Seahawks 2023 end-of-season fan survey

12 questions about the Seahawks that take you one minute: Seaside Joe 1773

I made a writer’s mistake.

In Monday’s edition of Seaside Joe, I wrote that one of the five mistakes that the Seahawks can’t make in 2024 is to be too complacent with their coaching staff, specifically the coordinators. In my view, these jobs have to be evaluated anew at the end of every season and given the likelihood of Pete Carroll staying on this year, the next two people to turn our attention to are Shane Waldron and Clint Hurtt.

Initially, I intended to address both coordinators in one post and then to list out potential replacements because I find the topic to be interesting. I see a lot of articles about prospective head coaches, but not prospective offensive and defensive coordinators and therefore I decided to create one; that’s basically the origin story of how I became a writer to begin with, which is that when I didn’t find the article that I wanted to read I decided to write it myself.

Unfortunately in Monday’s case, I proved another writer’s mistake that I make too often, which is that brevity is not the soul of wit in my case. I couldn’t fit both coordinators in one post AND I couldn’t even get Shane’s post to fit into the same article as 12 potential replacements.

If you want to read the list of 12 prospective offensive coordinator hires, you can do that here.

My mistake in Waldron’s initial article though is that it sounds like I’m blaming the entire season on him when in reality…I don’t even want him gone!

I think his role should be evaluated and I could see the potential benefits that would come with a new offensive coordinator, therefore I am not going to pound the table for him to stay when he’s had three seasons to prove himself and while the results aren’t bad, it’s not enough for me to say that I can’t explore the market.

But when I ended up chopping down the article into several articles, it came out as if I absolutely hate Shane Waldron and think he’s some sort of Jeremy Bates (Pete’s first hire at coordinator, the one that was so short it was like your “first girlfriend” even though you dated for a week and never saw each other outside of school) when in reality he’s hardly the biggest of my concerns.

My intention was to write a case for a new offensive coordinator if a change was to happen, not to make a case against Waldron.

What I would make a case against with more passion and intention is “running it back” on offense with the same coaches, same quarterback, same personnel, same plan. The Seahawks have been successively worse on the ground in each of Waldron’s three seasons and the last thing I want to hear as a counterpoint is something about offensive line injuries…

If you don’t expect Seattle’s offensive line to suffer injuries next season, then you should expect to be disappointed.

Now that I hopefully cleared that up—any miscommunication on my Monday post is my fault, nobody else’s—it’s time for another Seahawks fan survey.

This is a 12-question survey about the 2023 Seattle Seahawks season and how you, the fans, would want to proceed. Then we can measure what you would do against what the Seahawks end up doing and find out what the community is expecting, hoping for, and fearing in the months and year ahead. This survey is on Google and should not take more than a minute or two to complete.

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