Aseahawkfan wrote:Throwing his coaches under the bus? How much rope do you give them? He gave Cable five years plus to build a high functioning O-line. He kept Bevell around equally long. Richard he gave a shot and the defense regressed. Richard was on a shorter rope than his other coaches likely because he can assess defense better than offense. This isn't what I would call throwing coaches under the bus, not sure why you would interpret it that way. I think he was admirable for sticking by Bevell after his egregiously bad Super Bowl call. He stuck by Cable as his run game fell into the toilet after Marshawn lost it. He more than gave those guys a chance.
You like to word things in a way that doesn't mirror the truth sometimes RD. Bevell and Cable hung themselves by failing at their jobs, Cable more than Bevell. That in essence means failing to make Pete's offensive vision succeed. He's giving new guys a shot. If you failed at your job when a guy hired you to manage a certain part of the place you worked, would you tell your boss he was throwing you under the bus when you failed? I guess I could see it since it's hard to accept when you haven't done a good job. If I fail at my job, that's my fault. Pete shouldn't have to do Bevell and Cable's job for them. He hired them to do a job.
I seriously wonder how happy you'll be if we get a schleb of a coach or even another Holmgren where we don't have playoffs every year and we fail quite often. You literally have one coach named Belichick (Maybe Coughlin with two Super Bowl wins, but fewer playoff years) that has done better than Pete Carroll in the past decade, one coach. Who do you want if our current coach is basically the second best coach of the past decade? I'm not sure what kind of results your looking for, but I guarantee you will be crying much worse when Pete is gone unless we get very, very, very lucky with a new coach. Not sure why you want change. I'd live with Pete for the next ten years than look forward to possibly ending up as a soso team with much Super Bowl hope again.
OK, I'll admit that using the term "throwing them under the bus" wasn't the most accurate way to describe the firing of Pete's staff. And I agree with you, they did deserve it. But the rest of my post is factual. Pete did stick with the same run first philosophy, stuck with is "good ole boy" network of coaches rather than going off the reservation for some new ideas, so it's apparent that he's attributing our failures more to the specific coaches he let go than he is his overall philosophy. And like I said, there's a good chance he's right, and I can't say that I blame him, at least not at this point. Personally, I thought he should have let Bevell and Cable go much earlier than he did.
This argument has nothing to do with my personal wants or desires. Personally I am still on the bandwagon, a Pete supporter. Just by virtue of his two straight SB appearances and our only Lombardi he's earned himself the benefit of the doubt. All I am saying is that with the manner in which he's turning over his coaching staff, he's making a statement. Right now, all it amounts to is some raising of the eyebrows. Only if we are no better off in a year or two than we are today will it become an issue.