Lessons for the Democrats from the Seahawks

[jmowreader]

1. Get a charismatic, skilled leader.

2. It's not about one guy. Ask someone who likes football to name a Broncos player and he'll say Peyton Manning. Naming a Patriots player will get you Tom Brady. Abd so on...unfortunately fo Colin Kaepernick, a lot of people asked to name a 49ers player will say Joe Montana. The same question about a Seahawks player will get you a lot of different answers.

3. Never stop getting better. Pete Carroll called a team meeting for the morning after the Super Bowl. Because that's what he does, and because you don't win back-to-back Super Bowls by sitting on your laurels.

4. Hit hard and don't give them the chance to recover. That game was over the second Kam Chancellor knocked Demaryus Thomas seven yards downfield. From that point on, the question wasn't "who will win" but "how bad will the flogging be." As it turned out, it was one of the greatest ass whoopings in sports.

5. Talk trash and back it up. A few weeks ago, Richard Sherman accused Peyton Manning of throwing ducks. Two of them wound up in Seahawks' hands and one of those ducks wound up on the scoreboard.

6. There are no unimportant battles. They prepare as hard for a shitty team as they do for a fine one. The silver football in CenturyLink Field's trophy case is proof.

7. Talent beats money if talent wants to. Russell Wilson makes $700,000 per year. There are quarterbacks who make several times that. Russell Wilson wins games two ways: he does good things, and he doesn't negate them with stupid shit. The Broncos scored no sacks and no picks Sunday.

[Berlum]

1. Practice meditation & other effective techniques derided as "woo"

Because they work magnificently, and poo* alone is barren, incomplete and fatally FAIL prone.



* scientific materialism

[longship]

4. Nice post hoc generalization.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

[Berlum]

7. The OP is a list of lessons to be learned from the Seahawks

I added meditation (aka 'woo') to the list to repeat accurately what the Seahawk star players themselves said about what helped them to succeed so brilliantly, despite the fact that there are people who have trouble with 1/2 of reality. So it goes. The Dems could - in fact -- gain tremendously from practicing meditation, and accepting all of reality, distinguishing themselves from the War-on-Yin Scientific Materialist RepubliWankers, Inc. (R).

[Vashta Nerada]

2. Yeah, I'd rather not get my tips from NFL teams/players who make, at minimum, $460,000/year.

[liberal N proud]

3. "It's not about one guy"

That is what I love about it when teams like Seattle win, they are a team, not the Quarterback, and not the Receiver, but the TEAM.

The 2013 Division II National Champions, Northwest Missouri State applied that same principle, there was no one member that shined more than the others. They played hard and fast. To hard and too fast for the opponent to keep up for 4 quarters. These teams play for each other and not just for themselves.

These teams don't get the respect they deserve, the media doesn't shine a spot light on them because they don't have one star for them to focus on. Play as a team, and you can win resoundingly.

You are correct, these lessons can be applied to politics.

[uponit7771]

5. +1...."4. Hit hard and don't give them the chance to recover."

[jmowreader]

6. People talk about tacklers "flattening" you

Chancellor doesn't flatten anyone. He throws 250-pound men in 50-pound uniforms like rag dolls.

[Berlum]

8. Woo woo woo woo - the Call of the Seahawk (D)