Amid Seattle’s ditching of Percy Harvin after an apparent failed attempt to work with and calm down the erratic wide receiver, The Seattle Times’ Jerry Brewer recalls a year-old conversation with the Seahawks coach regarding Carroll’s beliefs on bringing out the best in people.
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Carroll used his opinion on the country’s involvement in the Middle East as his example. Via The Seattle Times:
So there you have it. Pete Carroll: Seahawks coach and peaceful foreign policy advocate.
“Not tell them what to do. Not change them. Just help them go where they wanted to go. What if we had done that? How much money would that have cost us? Give me a thousand peace workers that would go over and do that. Just listen and talk. Think of what we could’ve done, as opposed to killing hundreds of thousands of people or whatever we did. And leave the wrath of what we did.”
Carroll failed to adequately alleviate or even manage Harvin’s reported anger issues. But based on his philosophy, don’t expect the 63-year-old coach to stop his acceptance of wayward players after just one failure.
Harvin was traded to the Jets last week for a conditional draft pick.
