keasley45
Well-known member
I dont know that it's always rwiling against Wilson as much as it is railing against the notion that without Wilson, we are nothing. This forum tends to in some cases try to default to a shallow, debate around a binary set of choices that just don't make sense. Run vs Pass, defensive philosophy vs innovative offense, Russ vs Pete. Lines are drawn and the sky is always falling in the scenario a person doesn't favor.I think a lot of this is people trying to desperately convince themselves that without Wilson, we still are relevant because Carroll is still here.
Maybe that is true.
Not sure what the upside is even if Carroll can somehow get the team competitive in 2-3 years though. Carroll can't last much longer regardless. We have already seen he does a horrific job of hiring assistants - maybe this time it will work out after all those failures though.
I think Carroll's capability and competence is suspect at this point. But even if it isn't, then what? Carroll gets us to barely a playoff team in a few years, and then who takes over?
It feels like we are just prolonging the inevitable here. Maybe we can eek a few years of slightly above-average football out.
But the railing against Wilson seems very committed. Almost like people are trying to convince themselves that somehow we have any kind of future without a QB, maybe by deluding themselves that Wilson held us back.
It is almost funny to watch.
That's a rather myopic view of the game of football that seems to assign value based on casual view of a sport that is significantly more complex than what can be gleaned from a TV screen on a Sunday afternoon, a highlight reel, or general statistical analysis.
Same goes for the evaluation of our draft performance as a wholesale failure, that ignores the context for why decisions were made. That doesn't excuse a poor personnel decision, but it also isn't necessarily a foreshadowing of how the front office will perform under a completely different set of criteria, modified philosophy, new salary cap reality, and in all honesty, the benefit of more experience.
Truth is, we've got one hell of a franchise that had one hell of a qb... one helluva team here for a good period. It's been as good as it can get, and there have been shortfalls and disappointments. But in no instance did the credit for our success or fault for our failure lay entirely at the feet of one player, or one coach. The team has risen and fallen, collectively.
It will without a doubt be great again and I believe that will happen much sooner than later. The pieces are just to good in my opinion to predict otherwise unless in this new era of seahawks ball, we show a complete inability to adapt. We haven't taken our first step into that reality yet. But predicting our performance in any way is much more an exercise in evaluating the 'grey' areas of the board, than trying to spin a discussion around the 'black and white'.