Archive for May, 2010

Carroll Shows No Love for USC (part 2)

Last time, I chronicled my initial thoughts on Pete Carroll and his pre-draft strategy.  I posed some possible reasons why he might have opted to build his team around former players, and gave examples in the modern NFL.  Today, I will answer the question I left you with: Why did Pete Carroll overlook his USC [...]

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Carroll Shows No Love for USC Players

A major storyline during this 2010 NFL Draft, for me, was seeing how Pete Carroll would value his former USC players. Would he build his Pete Carroll (NFL.com) Seahawks with a foundation of USC products? Based on the near-daily reports regarding the Seahawks trade talks for former USC players during free agency (Reggie Bush, Matt [...]

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