Mike Sando

So what I've seen is more and more ways to get better or worse.

And so the skilled GM is super valuable now.

It doesn't mean there's only one way to do it.

I mean, Howie Roseman leverages a lot more financially with an owner willing to spend at high risk.

I mean, they could easily—there's a lot of people predicting their doom and gloom if they get an injury here or there.

And John Schneider, I think, has been—

He's really good at finding or working well with his coach as a partner.

And I think early on with Pete Carroll, we saw that Pete was kind of in charge and John was able to kind of work with him.

They got a bunch of good players, lost their way a little bit.

I think once you get good, it's tempting to fill in for need.

And I think they did that for a while and it cost them.

But then he resets, hires a perfect coach for him.

Yeah.

somebody who can really hold people accountable, much like the coach in Ben Johnson does, and knows exactly what he's doing on his side of the ball, much like Ben Johnson does.

So if you have that right coach who can develop and develop players and has a vision for them, you're going to have way fewer misses and way more hits and you're going to develop guys.

So when I look at Seattle, they had a number of guys on their team contributing at the end who looked like they were liabilities early in the year.

There was a guy by the name of Tai Okada,

I think he played at Montana as a safety.

He looked terrible when he first got out there.

By the end, he was a good player.