Longtime readers know that I've long hated Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, way back to when he was rationalizing how his team was really a co-champion. You remember his team? His dirty USC team? The one stripped of titles and slapped with sanctions two seconds after he fled to Seattle? Yeah, that team.
Pete's continued to vomit self-serving nonsense in the pros. He remains the only person in the world who argues that Golden Tate really caught that ball in front of the replacement refs last year.
This offseason, Pete's players have been slapped five times for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. It's an epidemic. And Pete is tackling it head-on and without equivocation. Compare his statement to that of his rival, 49er coach Jim Harbaugh.
"It has no place in an athlete's body. Play by the rules," Harbaugh told his players. "You always want to be above reproach, especially when you're good, because you don't want people to come back and say, 'They're winning because they're cheating.'"
Asked Tuesday about Harbaugh's mention of the Seahawks suspensions, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said: "We've kind of dealt with this to set into motion a really clear mindset to take care of business and treat this situation that is around the league very seriously. I don't know about commenting about anybody else's team, but as far as we're concerned we feel like we've addressed it directly."
Feel dazed yet filthy, don't you? Welcome to Pete Carroll.