mrt144":t2z73qts said:
MontanaHawk05":t2z73qts said:
mrt144":t2z73qts said:
The fundamental error in my opinion from Pete and Schotty is refusing to acknowledge that the climate of the NFL has changed and passing simply is that much better if you devote sufficient cognitive and personnel resources to it. Maybe the investment in tailoring the team towards that is too difficult a task for PC and Schotty to manage.
Or maybe they reached two Super Bowls with a run-first approach when all the same talking heads were predicting Manning to win for the exact same reason.
Remember how we lost 49 by passing instead of running?
Dynamic systems are dynamic. If you think things havent changed since 2013 and 2014 seasons across the league, well, no further need to talk about the future with you.
Well it looks like the answer is easy then! Just hire an elite Offensive Coordinator! Or maybe one of the posters on here could take over and be more creative than Schotty. So easy!
The difference between the Seahawks and teams like the Rams is the Seahawks have been winning for years. So we pick late. Plus, we are paying our players for their success, so we're up against the cap.
The Rams have been losing for years, so they accumulate early round talent.
Then they find a once in a blue moon OC, and add more talent through FA because they have the Cap Space, Then in his 2nd year as Head Coach, his team really improves by adding even MORE talent...because they have a cheap QB (Kind of like Pete and John did way back when).
Meanwhile, the Seahawks overturn the roster and the coaching staff. Everyone is in their 1st season, learning the offense, so how much the team can handle, and bringing it on as fast as they can while keeping the execution level up.
And everyone wants to get rid of Schottenheimer, who went 10-6.
That's what shitty teams do. If they don't win the Superbowl, they get mad and fire people, and they do this over and over and over. Even Patriots fans rebel when their team isn't 16-0. "Tom Brady is too old, Belicheck is behind the times."
We fans can discuss what went wrong, what we'd like to see different, but let's not fool ourselves in to thinking that we have the answer. If we did, we wouldn't be here.