Pete Carroll tries to explain the unexplainable - looks stupid in the process

There’s a rather sure sign the NFL is getting its azz whipped by PDJT on the anthem issue.  When you’re losing an argument badly about something stupid that you said, like America sucks, what do you do? You claim that you never said America sucks, or that’s not what you meant, even though you said it.

That’s the new argument for the NFL kneelers and their BS supporters.  A protest that started to call attention to what a racist POS America is, is now not about America being a POS at all. What is about then?  Well…hmm…no one can quite put their finger on that.  If taking a knee during the anthem is not about the anthem or what a POS America is, then what exactly is the protest all about?

Pete Carroll explained it best when he couldn’t explain it at all:

“These are protests, they’re statements and expressions of freedom of speech that can be taken however you want to take it.”

Well that pretty much says it all doesn’t it.  These protests are about whatever you say they are about.  If they are about everything then they are about nothing. If they are about freedom of speech why does the NFL refuse so many their freedom of speech in other matters from the Dallas Cowboys putting a sticker on their helmet to support the Dallas police and honor 5 murdered police officers?  This is about the purest BS anyone can produce, Pete.  It’s right up there with Ivory Soap which we all know is 99 and 44/100^th percent pure.  Oh, and for the 10,0th time - NO ONE SAYS THE PLAYERS DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE AZZHOLES.

But Pete wasn’t done.  Trust me. I’m an expert on this issue.  One of the hardest things in life to do is to just stop talking when you’re trying to explain and justify something you clearly F-up.  Pete continued:    

“It’s hard for everybody to see everybody’s view, because we don’t have the skills that empathy calls for to understand somebody has something to say, and empathy would call on us to listen and to not pass judgement. Then whether or not you want to demonstrate compassion by working to try to help their situation, that’s what’s at stake right here.”

Huh?  WTF?  What does any of that mean? I suppose Pete wants everyone to empathize with everything anyone might say.  To sum it up, everyone needs to agree with everyone else, or as the late great Rodney King put it, “Can’t we all just get along?”

Still trying to explain the unexplainable Pete continued. Which is another golden rule.  If you cannot explain yourself in fewer words than it took to write War and Peace, you are probably in a pretty tight box.  So Pete had no recourse but just keep on tlking:    

“And (the focus) has been so directed at just the flag or just law enforcement or other thoughts, that’s not at all what the players are expressing.”

Okay, now you’re just being a dumbazz.  If it’s not about the flag, why kneel during the anthem?  Why not kneel during player introductions or the coin flip or the first TV timeout?  Besides, Pete, the imbecile who started this whole thing, Colin Kapernick, is on rcord when he said it was about America being a racist $h!thle in part because the cop are pigs and that he could not stand for the symbol of such a BS country. 

So, Pete, still in search of a sane thought, continued:    

“They’re expressing freedom of speech and expression, and they have a lot to say and they’re skilled at what they want to say and what they stand for.”

If they are so skilled at what they want to say, Pete, why have all gotten it so wrong?  We’re all the dumbazzes I supposes because we think when a player takes a knee during the Anthem he’s protesting the Anthem and the country.  In keeping with youre, can’t we all just get along philosophy, I see.  The players kneeling during the Anthem are not protesting the Anthem at all.  No.  They are protesting, umm, they are protesting, hmm, they are protesting…let me get back to you that, but they are definitely NOT protesting the Anthem, the flag or the country.  Got it?

The freedom speech part is just an entire fleet of tri-axel dump trucks loaded with Pete Carroll quality BS.

  

Sadly, unable to come with a good argument, Pete continued:  

“In that, I’d like to say too that our players are in a very fortunate situation. It has nothing to do with how much money they make. They’re in a position where they can speak out and they can, hopefully, create change and get their points of view out there that are designed to help people.”

Still no explanation of what the point actually is if it is not outright disrespect for the Anthem, flag and country.  At this point, were I doing the interview, I’d shouting at Pete, “What is the F-ing point then, Pete?  State it in one easily understood sentence.”  Pete, can’t explain it in a book so he continued:

  

“This isn’t about the kind of salaries they make; they’re very fortunate to be where they are and they know it, and they have the courage to speak out. That’s not being recognized as much as we would like. It’s more polarized in that.”

Ahh, not to be too critical, but courage is not the word I’d use for what these azzbags are doing. 

This is real courage.  Rethink that one, Pete.  It takes zero courage to take a knee and be a bore during the Anthem in America.  Right now it’s what the players and the entire Lefty Lib cohort expect.  But we’re supposed to look at them as courageous heroes for sitting on their azzes in a free country.  They are in fact the least courageous people in the country right now.

“We understand why people are upset about it, but it is not about denigration of the flag, the country or anything that stands for. It’s not about that at all. It’s about trying to get your feelings out and your ideas across. Protests, just by the nature of the word, not everybody is going to agree—that’s why it’s a protest.  ”

Another classic sign of not knowing what you’re talking about is returning to a tired Red Herring argument.  We all agree the players have the right to be as absolutely stupid and disrespectful as they want.  And no, I don’t think you do “understand why people are upset about it.” If you did, you’d apologize and say something along the lines of, the Anthem is NOT the time to protest anything.

And what do you mean not everybody is going to agree?  Aren’t we all supposed to agree with everything?

I gotta go. Pete rambled on in search of something meaningful to say but could only come up with platitudes:

“I think it’s extraordinary that this is happening and I think it’s a moment that we all can learn what we want to learn out of this, but I hope we learn about empathy, to listen, to come to an understanding of what someone else feels without passing judgement. It doesn’t mean you’re going to agree. That’s OK. That’s OK. Hopefully, like I said, the compassion part will come about in the proper manner, and there will be action taken and there will be movement made, and we’ll come to an understanding. It’s hard. It’s hard, but it’s good.” 

   

I’m not so sure you’ll think it’s “extraordinary” when the league is in ruins.  I’ve already come to an understanding.  I understand the league is full of anti-American azzbags that can go to hell.

I congratulate Coach Carroll.  You had nothing to say but took 10,000 words to say it. Professor Irwin Corey could not have said it better.