Misguided Trojan

With the quarterback shuffling starting to settle I can't help but ponder the two-faced talk of former USC and current Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll. At one time he was an assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings so I try to think of him fondly. His unforgivable time spent at USC started to tarnish those fond thoughts. Pretty much everything that he's said since leaving that shaky school has killed them. Shortly after the Seahawks signed former Minnesota quarterback Tarvaris Jackson last summer, Carroll criticized the Vikings for never giving his new player a chance. He said that Jackson was repeatedly pushed to the bench to make room for old farts like Brad Johnson, Gus Frerotte and Brett Favre. First of all it's not really Carroll's place to speak out about what took place in Minnesota. He wasn't there. He has no clue. So be it. What really struck me was that as Carroll was speaking his nonsense he was doing to Charlie Whitehurst the very same thing that he criticized the Vikings for doing to Jackson. Whitehurst was sitting at the top of the Seahawks' quarterback depth chart after trading for him to be the starter and after winning a couple of big late season games the season before. Without ever taking a practice snap Tarvaris Jackson was set to be the starter. Now, Whitehurst is back in San Diego. Discarded by the Seahawks. As soon as free agency started this offseason Seattle went looking for a quarterback. First they went after Peyton Manning. When that didn't come to be they went after Matt Flynn. Got him. Despite a promising 2011 season Tarvaris Jackson was pushed aside. Now, Carroll is doing to Jackson the very same thing that he did to Whitehurst. Oh, Pete Carroll says that there will be a quarterback competition. I just wouldn't trust anything that former Trojan says.