Well, I think it's just that fans have gotten used to having winning seasons. Nobody wants to admit that the season is likely going to be a wash and that our signal callers are among some of the worst in the NFL, if we take their collective body of work into account. People are hoping for a miracle that is unlikely to happen at the QB position. I could see one of them becoming a Bridgewater/Fitzmagic sort of player that is perennially a free agent, but also a lower mid tier caliber of QB that serves as a perfect stop gap.
Honestly, it sounds like Wilson forced Carroll's and the managements hands, the end result is this mess. We were unlucky that it happened to happen in one of the worst QB classes that I can remember. Even QB needy teams were hesitant to pull the trigger on the QB's in the draft. Instead we saw mega trades, which we were trying to get in on in at least one of them in the case of the DeShaun Watson debacle. Wisely, Carroll decided to hold off on the QBs in the draft and stick with the cheap options.
I don't think Seattle is under any delusions that Lock or Geno is our future. They are simply just placeholders at the moment. Drafting and potentially starting two rookie lineman tells me as much and it matches the MO of what Seattle did in 2010 and 2011 with Hasselbeck and Tarvaris Jackson.
Now onto the Titans and 49ers. Tannehill even before Tennessee was far ahead of anything that Lock or Geno has ever done in their careers. People forget that he was no slouch at Miami. He was inconsistent but he was still a solid QB. Jimmy G is on a team that is headed by what is possibly one of the greatest offensive minds in the modern NFL. Kyle Shanahan has a history of elevating the QB's that work under him and is a pretty solid HC so long as you don't need to put a game away in the Super Bowl. I can only think of a few guys that would able to pull off what Shanahan did with Jimmy G under center. We don't have that kind of offensive mind on our staff.
Now, this season is still going to be fun to watch even if what I say comes to pass with Lock and Geno. We've got a lot of talent that i'm high on and a brand new defensive system. Watching these guys develop is exciting and it reminds me of the early Carroll days. Lock and Geno don't need to be good in order to enjoy the Seahawks, they're already doing some cool stuff.
I guess you don't actually read a good number of the posts in this thread.
Not feeling as though we are hopeless is Not the same as having 'blind hope'..
And I don't recall the folks here who aren't of the mind that Lock is a lost cause, predicting we will be great, or even that Geno or Lock are the longterm solution.
I also see the vast majority of folks who are at peace with Lock, also being at oeace with our season not being one about wins and losses, but of starting the next era of Hawks football.
To me, that's an eyes wide open assessment of where we are. Retooling, likely not competing for a championship, but embracing the construction process of this new team.
Everyone is admitting that our qbs aren't great. It's just some of us aren't so fast to dismiss any and all potential that they might just be better than we expect, or that in Locks case, that the quality of a players coaching, might actually have a little bit to do with how well he performs.
And I still maintain that if you were to create a poll asking the question whether or not Russ was justified in, as you stated, 'forcing the FOs hand' that those answering yes, are for the most part the same folks who think Lock's die is cast, and that it's impossible for him to amount to anything... because he's had every opportunity to show that he can..?..
There's no dilusion here. No spoiled fan. No, not being able to cope with a reality where we are no longer great. If you've been paying attention the last few years, greatness, at its highest level was most certainly out of reach. The difference is in simply not discounting the affect coaching, mentorship, teaching has on an athlete. And the only way you can think Lock is toast, is if you beleive that's the case... that somehow, every qb should be able to show growth and progress regardless of the coordinator, HC, position coach, etc.
This retooling was necessary. Moving on was necessary. A dip is absolutely expected, and welcomed to get is to where we should have been for the last 3 years.