I'm very adamant about this...Pete Carroll does not belong in the coach's office. He would be good and maybe even great in player development or even a GM role. We should have reset at least 5 years ago and gave Russ a chance with fresh blood, but old habits die hard. Pete Carroll cannot see the forest for the trees. He's a one trick pony who shot his load a decade ago. His residual talent is enough to make him 'unfireable' which puts us in the unenviable position of perpetually good not great.
How long have we had DK? 4 years? idk. but in 4 years you can't get your WR1 superstar in check? That penalty was embarrassing, classless, and just stupid. It actually made me hate him as a person. I sincerely wish we sold high on his ass because i'm confident we could have got a 1st for him. Zay Flowers would have been an immediate upgrade for scheme fit and i'm not convinced he isn't going to blow past DK stats anyway. Anybody think DK would be pulling this shit with Saleh or Mcdermott? That's just the drop in the ocean about Pete's failures to this point though.
Who is coaching Geno (and Russ) about their complete lack of mobility? Geno slides in the pocket and scrambles and creates time, and then just pisses it away with complete garbage low percentage bullet throwaways, versus all he has to do is win a 1v1 with a 330 lb lineman to create 10 more seconds and get a great shot down the field. It's not even in his mind at all. Over the past 10+ years our best plays were always QB escapes and putting intense pressure on the secondary to hold coverage, and we have COMPLETELY abandoned it in the past 4-5 years. It's obviously not a playcall, it needs to be coached. Geno has at least 3 times a game where he can put a move on and create 3 more seconds minimum and it's not there in his brain at all. Hell if i were a coach i would dedicate a 1/3 of QB practice to geno getting chased by linemen and having to evade, create time, and find something high percentage downfield. We go NOWHERE without a mobile Geno and Pete doesn't get it. We CAN'T beat SF without a mobile QB. They kill pocket QBs routinely. 1 freaking rush for 6 freaking yards from Geno this week? Pathetic. We paid for 20 yds min. a game in addition to the passing. If that's not a part of the equation then we massively overpaid and should have sold high on him too.
Where are the high percentage throws? We built Geno last year by incorporating high percentage passing into the passing game. JSN can win routes. It's not hard to complete 4-7 yard slants. We have the PREMIER WR in all of football for this in DK. Rec league QBs do it every day in flag football. Noah Fant not having a single completion is a complete and utter failure of coaching. If i were the owner i would have PC and Shane outside my office at attention and chew their ass to timbuktu to understand the offensive gameplan. You have to want to lose to not have a single completion to Fant. You can't line up JSN, DK, Tyler, with Walker threatening in the check down, AND cover Noah Fant. He's a solid TE with great hands and terrific route running, and it's unbelievable a professional coaching staff cannot work him into the gameplan when they have so many other weapons taking so much attention elsewhere. I promise you Noah Fant for a 7 yard quick hitter on the wide side of the field would have worked relentlessly. Dude is literally bigger than DK.
Lastly, if we ever again see a 20+ yd pass on 3rd and short this year, I will personally make it my life mission to get Pete fired.