NFL Betting – Seattle Just Keeps On Trying

The Seattle Seahawks have been trying to get back to the Super Bowl ever since the team was robbed of its Super Bowl glory by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the referees, in Super Bowl XL. The betting sites have watched as the Seahawks have tried desperately to put together an organization that can propel the team to glory yet again, but the Seahawks are starting to resemble a team that is basing its future on names more than ability.

A couple of years ago, the team brought in head coach Pete Carroll to try and turn the franchise’s fortunes around. Most sports betting online experts consider Carroll a great college coach, but that does not always translate to the NFL. A good case in point is the Steve Spurrier debacle inWashington. Carroll has seen nothing but futility as an NFL coach. He inherited a Bill Parcells team that he took to the playoffs inNew England. But once the team started to become dismantled, Carroll lost his touch and was fired.

In his first year as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Carroll took the team to the NFC West title and a first round upset of the New Orleans Saints. But what the record books also show is that the 2010 Seattle Seahawks were the worst division winning team in the history of the NFL. The sports pay per head experts want to pat Carroll on the back for a job well done, but all the Seahawks really were was an embarrassment.

A good team needs a good quarterback, and the Seahawks let its best quarterback go when it did not re-sign Matt Hasselbeck. Since Hasselbeck left, the Seahawks have been rotating between Charlie Whitehurst and Tavaris Jackson. Neither player has shown that he has the ability to be a leader and neither player has shown that he has what it takes to make the Seahawks a winner.

Then the Seahawks signed promisingGreen Baybackup Matt Flynn during this most recent off-season. Head coach Pete Carroll could have put instant stability in the lineup and made his bosses look good for signing Flynn by just making Flynn the starting quarterback for the opening of training camp. But in true Carroll wishy-washy style, he announces that there will be an open quarterback competition in training camp. The two unproven quarterbacks with no promise and very little upside will be put on the same level as the very expensive and very promising young newcomer. That is the kind of decision making that has prevented Pete Carroll from being a winning NFL coach.

A 5dimes review shows that about the only things that the Seahawks have going for it in 2012 is running back Marshawn Lynch and the defensive line. Everything else inSeattle needs a complete overhaul. Carroll needs to give the ball to Flynn and make Flynn the starting quarterback. The team needs to go out in free agency and get come cornerbacks that can actually cover someone. But none of these moves have been made.

If the Seahawks are not careful, it will have to watch as the St. Louis Rams (under new head coach Jeff Fisher) become the team to challenge theSan Francisco49ers for the NFC West title. There was promise inSeattlenot too long ago. But the changes the team has made in the past few years have turned that promise into shattered dreams.