AND for getting the Seahawks to the Super Bowl for TWO CONSECUTIVE years...Funny how SOME folks want to DISMISS Pete's ACCOMPLISHMENT, and just how hard that is to do.
How long ago was that accomplishment exactly? The last Super Bowl run was 9 years ago come the 2022 season. Carroll absolutely deserves credit for that victory -- but we also pay coaches and players for what they'll do in the future, not based on past performances.
Since the Super Bowl runs, our team has had little success outside of the regular season. We had yet to even make it past the divisional round. Our last playoff win was in 2019 against 40 plus year old ghost of McCown -- not even the starting QB of the Eagles. Even in that game they gave the Seahawks a run for their money with a barely functioning QB.
We've had 1 playoff win against a team that backed into the playoffs in the last four years. Assuming the team doesn't make it to the playoffs this year, that is going to be five years with only a single a playoff win. Since the Super Bowl we are overall 3-5 in the playoffs. We've lost in the postseason more than just about every team. One of our three victories was gifted to us by Blair Walsh, missing a chipshot go ahead field goal in the final moments of 2015. Really our record should be 2-6. In addition to this, that Vikings team was lead by Teddy Bridgewater. The other two teams we beat were teams that stumbled into the wildcard round at the least second. In the Lions game we were playing a Matt Stafford with an injured throwing arm and sprained ankle. In the Eagles game Wentz was knocked out right away and replaced by McCown.
We don't have one signature or quality victory in the postseason since 2014 -- almost 10 years now. We weren't even able to wrangle a victory out against Jared Goff with a broken throwing hand. Now said head coach is 70 years old trying to rebuild the roster. He's been struggling to keep up with the modern NFL as well lately. I appreciate what he did for us, but we should have moved on in the offseason. Carroll is never going to accomplish anything of note on the Seahawks ever again.