furi0usbee":1ujbtsue said:
Do you guys think Pete Carroll may have a hard time keeping this game all business, and not delving into a personal mission to beat his former team/employer? Carroll always had success early in the season with us, but fell off the radar at the end. Obviously he would love to win the game for the game's sake, but I wonder if he will try a little bit harder to show us up.
I think it being his former team/employer has entered his mind. I don't know how closely you have followed the Seahawks, but Carroll and Harbaugh have had a deep-seated enmity going to back to their time at USC and Stanford. And up to last year, Harbaugh was the heralded NFL coach with 3 NFCC games under his belt and media swinging from his...media adulation. I didn't detect any inferiority in preparation for the SF games.
So take a Seahawk fan's opinion with whatever degree of seriousness you decide makes sense, but this year Pete is a Superbowl champion, universally recognized as a great defensive mind, and so my reading is that the greater pressure on Pete will be the historical ramifications of trying to repeat as champion.
I think at the level of the Superbowl, the stakes are so high that sphincters just cannot get any tighter and that includes the deflation storyline. But if he does win, I do think at some point afterwards it'll tickle him to have beaten the Patriots.