Navigating the Shift: Mike Macdonald's Camp vs Pete Carroll's

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00:00What, um, what is it like to go to a camp without Pete Carroll there?

00:12It is different, Scott, for sure.

00:15Mike McDonald is almost the opposite personality wise of Pete Carroll.

00:18Carroll was really loose and free and everyone knows his persona and not to

00:22mention he was the oldest coach in the league at age 72, Mike McDonald's

00:24the youngest, just turned 37.

00:26McDonald is very direct.

00:28I saw a scene of players after a practice, 10 young players go straight

00:33into the locker room after they adjourned practice while the rest of

00:36the veterans would go signing autographs for fans at training camp.

00:39And McDonald angrily told one of his assistants to fish those 10

00:42guys right back out of the building.

00:44They did.

00:45They ran out to McDonald and McDonald roughly said, go get on the wall to

00:49the fence where the fans were getting autographs from players, that was the

00:54standard, he said, as everyone does it and nobody gets out, he wants to be

00:57very consistent and disciplined on those types of messages, even down to that level.

01:01Pete Carroll would have put his arm around those guys later inside away

01:04from everybody and said, hey, come on guys, you need to be out there for that.

01:07You know how it goes.

01:09This whole fight thing you may have seen yesterday, GK Metcalf flinging a

01:13helmet at a teammate and Jake Bobo getting an uppercut from a teammate.

01:17Well, it was Mike McDonald who set this tone from the first day the pads went on.

01:21He wants them to be tougher and physical and this camp has been both.

01:26And then it culminated in yesterday's practice.

01:27Scott, yesterday was the first time I've seen a practice at the Seahawks look

01:31like the Legion of Boom days in 10 years.

01:34I thought Richard Sherman was out there beating up an undrafted

01:36rookie wide receiver again, like it was 2013 when the Seahawks were

01:40the number one defense in the league.

01:42I'm not saying they have the talent for that, but McDonald's trying to get

01:45them to get back to that mentality, tougher, if it causes fights, so be it.

01:50They finally drew the line yesterday with throwing a helmet or swinging a

01:53helmet, GK Metcalf had a teammate, McDonald brought them all together in

01:57the middle of the field and said, no more of that, and there was a fight

01:59between two linemen in the pass rush drill and he kicked them out of there

02:02off the practice field and put them in the, in the locker room for the first

02:05time all camp, but make a mistake.

02:07Mike McDonald wants it this way and he wants them to push the envelope, but

02:11if it causes some fights, so be it.

02:13Starting Saturday, they can go do that against another team for a change.

02:17Respectfully.

02:17I have a minute.

02:18They obviously I think made the right choice.

02:22I think that guy can flat out coach and his defense was sickening.

02:28And I'm a Steeler fan.

02:29I hate the Ravens and I know how good they are.

02:31Uh, there are arch rival and that guy was a pain in my ass.

02:35The other thing I'm worried about though, is frankly, to have Metcalf, to have

02:40Lockett, to have Njigga, to have that much talent at receiver, even tight end.

02:47And then I just don't buy that.

02:50Frankly, a good enough quarterback to light up that kind of talent.

02:54I, they have all the talent in the world catching.

02:57Uh, and, and I don't believe they have it throwing eventually here.

03:01I'm going to run out of time.

03:02Uh, Greg.

03:03So I just want to say, I'm excited that they got McDonald.

03:06It's going to be interesting to see if they win with him here in this first

03:11season and if Gino can get going again, they got a lot happening out in Seattle.

03:16Nobody thinks they're going to do anything.

03:18So I think it's going to be fun to follow them.

03:20We'll catch up again, get you back on the show as the season starts and progresses.

03:24Always good to see you, Greg Bell.

03:25Thank you, my man.

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