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Fire Pete Carroll
Amazing coach. Inspiring man. Very grateful the Hawks hired him.
But the game has passed him by.
His refusal to play in the first half is predictable, boring, exhausting and killing this team.
Every year you keep Pete is a year you are wasting the prime of an inner circle HOF QB.
This is all you need to know.
@FirePete
But the game has passed him by.
His refusal to play in the first half is predictable, boring, exhausting and killing this team.
Every year you keep Pete is a year you are wasting the prime of an inner circle HOF QB.
This is all you need to know.
@FirePete
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I also wouldn't say the game has passed him by. His ability to keep this team afloat after the mass attrition of 2017-2018 is pretty fucking impressive, and frankly I put more blame on Schneider's shoulders for consistent draft whiffs on the defense and offensive line (yes obviously Carroll played his own role in evaluating these guys) than Pete making in-game blunders.
The OL issues are all on Pete's philosophy. He wants to run the ball so they select OL who can run block and not pass block.
Pete's the defensive coach but the defense has been very bad for a couple of years now.
Maybe the game hasn't passed him by but he has been unwilling to adapt to his personnel and still coaches like he has an elite defense when they aren't anything close to elite. He still coaches like he has a mediocre QB when he has a great one.
If he would build the team around it's greatest strength it would have a real shot.
He won't though.
The point is that they have the same gameplan in every playoff game whether on the road or at home and it flat out isn't working on the road.
The whole world knows exactly what Seattle will do in the first half. They make adjustments at halftime but the whole is too deep.
He overthrew DK on the first drive, and had some terrible clock management on the last drive of the first half (which how much of that is him and how much is Pete is always debatable). He wasn't perfect but he would have been a lot better than 3 points if he was allowed to be.
I expected Russ to be a big problem in this game due to the cold. He wasn't. He played well enough to win.
Pete didn't coach well enough to win.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
And I'm not opposed to dialing back Pete's personnel responsibilities. I also don't disagree with your criticism, I think that's what's preventing this team from being elite. But I'm not jumping anywhere near the #firepete bandwagon.
You win multiple in a short time or you are one and done according to history. Wilson is too good to let this continue.
Won their next in 14
Good is often the enemy of great. Tomlin and Carroll have proven at this point they aren't great coaches anymore.
There are certain things with his scheme that have proven to be ineffective. We obviously need great DB’s. Even in the LOB days, when we had one guy that wasn’t good, teams would pick on them all day. Simon in the SuperBowl against the Pats was the biggest culprit.
Flowers would be a good 5th or 6th DB. He’s no starting CB for a contender.
Since we know we didn’t have the defense, let Russ go. The ground and pound bullshit only works in the NFL if you have a great defense. Ours was below average.