8-31-2022
Now that the Seahawks 53 man roster is more or less set, here’s a few more points about Geno.
The coaches KNOW it’s only preseason and that there’s going to be a lot of shifting in players and whatnot over those few weeks.
I want everyone here to stop thinking like a basic football coach, player, or fan and START thinking like a Mastery Level Grand Strategist General of a Napoleonic stature.
Football is a game literally founded on WAR…ALL sports are just regulated reflections of actual war in some way with the games themselves being battles of combat….SOMETIMES, folks, YOU HAVE TO LOSE THE BATTLES TO WIN THE WARS.
WAR, itself, is really just a game ….so is Poker….and ALL games are played with deceptions, ruses, tricks, misinformation, misdirection, bait, CONfidence games, flanking maneuvers, and foot soldiers who are deliberately sent to their deaths so that others can (more predictably) win.
So….people are saying that Geno isn’t..I don’t know….”flashy” enough, or somehow doesn’t play with “heart” or “passion” and all that…..well…he doesn’t (didn’t) have to to win the job….also, he never NEEDED to take RISKS because in PRESEASON the final score DOESN’T MATTER …in FACT, it would predictably be in a Team’s interest to NOT be flashy.
Geno plays football with as good a poker face at QB as I’ve ever seen in my life.
We do NOT want other teams to know our FULL playbooks…so, someone who ALSO gets it, back me up on this, but preseason is a time for BASIC FOOTBALL to MEASURE guys at the EXTREMES of a depth chart…and when/if those guys get cut, we don’t want them to take our playbook to other teams to be exploited and used against us.
So, the plays are basic, boring, unrevealing, and often designed to create deception to give other teams bad information about our team.
Coaches and players will often SAY “one game at a time” or ridiculous feel-good nonsense like “next man up”…or my all time favorite “football is a game of inches”
If you’re laughing at this post, or worse, if you didn’t even bother reading it….then you aren’t getting it, and you’re probably never going to get it….and you’ll never be more than a common foot soldier who is being manipulated on a chest board by people who do.
but those over-quoted sayings are really just COVENIENTLY REDUCED WORDISMS for COMMON PLEBES to HANG THEIR HOPES ON
…and they do not reflect reality
At 50 years old, having watched and/or played football since the Carter Administration, I have never seen a better poker player than Pete Carroll …truly.
And those of you who believe this ridiculous foot-soldier nonsense about him being too old, or out-dated, out of touch, or dimented….man….you’re all just the tip of the spear who are easily piled up on the field of battle, willingly sacrificing yourselves so that others can win.
See link for JUST ONE reference, you might want to take a gander at…although, (if you bothered to even get this far) if you could read books, you probably wouldn’t so easily believe the common bullshit, especially the media misinformation zietgeist.
Reference of War: On War by Prussin General, Carl von Clausewitz (1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831)