The truth about the Seahawks locker room

[monkey]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seattle-seahawks-edge-airing-their-grievances-1420652292

All the stories we read earlier this year, where the media speculated that the Seahawks locker room was a mess, and the truth is, the Seahawks locker room is

This is perhaps the most emotionally healthy locker room in the NFL.

I linked the image below because 1. it is awesome, and 2.because it reminds me of so many hall of famers. That intensity you see in Earl Thomas' eyes is the same kind of intensity you saw in the eyes of players like Mike Singletary, Dick Butkis, etc...
It's my opinion that Earl Thomas is not only the leader of the defense (there's no doubt of that), but that he's also the most valuable player on the defense (we'd be lost without him), the best player on this team, and quite possibly the single best player in all of football regardless of position.
If I were to build a defense using any current NFL player on any roster, the VERY FIRST player I would take is Earl Thomas, even ahead of JJ Watt. I wouldn't even hesitate for a second deciding.

[PasadenaHawk]

I liked the article, thanks for sharing. I wish more organizations (like where I work) could operate like that!

[kalibane]

The rest of the country is starting to catch on. There was a reason why many of us loved this team in 2012 before the season was over even more than the 2005 team that should have won the franchise's first super bowl.

I remember heading into the 2013 season I was completely confident that it was only a matter of time before the hawks won the bowl. And that is completely unlike me. We got something special up here and we should all take time to enjoy it.

[PasadenaHawk]

I enjoy it everyday!

[Bird Droppings]

Grab it while it's hot ...
It's special ... what we've got ...

it won't last forever ...
....but I'll take two more years if we are so anointed by the powers of the universe.

Many fans of entertainers never find it ...
let alone rigt on their doorstep.

It is simply "IT".

It is far more than a sum of it's individual parts ...
because the members of this team understands "IT".

Elusive, intangible, kinda makes you glow (like radiation), tingle (like vibration), anticipate (like a kid at Christmas), articulate (like a bumbling politician) ...
... and smile like a damn fool.

Like the man say ... "Go Hawks".

zoom

[RiverDog]

Here's my take...as if everyone is dying to hear it.

They had to go through a lot of controversy this season with regards to the Harvin debacle. It had the potential to rip the locker room apart had nothing been done and might have still had it involved individuals of weaker character. But fortunately we cut bait soon enough to where it was still early enough in the season to pick up the pieces and to their immense credit, the players and coaches turned a negative into a positive and used it to become even stronger. They play for each other, not for themselves.

[monkey]

Here's my take...as if everyone is dying to hear it.

They had to go through a lot of controversy this season with regards to the Harvin debacle. It had the potential to rip the locker room apart had nothing been done and might have still had it involved individuals of weaker character. But fortunately we cut bait soon enough to where it was still early enough in the season to pick up the pieces and to their immense credit, the players and coaches turned a negative into a positive and used it to become even stronger. They play for each other, not for themselves.

Sounds about right to me. No one doubts that there was a problem earlier this year, probably due to a combination of several factors, including learning to deal with ultimate success, and Harvin's decisiveness in the locker room.
I've just never believed it was as bad as the media invented. It took Earl Thomas blowing up over sunflowers, and a meeting of the leaders to get the ship back on course, but now it is, and it's going gang busters.
It happened because of the players willingness to be completely honest with each other, and open to criticism. The very things the media pointed to and said were causing the dysfunction, were actually the things that got them through the dysfunction.

[RiverDog]

Sounds about right to me. No one doubts that there was a problem earlier this year, probably due to a combination of several factors, including learning to deal with ultimate success, and Harvin's decisiveness in the locker room.
I've just never believed it was as bad as the media invented. It took Earl Thomas blowing up over sunflowers, and a meeting of the leaders to get the ship back on course, but now it is, and it's going gang busters.
It happened because of the players willingness to be completely honest with each other, and open to criticism. The very things the media pointed to and said were causing the dysfunction, were actually the things that got them through the dysfunction.

I'm not prepared to say that the media 'invented' anything coming out of the Seahawk locker room. But it requires no stretch of the imagination to believe that in their zest for sensational stories that they grossly exaggerated any problems that may have existed.

[HumanCockroach]

Sorry, there are a few that made zero sense when they came out, and had zero substantial "proof" of any kind to believe they all had even a "smidge" of credible information. The Media twist, bastardises and mis represents tidbits of information on a regular bases with even the most germane comments. Have little ( actually less) problems believing some of those "reports" were anything but sensationalised, bald faced, point blank lies.

[RiverDog]

Sorry, there are a few that made zero sense when they came out, and had zero substantial "proof" of any kind to believe they all had even a "smidge" of credible information. The Media twist, bastardises and mis represents tidbits of information on a regular bases with even the most germane comments. Have little ( actually less) problems believing some of those "reports" were anything but sensationalised, bald faced, point blank lies.

If you want to believe that everything that came out of the Hawk's locker room was a pack of lies and was 100% wrong, then go right ahead. I won't argue with you. All I'll say is that a lot of information that leaks out of locker rooms, such as Harbaugh's alleged problems in SF, are based on very little if any credible information and offer "zero substantial proof". Sources are not going to go on record and allow themselves to be quoted and many reporters are reluctant to attribute comments to specific individuals. That doesn't necessarily mean they are true or false, only that they are unproven allegations. It happens all the time in the world of politics, for example, reporters are always crediting "unnamed sources within the administration" in rumors they report on. Sometimes they turn out to be true, sometimes not.

It's a dirty business, and one of the downsides of performing your work in such a public environment, and it most certainly has not been limited to the Seahawk locker room.

[HumanCockroach]

Um, where did I say anything about 100%? I said a "few" most notiably the assinign "not black enough" article. I have little issue taking ALL reporting with a grain of salt, in todays society, because they are no longer reporting, they are "selling" and whether they have to print a small blurb retracting lies, weeks or months later, they only care about "selling" their product. It happens in ALL areas, no matter the subject, there is always a throng of reporters chomping at the bit to tell you what "went wrong" and HOW you SHOULD feel and THINK about it, by all means, enjoy it, I just don't buy anything they are trying to sell, until there is more evidence than " unnamed sources" said x,y and z.

[Zorn76]

The story I laughed at was the one of Harvin attempting some kind of "mutiny" against RW in the locker room.

Either way, guy's a douche.

Beyond that, the networks just can't grasp how strong this teams' psyche is, among other things.

And when we pounded one of their most beloved media darlings into submission a year ago, well, they haven't quite forgiven us for that, either:)