The unde-Peted Seahawks are alive and well

If you still feel Pete Carroll was holding the Seahawks back then your opinion is more reflective of your desire to be right than it is the information that is available.

The De-Peters have to admit they were wrong, right?

I’m not saying there needs to be a formal declaration of this fact or some sort of mea culpa on the town square, but there must be at least a general acknowledgment that these folks were wro …

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At least slightly misguided in their thinking the Seahawks were making a franchise-changing mistake by trading their quarterback this offseason if changing coaches would have kept him in town. I’m not going to say most Seahawks fans felt that way or even all that many did, but there were enough of them to constitute at least their own corner of Seattle fans.

The most critical of this group went so far as to accuse Carroll of malpractice with the offense. Sure, Seattle had made the playoffs in nine of Carroll’s 12 seasons as head coach, but the Seahawks hadn’t been past the divisional round of the playoffs since 2014 in large part because of Carroll’s abject refusal to maximize the value of the most precious commodity in pro sports: the franchise quarterback.

I’ll admit that this argument was persuasive. Even if I didn’t buy it entirely, I could see the merit.