Seattle hired John Schneider at the same time they hired Pete.
They worked hand-in-glove via Schneider's drafts to build some great teams. I wonder if Schneider drove Pete's firing, or will he be next? Never can tell with the Seahawks; their decline started about the time Paul Allen's death put upper management of the team in the hands of Allen's sister, a situation akin to Georgia assuming control of the Rams after Mr. Rosenbloom's death.
The rumors of a potential sale to Jeff Bezos over the past few years indicate the wobbly ownership in Seattle. It's a football franchise - not a dotcom company or an internet mass marketing retail corporation.
I don't really take too much umbrage with Pete's raising his leg on that fireplug on his way out. After all, he's just giving voice to the obvious. Paul Allen was a fan and engaged with the team. What he didn't know about football he made it his business to learn and he put good people in place o run the team - achieving a management style of engaged and active oversight while giving his upper management team autonomy hedged in by accountability. You could say he was a football person.
His sister, by contrast, causes us to wonder if she knows whether a football is pumped up or stuffed. Her house managers have no skin in the game and don't know much more about football than she does. That's the nexus of Seattle's decline. It'll be interesting to track their trajectory from here. There may be high points, as there were with Georgia-Shaw-Marmey Rams, but the overall trajectory was downward until the Kroenke-Demoff era.
