Except we have seen almost none of this in the past 7-8 years with our young guys. Very few of them have developed in a way that was higher then expected and many more instances of exactly the opposite. I don't have a ton of faith that Pete is still some miracle worker at exposing talent.
IMO I don't think we've seen it in the past 7-8 years because the talent we got in 2012 and 2013 was just too good... we had to pay those players, young guns coming in were going up against established all-pro's. No young guy was going to "compete" hard enough to bench Earl, Kam, Sherm, Bobby, KJ, Russ, Doug, Lockett, I mean the list goes on and on. This is why Pete references the "program" losing it's way. I guarantee his "always compete, no job is safe" mantra fell on deaf ears with the young draft picks because the front office had just paid big $$ to the guy they were competing against.
Now that the team is back to square one, the dogs are going to show up, these young draft picks don't have anyone really they can't beat out (except probably Jamal Adams, DK, and Lockett — so, WRs got it bad, everyone else though...look out)
I'm excited to see Pete and this team return to the original form of no names making a name for themselves. No one expected in 2011 a 7-9 team QB'd by an old game-manager in Hasselbeck would win a playoff game, no one expected rookie Russ and the LOB to do what they did in year 1—the fight they showed, Year 2 of the Russ/true LOB era it all came together, and so on... once those no names got paid, Pete's "Always compete" mantra started falling on deaf ears plugged up with bags of money, the identity of stay simple and go toe-to-toe and out-work your opponent started to die.
Watch. This team is going to shock people... despite Geno/Lock/whoever is behind the Center... and it'll be because of Pete and Schneider no longer being handcuffed by the big names. LOB v2 is going to be lit.