IndyHawk":2hy54kug said:
When the stars got older and started getting hurt it did feel stale and hanging on
to past glory.The attitudes became more about me instead of we and that got old fast.
I'm excited too to see who rises and if they play as a team that is hungry.
A lot of people could be about to be pretty disappointed on this front.
"Young, cheap, and hungry" is getting thrown around a lot these days as if it will guarantee a return to quality, but it's a logical fallacy to assume that pure motivation will make these guys stars - or that they made Carroll's previous generation stars. Earl, Kam, and Sherman didn't win a Super Bowl until their fourth, redshirt fourth, and third years, respectively, and they succeeded because they were well-scouted, well-coached All-Pro talents. They didn't shine because they were Mad At Having Been Passed Over™ or whatever it is people are assuming. Had Carroll's DB paradigm existed in the league at the time Kam and Sherman were drafted, they might have been day two, maybe day one draft picks. And Earl wasn't passed over at all.
A lot of people haven't considered the very real possibility that these guys may get set loose on the field, young, cheap and hungry, and then just...suck. It's not enough to be young, cheap, and hungry. They also have to be good.
And if Pete does return to a Super Bowl, he's going to do it largely with players that were drafted from 2015-2017. So the draft class of our next Super Bowl, if it happens, is already on the roster. What are we thinking about them?