fucking franchise. Bad O Line, BAD O Line. But Kubiak got a few more games out of Abe Lucas and had Zabel, but he otherwise took a line that was one of the worst I've ever seen last year into what we have this year....a pretty functioning unit. So who knows? I wish him luck, but I think he is going to need it.

He might be a nice breath of fresh air for them though. I doubt Pete will admit this, ever, but the game has passed him by. Maybe he can go coach at North Carolina like all the other old men who's egos wont allow them to hang it up?

I think he gets patience. The way they have burned through coaches is unreal. They have to allow this one a chance to work.

[HawkandMariner88]

Just because you make a bunch of money with a losing franchise doesn't mean it's great. I'd rather make peanuts for a successful franchise then someone like the Raiders. I get there's only 32 of these things but I wanna win. I got news for ya.

The Browns ain't winning

The Raiders aren't winning

The Jets sure as hell aren't winning

Just because your top dog doesn't equate to success. There's a reason these teams are perpetually bad. Whoever takes that job is gonna struggle. You really think your beating Andy Reid, Sean Payton & Jim Harbaugh twice in a year, good luck.

[Michael K.]

Just because you make a bunch of money with a losing franchise doesn't mean it's great. I'd rather make peanuts for a successful franchise then someone like the Raiders. I get there's only 32 of these things but I wanna win. I got news for ya.

Tough call. Not many people alive that would turn down a pay raise of that nature. Not many people as competitive as these guys that don't believe they can't make a difference. Add in the fact that they have the #1 pick that will most likely be a QB that appears very NFL ready, already have Austin Jeanty and Brock Bowers?

The Browns ain't winning

The Raiders aren't winning

The Jets sure as hell aren't winning

I wonder how many people told Mike Holmgren that? Then I wonder how many told Pete Carroll that after Holmgren and Mora combined to win like 7 games in two seasons?

Just because your top dog doesn't equate to success. There's a reason these teams are perpetually bad. Whoever takes that job is gonna struggle. You really think your beating Andy Reid, Sean Payton & Jim Harbaugh twice in a year, good luck.

If I am talking to a potential HC, and they are afraid of Andy Reid, Sean Payton and Jim fucking Harbaugh? They aint cut out to be the HC anyway. Remind me which one of those guys didn't start out as a rookie HC after being a successful assistant somewhere else?

It cracks me up how many people think guys should just turn down a ten plus MILLION dollar a year pay raise because they might have to build a winner? Who didn't have to build a winner?

[douche]

Just because you make a bunch of money with a losing franchise doesn't mean it's great. I'd rather make peanuts for a successful franchise then someone like the Raiders.

I agree, but I don't think coordinators are making peanuts.

Unless you had my job. Then it would be peanuts, definitely peanuts.

[douche]

Yeah, his salary go from probably around $2 mil to maybe 12-13 mil. Easy to turn that down

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/475 ... ysfunction

From the article:

"Brady has a lot of say in the organization," said an agent of a Raiders client in December. "Pete will be gone, and Spytek will stay because Brady will want it that way. Mark Davis needed an influx of cash to operate at a different level. With new cash comes strings, and those strings are Tom Brady."

"Who would want the Raiders job?" asked an agent of a Raiders player. "The coach who takes the Raiders job is the coach who takes any job. They know: 'As soon as we have a string of losses -- which we will likely have -- they will be calling for my head and the owner is going to listen.'"

The Raiders declined to make Carroll or Brady available for interviews. In a statement from team owner Davis about Carroll's firing, he defined Brady's role in the most specific, but somehow still vague, terms yet: General manager John Spytek will lead football operations in "close collaboration" with Brady, and together "they will guide football decisions," including the search for the next head coach.

Because Brady's influence to hire Carroll worked out so well.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

I hope Mendoza will enjoy playing behind the worst O line in football. Kubiak will have to come up with a whole new offense fof that train wreck.

[douche]

At the end of October, in a move that signaled the Raiders were still trying to save the 2025 season, they signed 33-year-old receiver and former Seahawk Tyler Lockett, who knew Smith and Carroll well.

"Lockett took snaps away from rookies," said the second personnel executive for another team. "They added all these veteran players to a bad team that should be focused on playing all young players."

Um, yeah.

And this:

Complicating matters was that the offensive line coach is Carroll's son, Brennan.

Brennan had spent five seasons in Seattle with his dad as the assistant OL coach, and one as run game coordinator. He was then the OC and OL coach for the University of Arizona and the University of Washington -- working for head coach Jedd Fisch at both schools -- before reuniting with his dad in Vegas this season. Washington ranked sixth in the Big Ten in yards per game during Carroll's lone season there, and Arizona's offense was among the Big 12's best during his tenure. Pete's other son, Nate Carroll, is the Raiders' assistant quarterbacks and game management coach, and also worked for Pete Carroll in Seattle.

"A lot of guys were out of their natural position," left tackle Kolton Miller told ESPN. "It's not easy, but [Brennan Carroll] tried to get the best of us together each week."

An agent of a Raiders offensive lineman said that his client told him the position group met multiple times on their own with Smith and Jeanty, and specifically without coaches, so the quarterback and running back could talk to them about how they wanted the offensive line to create blocks.

"It was that bad," the agent told ESPN. "They were meeting on their own and trying to figure it out together, which I have never heard of in my history of working in this league."

"There is some sort of nepotism going on," a fourth agent of a Raiders player said.

The agent also said his client said that Brennan Carroll rushed players through individual drills at practice and didn't teach them what they were trying to achieve in specific drills.

Shit show. Sure, Pete is now gone but Brennan Carroll is still there. Regardless, I don't think Davis gets it. I mean, he wants Brady to be even more involved in the next head coach search. All the best to Kubiak. He has to get his feet wet at some point, I suppose. But he has to know what he's in for. And he'll need to have a lot of say when it comes to his assistants.

[douche]

I hope Mendoza will enjoy playing behind the worst O line in football. Kubiak will have to come up with a whole new offense fof that train wreck.

From the same article:

"This offensive line coach (Carroll) is the biggest issue with this team," said the agent of a Raiders offensive lineman in December. "Everybody knows and nobody talks about it because it's Pete's son. Everyone talks about it behind the scenes, no one talks about it publicly."

And this tidbit:

"Tom (Brady) has never run a team," said a former Raiders personnel executive. "I keep telling people, like Tom has all this influence, but Tom isn't in the building and he doesn't have any experience with this."