We all love the Seahawks and football. We all want to see them win a Super Bowl again, I think I didn’t stop smiling for the entire Spring and Summer of 2014. But what makes you enjoy being a fan the most? Personally, I love being able to cheer for a competitive team. A team that has a chance to win every week, and you know will be playing meaningful games in December. I know everybody’s different in their fandom and there is no right or wrong answer to this, it’s completely subjective, but what makes you the happiest as a football fan?
So the question is, would you prefer the Seahawks perform to the level they have the last several seasons: meaning winning seasons, always competitive, but can’t quite seem to ever get over that hump in the playoffs and kick it into second gear, always feeling like they’re one offseason away from being a true contender? OR having 3, 4, 5 seasons of losing football with a shorter window for deep playoff success, largely due to routine high draft positioning?
I ask this because personally, I feel like a lot of current Seahawks fans are spoiled. I’m in my 30s now and have been a Seahawks fan my entire life. And I can honestly say I’m enjoying every moment of this Pete and John run program while it’s here, because I’ve lived through true mediocrity and irrelevancy. I completely understand the argument for wanting to move on from Pete and trying something new, but I’m genuinely curious what people realistically want out of this team as a fan, what makes you happy, and what you consider to be a successful season. And please don’t say winning the Super Bowl every year, because that is not how life works.
Agreed. This latest stretch of games is an aberration overall. It’s absolutely ludicrous to me to imply that we’ve made the playoffs something like 9 of the last 12 years in spite of the best coach in franchise history like some have suggested. So many franchises would kill to have a coach whose floor is playoff contender, and though his bell curve is certainly skewed to the left a bit it’s just a fact that his ceiling is deep playoff run or even a ring.
If there’s a credible succession plan in place – if we can get Ben Johnson or if Stan Kroenke fires McVay or something – then let’s pull the trigger. But after 12 years of instilling a truly unique and deeply-bred culture that has come to define not only our organizational identity but on-the-field play, Pete is this team. Firing him means either replacing that or wandering the wilderness until you get the right guy. So if the guy’s there, let’s do it. But I’m not gonna risk a Josh McDaniels or a Nate Hackett or a Matt Nagy over a three-game skid to some elite teams.