Just wait. Another few losses, another season or two without a championship, and the critics will get louder. [Pete] Carroll was overrated, they’ll say. He got lucky, they’ll say. He came along at the same moment as a rare cluster of once-in-a-lifetime players, they’ll say. He’s lost his … mojo.
Carroll knows what they’ll say, and when he hears it, when he feels that he’s losing the players, losing the fans, losing momentum, or just losing, he might leave. Regardless of the contract extension he signed … he’s not likely to stay where he’s not wanted, or where his message is no longer working.