Pete Carroll Seattle Seahawks

Listening to numerous sports talk radio shows the last couple of days, I’ve heard numerous comments from beer bellied, Internet trolls who are disgusted by the fact that Pete Carroll has been named the VP and head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. He coached two NFL teams 10 years ago and failed. So that means he can’t succeed now?

The Internet trolls are forgetting that with age comes wisdom. Everyone who takes on a new venture is bound to encounter failure(s) along the way. Nobody starts out as a hamburger whore at McDonald’s and then moves up to the CEO position overnight. We live, we work, we learn. We get better.

UW Husky coach Steve Sarkesian is the wonderboy of the campus. Remember where he learned his job? From Pete Carroll. And Carroll is not going into this venture alone. Seahawks owner Paul Allen and his staff has made it very clear that the team intends to retain a General Manager who compliments-not dominates-Pete Carroll. This is something the Seahawks failed to achieve during the last 10 years. The coach wanted one thing, the general manager wanted something else. So they fought behind closed doors and the team now sucks because of it.

There’s one point that I think is valid and maybe no one discusses it because it’s sensitive and a bit morbid. Seahawks owner Paul Allen is fighting cancer. He could whip it like he did years ago. But he might not. Maybe… Just maybe… Paul Allen is contemplating the idea that he could live to be 90, or he might not live another 5 years. Maybe this guy who loves his community so much has decided he doesn’t want his team win the Super Bowl after his passing-whenever that is. I would feel the same way. Maybe… Just maybe… He, more than anything, wants to be on the field when the Seahawks accept the Vince Lombardi award on the field. Maybe we’d all like to see Paul Allen there too.

The people in the Seahawks front office are smarter than the beer belly armchair quarterbacks and the internet trolls give them credit for. The winners in battles are not those who sit on their butts and accept the status quo. They take chances sometimes. Assuming the Seahawks hire a General Manager who has the same mindset as Paul Allen, this could be the best crazy decision the Seahawks have ever made.

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