RiverDog wrote:So in other words, if Pete doesn't win another SB, it's John's fault. That's a big 'if', and makes the first part of your statement a moot point. It's what we used to call in racquetball a pre-registered excuse: "My back is killing me today!"
You're the one looking for fault, not me. I'm telling you how football works since it seems for a guy who has watched this game a long time, you don't seem to grasp it.
What's 100 percent true?
1. If you win one Super Bowl a decade, you're doing extraordinarily well.
2. If you make the playoffs even 30 to 40% of the time, you're doing better than most teams in the NFL.
3. Runs happen at finite points of time when things come together to make a run. They are not often continuous. You bring in a new coach, a new GM, and you hope they can bring another up period of ball where you're making the playoffs, finding your franchise QB, and making another run.
4. If you have a great franchise QB, you ride them until the wheels fall off the majority of the time.
5. Even the very best NFL franchises since the inception of the league have at most 6 Super Bowl rings since the creation of the Super Bowl 57 years ago. Those teams have been concentrated into particular periods whether Dallas winning 3 in the 90s, Pittsburgh 4 in the 70s, Frisco 5 in the 90s New England 6 during the 2000 sand 2010s, and so on. That means you don't compete for the Super Bowl too often unless you're in some special dynastic period with the perfect coach and GM set up with sufficient talent.
6. What seems to be the most consistent reason for Super Bowl and playoff success? Ownership. Ownerships philosophy on finding a good coach and GM to run the team, followed by talent acquisition, then outright luck if you pick some amazing QB who plays above expectations. That is a rare mix, but it starts with strong ownership committed to a winning tradition who understands the game of football, has patience to let a good coach and GM they believe in do the job, and then wait.
Fans who have unrealistic expectations after watching this game as long as you have are a strange lot to me. The expectation at best if you are an extremely well run franchise is one Super Bowl every ten years, few teams do even that.
Standards should be in line with historical production of the better run franchises.
7. I don't know that our current ownership is still as good as Paul Allen and thus am not confident at all they would replace Pete Carroll with a coach that would not put us in the purgatory of teams like Cleveland and Detroit. If Paul Allen still owned the team, I'm fairly certain Pete might have already been gone as Allen tends to know when a head coach is done or at least when he wants a change. But Jodi Allen? I don't know her at all or her plans or her interest level in managing a sports team.
All I know is if we don't have a clearly better option with an owner motivated to improve the team situation and knowledge of a head coach they have in mind, I'd rather stick with Pete and John and see if this Russ trade has renewed their focus and commitment to winning the big game.