The "Experts" said that the Seahawks sucked the year we won the Super Bowl. One thing I've learned over the years is not to put to much weight on what the "Experts" think. A few years back, they had the Colts and Andrew Luck as hands down Super Bowl Champions, who were supposed to go, undefeated the entire season.
I will bet my lot on what John Schneider and Pete Carroll have to say about their chances this season. I seem to recall Pete saying that he was more excited about this current bunch of players, than he has been about any bunch in his coaching career.
I started out early on in the offseason, feeling pretty bleak about our Seahawks prospects in the 2018, and then came Bennett, Sherman, Willson, Richardson’s, Jimmy, which really left me scratching my head, wondering what the heck Pete and John were thinking.
Then as I watched them start to fill those gaps, and begin to assemble a very promising and exciting bunch of players, in their place. I found myself increasingly becoming more hopeful about our chances in 2018-2019.
I think the lesson that was learned by John and Pete over the last few years, was that even in the NFL you have a graduating class of players, and that there comes a time when a "player is no longer with the program", and is no longer teachable, that you need to put past performance or even potential future performance, out of the picture and not let it cloud your judgments, about what is best for the team. The cold hard fact is that in the NFL, it truly is about business. There is no such thing as there is no such thing as standing still, your either moving forward or falling behind.
I think it was made crystal clear to everyone associated with the Seahawks team, at the end of last year that things needed to change, and change fast, or everyone was going to be looking for new jobs, players, coaches, managers, all the way up the food chain. Everything I’ve seen happen during this offseason has been evidence that they are on a mission, and in my humble opinion, are moving forward in a very big way. I look to see big things for the Seahawks this season.
I applaud John and Pete, for making many of the really tough decisions, they have had to make, in order to regain their momentum and standings in their division and in the NFL as a whole. I think we have seen a true return, to the compete for your position philosophy and practice. It seems to me the past couple of seasons that it amounted to not much more than just lip service. That philosophy and practice has worked well for Pete for years and he needs to get back to it and stick to it, if he wants’ to finish out his career in Seattle.
Maybe I’m just a Homer, dreaming of Sunshine and Lollipops, or maybe I'm not. What I am looking for this season is really great things happening in The Emerald City. “I got a Feeling". There are just too many great things that have fallen into place for us in the offseason, for me to imagine anything less than a season that will be remembered as much if not more than any other NFL team in its history. The Magic is back!
Go Seahawks!