For those of you who don’t look at these things, the NFL is basically rigged to keep teams from having multiple winning championships over time and these rules were established in 1994 (mostly) to create what the NFL calls “Parity” over the league….it’s worked really great (if only MLB could figure this one out now), and it allowed for small market teams to compete for top talent, not just in Free Agency, but also for coaches…it’s also the main reason why the Seahawks organization has been so successful with Holmgren and Carroll in this time (mostly).
So, it begs the question, how did the Patriots win so many SBs in all this time since? For one, these rules actually allowed the Pats to finally compete for SBs because of what I previously stated, so that’s what got them there in the first place….in the aftermath of what we now know was the Bill Belicheck and Tom Brady eras, it’s pretty clear NOW, given all the data that we have, that we KNOW exactly how to hack these rules, especially the Salary Cap, you simply can’t have a greedy QB that takes too much of the Cap space in his contracts…these factors have killed nearly every team since 1994 who have made this mistake, as we all know with what Russell Wilson did to us.
In fact, if you know where to look, we KNOW, thanks to Tom Brady, what the EXACT Cap Hit a QB can’t exceed in order to keep a team in winning form over multiple years and that is the magic number of 12% (ironically, yep, it’s a 12 lol)
Tom Brady has NEVER asked for MORE THAN 12% in his contracts, and in fact, in that one year he did, they didn’t have a great team either.
So, literally, folks….NOTHING ELSE MATTERS MORE THAN THIS ONE FACTOR…..what the media is telling you, if they’re NOT telling you this (and they would never even touch this one because numbers and basic math scares people and does not pay the advertising bills), then you KNOW your media sources are total shite.
In just one example here, THIS was what Pete Carroll was working to create in the aftermath of the RW3 trade….a grand strategy, based on mathematical certainties, that will now never come to fruition, because Jody Allen, like many of you, got triggered by some BS she saw on TV.
We were crushed last season by basically two things….youth and injuries (are injuries head coaches’ fault?)….the youth is a big deal because we had so much of it over the whole team, given the grand wealth of pure TALENT that they drafted from the RW3 trade (can we all just start calling it “The Trade” now?).
So, Pete Carroll’s greatness was in people management and people development …fans hate patience, but patience is the most important factor when it comes to great leadership and stewardship of developing people and creating processes over time that will keep paying out grand dividends.
While you and the media is screaming about “poor tackling” and manufacturing base-brained human interest stories about Jamal Adams not being able to cover (or whatever BS they said about him), PC is constantly thinking about Human Psychology, Synaptic Pruning, Heuristic Mechanisms, and Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (Learning Theory).
You are welcome to Google any one of those things, I promise you they are real and anyone at the head of their class in Human Development circles are well aware of them….and we now know that Jody Allen isn’t aware of them because she could obviously NEVER see or imagine what winning people who manage and create other winning people can see.
Great Leaders create other Great Leaders
It really is just basic math here….because Pete Carroll is now gone and the player love for him around the world would be worth shedding just a few dollars from contracts just because true professionals want to work for people who will help build them up and make them great in all phases of human capacity…mind, body, and spirit…..NOW…the ONLY way we are going to get top talent here is by the old fashion mon-key-brained way of triggering the greed instincts ….yep, GREED is how this new team is going to be founded on, and you will NEVER win CHAMPIONSHIPS when your players are only here from their GREED
ALL Seahawk fans should know and understand this fully well by now.
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” – Hyman Rickover
(please Google this great man and leader, Hyman Rickover…he alone is why we aren’t saluting a Communist flag right now and I highly doubt you’ve ever even heard of him)