I bought in

I bought in to the changes in practice, the concept of player and coaching management, the profession of "lessons learned" . . . I think a lot of players and the coaches bought in as well.

O spoke of the things he learned and implemented from coaching under Pete Carrol. That's great. I can do that too, but it doesn't make me Pete Carroll. There's a fine line between shorter practices and more film study and playing soft and losing the instinctive play from repetition as well as the stamina.

The old boxing axiom that "every fighter has a plan until he's hit" holds true. The same thing I used to see with Miles, I see X10 with O. The deer in the headlight look and inability to process what to do when your team is in trouble.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but his reaction/response post crisis tells me all I need to know. He's tweaked a few things, but he's still the same coach.