I keep hearing narratives for supporting Pete and the status quo, such as “never get tired of winning” after an uninspiring win, but fans are simply trying to have an honest conversation about the short comings and flaws of the team, and where we can go from here to be a legit Superbowl contender. It’s not that we are inherently pessimistic, but that there are certain expectations and the goal is to win a title. It’s absurd that that notion gets misconstrued to entitlement. Let’s be honest, the Seattle media asks Pete very soft questions most of the time, and ownership doesn’t exactly hold him accountable. We need to draft a qb and consider the future, as there’s a lot of talent on this team for it to be playing this poorly, and Pete isn’t going to be here forever.
The “regular season winning” discourse over the years just feels like a copout and almost condescending, we’ve been a one and done team in the playoffs for quite some time. This team has streaks and ends up failing to adjust schematically, such as abandoning running the ball or not using play action or screens, barely beating inferior opponents. I recognize wins are difficult in the NFL, but this team simpy has too much talent to play this poorly. Good teams aren’t this inconsistent, and I seriously question Waldron’s ability as a play caller.
Hell, even on the play Geno was hurt, the coaching staff was trying to be clever and decided to substitute offensive lineman (I presume for resting reasons in regards to Thursday night), I believe it was on the right side (either RG or RT, perhaps both?), as soon as that happened Aaron Donald took advantage (which is asinine considering the starting unit was protecting Geno well enough throughout the game).
The entire point is striving to win another Superbowl, not be in purgatory of good, not great for several seasons. I would take a Superbowl win even if it meant being bad for a few seasons.
End rant.
Thank you and sorry for your forthcoming downvotes. Seriously, I get that losing sucks, it really does, but when you can’t beat the Rams or Whiners what is the point of anything else? I am so tired of not feeling like this team has that crazy drive that it used to. Didnt matter how big the game was I always felt like the Hawks were hungry and ready until about 2017 when it started feeling more and more like we were just putting duct tape over problems and singing the party line of everything is fine, Pete got us a Superbowl, and a playoff birth is all we can ask for.
Honestly this season would be so much easier to swallow if we hadn’t given up picks for Williams, and leveraged our future with a few contract restructures. Not to mention we are likely to finish just good enough to not be in the running for any of the top 5 QBs in the draft. And who knows how we are going to afford to keep everyone next year. Ughh it feels like the treadmill of futility. At least during the Russ era I always thought anything was possible. Now it feels like unless we have a ton of good luck we arent winning against even easy opponents.