Carroll is killing this team

The Seahawks now have the talent to be a competitive playoff team.

Unfortunately, poor coaching may cause this team us to miss the postseaason entirely.

Pete Carroll's NFL teams always seem to settle around .500 bty season's end.

Seattle should be contending for the division lead at this point. Instead, we find ourselves clinging ever feebly to the second wild card with a pack of surging confernce rivals at our heels.

This team keeps every game close. It is good that we've never been blown out. However, we fail to put away inferior teams, and thus sometimes lose to them, as we did last week in Miami.

Carroll hasn't figured out how to get his team to play well on the road.

Carroll doesn't know how to manage injured players. Evidently, the decline of our run defense has been because badass Red Bryant has been slowed by injuries. When healthy, Bryant is dominant. When injured, he is just a body. We have other bodies on the roster. A wise coach would insert one of those and rest Bryant until he is ready to dominate again. Instead, Carroll kept him in, our defense suffered, and Bryant has now aggravated the injury.

I blame Carroll for the upcoming probable suspensions of Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner. I earnestly hope that our cornerbacks are as innocent as they claim, but even if they are, they probably can't escape suspension. (Consider the sad case of David Vobora as related by Danny O'Neill in today's Seattle Times.)

Even if Sherman and Browner escape punishment, the fact remains that Seattle has had more players nailed for performance-enhancing drugs under Carroll than under any previous coach. This is no coincidence. Carroll ran a dirty program at USC. There was never any reason to believe that a college coach with no moral core could be anything other than ethically cancerous in the NFL.