keasley45
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Sgt. Largent":zreqn4dd said:keasley45":zreqn4dd said:Fade":zreqn4dd said:It's Pete. He is the skipper of this ship, if he doesn't like what's going on he changes it. Someone steps out of line, they're gone. He has more power than any other coach in the NFL. Belichick has just as much power, but Pete has the advantage of no ownership accountability. Pete is pretty much the owner of the Seahawks as it pertains to football operations.
No one can tell him "No."
Ok then. Cool. Problem solved. So let's either strip him of his totalitarian authority, or just fire him.
S.O.
Problem not solved, that's Fade's point.
It is Pete, so you can spin this however you want but this is Pete's team, every nook and cranny of the organization from top to bottom is exactly in Pete's control.
There is no solution, other than hope the stars align and we can get lucky and win another SB despite Pete's meddling in his plain vanilla predictable offensive philosophies with whoever the next yes man O-coordinator he hires is.
Use whatever circular logic you want to, it's Pete.
I was being sarcastic.
And i dont believe its a matter of luck as to whether we succeed again or not.
Thats the whole point of this thread. I just dont subscribe to the theory that its this persons fault, so if we just get rid of them, its fixed, r that the whole situation is hopeless because Pete, Russ or whoever the OC is isnt goiing anywhere or has little accountability.
Folks say we got too conservative and ran too much over the 2ns half, when facts show we wtill past more than we have in the past, but less effectively
People say that the o-line needs to be blown up, but in reality they performed better than avg.
There are words and theories and there are facts.
For those who think Pete is ruling with an iron glove and just wants what he wants, this past year, pete was praising the performance of Russ and Schotty, until the wheels came off. And btw, the wheels came off BEFORE Pete said anything about running more. He was responding to failure and attributing that faiklure to the fact that we werent running the ball well, and that the evidence showed that given Russ's performance, the defenses we were facing, that trying force a pass game that was floundering without a ground game, was dumb. And given what we can obviously see on tape, smart.
To me, its also entirely logical. Not a power grab. His assessment is that given what Russ is showing, pushing a stronger rushing attack is the way to go. And given the fact that defenses lacked respect for our running game (and the odds of Russ burning them with underneath passes) enough to basically stay in cover 2 week after week, how can you argue that?
And, he is the head coach.
But we also cant pin it on Russ entiirely, because as much as we can get on him for the evidence that we saw week in and week out on tape of him missing read after read, we cant say for certain that Schotty did the best job of identifying what Russ was struggling with and getting plays in that worked, not just for the game, but of his QB. Its already been made clear that while we left a ton on the field in terms of plays that might have worked, we also, inexplicably didnt move the pocket well to protect Russ, call enough screens, or quick passes. Why EXACTLY? you dont know. i dont know, we dont know. The tape shows what it shows and thats a passing game that was floundering EVEN when the plays were there to be had. But Schotty certainly wasnt running Pete Carrols offense or calling plays that Pete sent in.
Personally, if its my team and i'm giving the reigns to an OC and QB to get the team to success and they keep advocating for a pass game thats not wrking when it should, you try to fix it. And like i said, the stats dont lie, we still threw more on 1st down in the last 8 weeks of the season than we did on average in seasons past. So the narrative that Pete torpedoed the season because he pushed some ultra conservative plan and the team suffered because of it simply has no factual basis.
Its a product of the engrained Pete v Russ v Coordinator narrative that's been here for years and lazily and inaccurately attributed to every failure the team has. From the evidence that exists, not speculation, but facts, the strategy to run more is 100% logical when assessing the performance of the team under RW and Schotty this season.