Sgt. Largent":1xqmz4kj said:
Spin Doctor":1xqmz4kj said:
I'm frustrated. Carroll squandered one of the best teams of all time, and what we've been witnessing is a slow decline into mediocrity.
Can I ask what your pre-season expectations of this team was back in August? Jesus, we just went 10-6, made the playoffs in a rebuild year. Sorry, "re-tool."
Slow decline into mediocrity? I have news for you, this is the BEST it's ever going to be in our lifetime, so knock off the hyperbolic hand wringing and enjoy the ride. It's freaking HARD to win the NFL, REALLY hard.
We are one of the lucky few, look around the league. From top to bottom we're a top 2-3 organization with a fantastic ownership group, GM, coach that give us great chances to make the playoffs each and every year and hopefully continue to rebuild the next great Hawk team to get back to another SB.
Have a little perspective, and stop dwelling on one playoff game, or one negative aspect of how Pete coaches. He's sure as hell not perfect, but he's a great coach. Have faith, it's so much more fun.
I thought we were going to go anywhere from 7-9 to 9-7 with a chance at a playoff birth if we established a running game, and one of our wide receivers stepped up. The team wasn't as bad as people thought. Many of these guys were shown to be decent players in 2017. Key pieces such as Reed, Griffin (though he regressed), Carson, and our safeties actually played decent football whenever they were in. the year prior. Coleman was also a sleeper that played a role as nickle cornerback this year. In 2017 he ranked as one of the highest rated nickle cornerbacks in terms of DVOA.
As far as Super Bowl goes, not ever going to happen underneath Pete. As I said, he's going to be a 10-6, 9-7 sort of coach from here on out. That is how it has been since 2015, there is nothing to suggest things are going to change. We're under .500 in the playoffs since 2015. His issue is, while he's really good at setting up a program, he is not a great in game coach when he gets thrown off his game plan. He also is particularly stubborn when it comes to his offenses. His time management especially is atrocious. I feel as if he needs to become a Tomlin type of a coach. Tomlin sets up the overall program, and is obviously the leader. He sets up the overall game plan, and direction of the team, and just leaves his coordinators to do their jobs. I think Carroll would be successful in this type of a role.
Unfortunately though Carroll is a tease. He is like a sexy woman that acts like she wants to do the dirty deed with you. She keeps giving you the signs, but in the end she is just teasing, and toying with you. This is Carroll's coaching regime. So capable in many ways, yet inept in others. People keep talking about how we got to the Super Bowl last time, and "the winning formula" but that was 6 years ago. The situation was much different. It was a combination of some of the best draft classes of all time, and rookie contracts all around combined with a large sum of cash that allowed us to pick up Bennett, Avril, and a handful of role players, plus a defensive scheme that was unconventional in the NFL. The likely hood of that ever happening again? Slim to none.