It’s very hard for Rob to be wrong.

Rob is a pessimist and usually points out all the things that can go wrong or things that aren’t great and could be better.

Nearly every football team is flawed in a few key ways. If you keep pointing out flaws, eventually one will come to pass and end the season in disappointment. This is how 28 of the 32 teams finish that don’t get to a conference championship. And even if they do, you can always wait until next season to bring up your old takes that X was the problem.

Rob is therefore nearly always right in general that things aren’t going perfectly for the Seahawks and change is needed. But if you ever pin him down on what that change is beyond firing Pete and jettisoning Geno, it gets very hazy and questionable (since he doesn’t get schemes and really understand the tape he’s watching beyond the vibes he’s seeing).

On a previous video he said Seahawks need to do the following:

• Get “genuine blue chip players”. Of course he overlooks that this is something 31 other teams are trying to do so either you luck out in the draft or you have to give up a haul to trade for them or eke out a huge salary cap to get them in free agency. And he’s laid in to the Seahawks for the Clowney rental, the Adams trade and the Williams trade. So in reality his criticism is “you need to get blue chip players but not those ones” / making “genuine” do all the lifting.

• “Move the money from the secondary into the trenches”. This feels again like a 20-20 hindsight critique. Eagles have done the opposite and are getting outgained in yards and could easily lose thanks to their secondary. If that were us, he’d then say we need to move the trenches back to the secondary because it’s a passing league. His criticism really isn’t schematic more that sometimes players just don’t execute how you expect. On paper our defense should be lockdown

• “Get an elite QB”. Again easier said than done. And easy to trot out with 95% of the QBs we could have had. Look at QB play and it’s across the board down this season. Look at the QB we could have drafted: AR5 and he’s hurt. Look at how the Niners could have been in Trey Lance hell. Again this is criticism that will nearly always land but is about as helpful and luck dependent as saying we just need to get to the postseason and anything could happen! He doesn’t specify what he wants from a QB - mobility, accuracy etc - just says I trust John Schneider. I guess this is because he doesn’t understand the position well enough to stick his neck out even though he tries to do a mock draft board each year.