NFC West: Seattle Seahawks

They are in FULL BLOWN panic mode in SeaHag-Ville! I have never seen such utter panic and confusion as I saw on their blog, our sister blog on the SB Nation. Now I can’t even find what the name of their dumb and slow blog is this morning. I think it was the dirty feathers or something like that. Anyway, they were posting PICS of the TWEETS of players who were being shuttled out of town or players who have been with the team for a while. Tweets like “WTF is Management doing, these moves make no SENSE!” and “What a Farking Disaster” Tweets are posted so that you can see visually WHO made the post and at what time! The rest of the players think that the new coach is just clearing house and is cutting vet players with talent left and right just because they belonged to the old regime.

I think that is a VERY POOR way to do things, but Pete Carol doesn’t have the best PRO record of all time. I guess after his last PRO gig, Carol wrote in his Notebook, “Get RID of Every Single Player who you dont think will fit your system Immediately or you will suffer and be fired in 3 years!”, because he is just going through and systematically cutting players with no replacement, replacing players with inferior talent and cutting old players. Keeping rookies and cutting expensive vets that are signing on elsewhere because they still have TALENT. In fact, it appears that TALENT has no bearing on whether you are getting the AX or not in Seattle and I think that is REALLY PISSING who is LEFT OFF! Not to mention the players that are getting canned because Pete waited to cut loose several talented players with TALENT so VERY late in the process that they may not get jobs until mid season in some cases. Those players HATE Pete Carol right about now, and will forever come back to haunt the SeaHags! I think Carol is totally screwing up like Danielson in Denver. TOO MUCH power and just cleaning house not to improve the talent level, but to get RID of players you dont agree with or dont think will listen, or may not fit your system. In the NFL, they have names for coaches like Carrol, they are called “Canned in 2 years”.

I TRULY think that Carrol is making a career suicide move by purging his roster like the pogroms by the Commies in RUSSIA just eliminating players not because they lack TALENT, but they dont agree with your coaching abilities. TALENT is the HARDEST thing to obtain and retain in the NFL. You can NOT win without talent, not consistently anyway (See Oakland Faiders). If you do NOT have talent in the NFL, you are a doormat team who will get walked over at home and on the road without mercy. AND, when the players on your team see the Coach in PANIC mode just PURGE the roster because he wants to bring in his OWN GUYS despite the talent that is lost is a HUGE thing that the players left on the team will NEVER forget. AND, much like that DIPWAD Daniels in Denver, Carrol will forever be linked to this Mass Purging of talent. Every time they lose a game because of a lack of talent, the story of the 2010 Sweet Pete TALENT PURGE will be brought up again and again till the ownership must rid themselves of the Cancer. Carrol is a pretty good X’s and O’s coach, and his defenses are always prepared and innovative. BUT from all reports, he has totally left the Defensive side of the ball alone other to PURGE talent that they are unable to replace. Now they have huge holes in their defensive line that gets no pressure on the other team and their defensive secondary where they cut vets who were able to perform and a decent level and replaced them with either inferior talent or rookies!

To me seems like they WANT to lose this year and get a good QB next year in the draft. BUT, how does it make the players who are getting older and are now just at the beginning of a "REBUILD’ situation in Seattle? The “R” word is now being used by the Main Newspaper Beat reporter in the Sports section to describe the situation. Players are TWEETING the “R” word to each other and to fans. You know, the “R” word is HATED by football fans because the average shelf life of a player is 5-7 years TOPS. If you are rebuilding, you star players wont be around to see any positive results.

The vets on the team all want OFF THE ISLAND. The last few vets traded right before cut down day seemed RELIEVED in their Tweets that they have escaped the BLACK HOLE that Carrol has created. Vet free agents wont go to Seattle because the Crappy treatment ownership showed the vets they purged as they were thrown out the door late in the pre season. The Vets on the team are going to be playing “Not to get Hurt”, which almost always ends in an injury. And dont even start about the Press and the Blogs associated with the Dirty Birdz… They are FLAMING P1ssed! You would think Carrol was the DEVIL the way the fans are posting over at the SeaHags blog. And the Beat Reporters in the Seattle Papers are totally going after this PURGE as a major concern. Hey, if it works and Carrol is able to recreate the team as a winner in 2 years then he is a genius. However NOTHING in his past pro record would indicate he has that sort of ability to change the mindset and the roster so fast and so many vets leaving. If Carrol was smart, he should have quietly rid himself of 1/4th the players who you thought were not any good. Replace them with players who will buy into the system. Continue to do that for a 2-3 year period and the team will have complete turnover anyway. BUT, the way he has chosen to Wipe the Slate is disturbing to the fans, has the PLAYERS totally lost because their Vet buddies got the AX and the players that are now on the team haven’t even PRACTICED together! WOW! Can you imagine? We have 2 rookies, a relatively new Center, a young player (Chilo) who needs some snaps to get better, and we as fans think our Offensive line is suspect and need time to GEL! WHAT would you then say about the SEA-Buzzards circling the Seattle Training Camp, where the turnover is such that the 5 guys LEFT on their Offensive Line have not had even ONE practice together, and the Fans wont recognize 2 of the 5 players starting! I think an interesting side bet is to bet which Offensive Line gets MORE false starts and Illegal Motions! I’d have to say that the Seattle O-Line is gonna win that dubious prize. Seattle fans are pissed, the Local Papers are ROASTING Carrol for his moves, what is left of the team is in disarray and are angry about the sudden Rebuild they find themselves in, and the Fans MUST buy a Roster at the game to find out who is playing where, who is left from last season (Approx 50% turnover from 2009). If the Seattle team wins 4 games this year, it will be a Miracle IMHO. They MAY come together a little at the end of the season and win a few meaningless games down the stretch against teams that have nothing to play for, but they wont win many competitive games. The O-Line will give up sacks and Hassleback is one hit away from taking the year off. He is as brittle as Chris “Chandelier” who used to play for the Rams when they were in LA. Great QB when healthy, but rarely played because he was made of Chrystal like a Chandelier! (his actual name was Chandler I believe). GOOD LUCK SEATTLE FANS! MAYBE NEXT YEAR…or 3 !!