Pete says he left to give John his opportunity

[cymatica]

That is the about same as calling a bear mauling an unprovoked attack after coming across it sleeping with its cubs, picking up a cub and then poking the adult with a stick.

It was coming right for us

 

[Seahawker]

You gotta add Hairball to that mix. I wanna see him continue to own Hairball.

I forgot about Jim, so 7 critical Raider games for the Seahawks to follow. lol
It would be nice to see Pete's Silver & Black upstarts curbstomp their division rivals at least once with a Cowboy beat-down being the cherry on top.

 

[IndyHawk]

Like I thought, Pete made the picks, trades and signed FAs that went downhill fast.

 

[Seahawker]

We had an eight year draft drought with high picks like,
Dwayne Eskridge-2
Jordyn Brooks-1
CJ Collier-1
Darrell Taylor-2
Marquise Blair-2
Malik McDowell-2

And a rash of bad FA signings,
Olsen, Graham, Joeckel, Lacy, C. Williams, Adams, Harvin and dare I say Matt Flynn?
I don't know who shoulders most of the blame, I just really don't want that sort of thing to go unchecked again.

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

He said “I could support the thought”

Concepts of a plan and such

 

[toffee]

The greatness of the whole event, Pete made the statement with a perfect straight face, a sincere voice, and all of that. Convincing, believable, all of that. One of many reasons why Pete is being paid tens of millions and ole toffee ain't.

 

[chris98251]

Pete has the ability to turn a turd into a polished artifact, how he views things, may not be reality all the time, but how he looks at everything. It works for his persona to think of things that way I wager.

 

[Seahawks Guy]

Do we know what the conversations were? Did they give Pete an ultimatum where he can either clean house including firing JS and keep his job or else take the fall and get canned?

 

[HawkRiderFan]

I will give Pete all the credit in the world for this: He seems to be aging a lot better than a certain current HC down at UNC right now

 

[Sperrydogg]

We had an eight year draft drought with high picks like,
Dwayne Eskridge-2
Jordyn Brooks-1
CJ Collier-1
Darrell Taylor-2
Marquise Blair-2
Malik McDowell-2

And a rash of bad FA signings,
Olsen, Graham, Joeckel, Lacy, C. Williams, Adams, Harvin and dare I say Matt Flynn?
I don't know who shoulders most of the blame, I just really don't want that sort of thing to go unchecked again.

Carry Williams bluhhww

 

[12th Dimension]

Do we put coaches in the ROH? I think he earned it. Super Bowl champs. Seeing Harbaugh go into meltdown mode was so satisfying.

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Do we know what the conversations were? Did they give Pete an ultimatum where he can either clean house including firing JS and keep his job or else take the fall and get canned?

Yes we don’t and probably didn’t do it as well.

 

[nwHawk]

Super Bowl, back to back appearances, the creation of legendary LOB, driving force to acquire Beast Mode. Yeah, he made a “forever” impact and bond with the 12’s and the city. He stayed too long, but the high’s were pretty damn good.

 

[JayhawkMike]

3 total playoff wins in NINE years since the lost Super Bowl for Pete. Never forget that. That also needs to be stamped on JS’s forehead too adding an extra year under the new coach. JS has been GM for TEN seasons since the lost Super Bowl and has THREE playoff wins.

Or if you want you can call it ONE playoff win in the last EIGHT years for JS which is accurate too.

 

[RiverDog]

I'll always be grateful to Pete for his having given us the best period of Seahawk football in franchise history, but if he believes that his departure was anything but performance related, he's in some serious denial. But it would be surprising if he is suffering from some sort of ego defense mechanism, having difficulty facing reality as he was in denial for his last 7 years with us, thinking that his/our teams were just a player or two away from championship caliber when the reality was that we were nothing more than run-of-the-mill mediocre.

 

[seabowl]

Look the reason why Pete said this is because of his ego. There is no way he was going to accept that the way he was coaching and managing the team was wrong. He was in denial to the end. That’s his make up, even in his press conferences he was almost always upbeat and thinking he’ll get it right in the end. Again, there was no way he was going to admit defeat.

 

[IndyHawk]

We had an eight year draft drought with high picks like,
Dwayne Eskridge-2
Jordyn Brooks-1
CJ Collier-1
Darrell Taylor-2
Marquise Blair-2
Malik McDowell-2

And a rash of bad FA signings,
Olsen, Graham, Joeckel, Lacy, C. Williams, Adams, Harvin and dare I say Matt Flynn?
I don't know who shoulders most of the blame, I just really don't want that sort of thing to go unchecked again.

It was Pete, he had the control and final say over everything.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Super Bowl, back to back appearances, the creation of legendary LOB, driving force to acquire Beast Mode. Yeah, he made a “forever” impact and bond with the 12’s and the city. He stayed too long, but the high’s were pretty damn good.

Enh… he stayed long enough.

 

[bileever]

No question Pete was fired as coach, and he's admitted as much in other interviews. I think what he's saying is that even though he was retained in an advisory capacity, he chose not to stick around last year so that Schneider could run the show. He could have done what Bruce Arians is doing as "head consultant" of the Bucs, but chose to get out of the way, and I think that was the right decision for everyone, espeically for Schneider and Macdonald.

Technically, Jody Allen announced it as a mutual decision, with Pete "agreeing" to change his role, but there is no other way to see it than a decision by the ownership and Schneider to move on from Pete.