Saturday, May 18, 2013

A case where I hate being right

In my last post, I mused about the peril of loading your roster with character-challenged athletes.

Defensive end Bruce Irvin, Seattle's 2012 first round pick, was one of those guys, a high school dropout with a disorderly conduct arrest during college.

Now comes the news that Irvin must sit out the first four regular season games this year because he got busted for using a banned performance-enhancing drug.

It's a good thing the Seahawks have loaded their roster with D-linemen. We'll certainly need that depth now, at least during the season's first quarter.


To his credit, Irvin's public statements on the matter sound appropriately contrite. I'd like to interpret that as evidence of some component of personal accountability in the player's value system and perhaps also in Coach Carroll's team culture.


2 comments:

  1. Yeah...it was a pretty bone-head move on his part. And he's going to miss a quarter of the season because of it.

    Unfortunately, Clemmons is also highly unlikely to show up in time for week one, meaning the "depth" we traded for in the off-season just became a pretty shallow area on the team. We'll have to see how it goes.

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  2. It's sad how fast we fell from embarrassment of pass rushing riches to possible pass rushing poverty.

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