Carroll's teams haven't fielded a good defense since 2016. That's the last time that the Hawks had a top 10 defense. That's 8 years of mediocre to league worse defenses.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Carroll is terrible at drafting players.
I think Schneider is and always has been the key to the draft when Seattle drafted well.
I always said Carroll had a leg up advantage drafting in 2010 and early cause he knew players when he was at USC and when that time started dry up cause he no longer had college experience with those players, his selection began to fizzle.
Many on .NET are correct, Carroll, is mainly a culture, players coach guy, but he’s not a brilliant Xs and Os guy. And because of this he depends largely on relationships and he needs elite players in order to make his very simple system work. But elite players aren’t easy to come by and playing his style of defense has become somewhat extinct in the NFL so with each passing year Carroll resulted to trading for players and then paying them, elite money, to make up for his inability to draft well. But these players aren’t elite players and since they got paid, have gotten injured, etc, no longer play with that hunger, so the product on field, especially defense, shows it’s true colors, as a skeleton of what used to be and what used to work.
Carroll couldn’t overcome this.
