nwHawk":1yrtmjkn said:
Fair enough, but you only need to outscore the other team by 1 point to win. You don't get style points for putting up 30 points each game. How many Sooper Bowls has Brees, Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan played in the past 5 or 6 years? Yup, none. Even Peyton Manning's 2015 Super Bowl winning year they got there and won because of the defense. In that time Pete's been to two SBs. New England's Belichick is the only other coach to lead a team to 2 or more SBs in the last 9 years. I understand we want the sexy and easy blowout wins, but in today's NFL a wins a win.
Who know's how last year would have gone if Blair Walsh never played for us. A good kicker goes along way. If I had to fault him on one of my biggest complaints it's not demanding the best kicker possible - but that can be a crap shoot. I fault John more than Pete for the last 3 years because I think John really got caught up with freak athletes and SPARQ for a while hoping Pete would make home runs out of every player.And, lately he's scaled back to slightly above Tim Ruskell's level, but with a much cooler vibe to me. Even John's still trying to find the sweet spot. As the old saying goes, "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken s**t."
Nobody is asking for blowout wins, those are rare unless you're playing really bad teams on a regular basis. What needs to be addressed is the TOP and consistency on offense. The "win in the 4th quarter" mentality has cost the Seahawks a ton of games that we should have won. It has caused teams that should have been closed out linger. We were put in the situations that involved Blair Walsh due to Pete's offensive philosophy. Not doing anything until the 4th quarter is untenable, it contains a bunch of variables where if one thing goes wrong, the entire game is thrown. Sexy blowout wins are nice, but what we really need is consistency, and a ball control offense that sucks the life out of other teams. This is the style of offense that Peyton Manning won his last SuperBowl with, it's how the Raven's, Bucs, and early Steelers won. l.
The issue with Pete Carroll's offense is he constantly chasing the big play. People described him as being conservative, when in reality it is quite the opposite. Greg Knapp was conservative, Pete is the exact opposite of that. He has a Mike Martz streak in him where low percentage plays are called in odd situations, expecting to catch teams off guard and getting a big play. This leads to stalled drives, and three and outs. We've abandoned the run when we should be running it, and we're throwing deep balls with no set up. This has been a trend with Pete Carroll, and it is absolutely killing our teams, and putting the Seahawks in bad positions with a lot of variables at the end of games. Yes, we could have won many of those games last season, you want to know why that didn't happen? Poor offensive strategy, and a broken system that places emphasis on low percentage plays above all else.
In the next paragraph you talk about John Schneider being the problem. That is 100 percent BS. Pete Carroll makes all of the calls. He has the power to override anything Schneider does. Anything Schneider does must first go through Pete Carroll. It is how our system is set up. Blair Walsh is just a symptom of something much more sinister; a series of poor moves that have compounded on top of one another. It has been a trend since even back in 2013. At this point the Carroll regime has had more bad drafts than good. It is a valid question to ask "should we keep this guy around?".
