Rants and Raves 2024 Edition

No thanks

 

10 years ago I'd be all about it. Seahawks were in playoff contention every year. But it's too late now. I think it's still worth interviewing him and picking his brain.

 

Agreed. Talk to him? Sure.

Constant Playoff contention sounds nice till you start to look closer at moves he made after the Super Bowl win. He and John Schneider have made a lot more bad decisions than good. Russell Okung got hurt, and replacing an elite OT isn’t easy, but he dropped a 1st round pick on Germaine Ifedi. Remember that bum? I do. Seattle cut bait with him quickly, then he ended up here, especially useless.

Trading away 25 year old Frank Clark coming off 13 sacks because you blew all your FA money in 2018 on 29 year old S Brandon MacDougald and KJ Wright, who was injured, 30, and since his Super Bowl performance was pretty ineffective at LB wasn’t a smart idea. The guys he drafted with the 1st and 2nd round picks he got in return aren’t on the roster, and the 1st round DE he drafted with 2019 KC’s pick isn’t on the roster, and didn’t get his first sack in a Seahawks uniform until 2022.

He hired Shane Waldron to call plays. How’d that turn out?

And as feel-good as the story was, spending prime draft picks on twin Shaq Griffin brothers (I forget which one was missing a hand between Shaquille vs Shaquem) but for 3 years, the one without a hand had to step into starting LB a lot due to injury and aging talents and he was picked on. The one missing a hand is out of the league and the brother is in Minnesota after making his way through 4 teams. That feel good shit is something the McCaskeys would love, but results in the win column won’t be a lot different than what we’re seeing now.

I really like how Carroll handled WRs. He’s not constantly spending prime draft picks or resources and got a lot out of a decade of DK, Lockett, Kearse, Doug Baldwin, Paul Richardson, and one more I’m forgetting. The bears spend #9 overall on WR3 and Carroll found guys just as effective 3rd round and later.

Carroll was the first guy to start constantly bringing in guys off the streets to work out, and at the end, Pace started doing the same things. I like that, but again—short term with Carroll he will turn over the roster, likely putting the team further away from contention longer then 2-3 years later when he’s 76/77, what’s going to happen then after a couple more rough seasons? He’ll be long gone and the bears will be right back where they started.

He’s a weasel, the type you probably hate playing against but if he was your guy you’d love him. This guy needs an established team who needs a coach to get over the hump. The bears are nowhere close to that.