Descriptive Essay Example Of A Good Coach: Pete Carroll

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The Seattle Seahawks have a one of a kind coach named Pete Carroll. The Seahawks head coach likes to have fun during practice and in meetings and even has a mini basketball hoop in the practice facility that they can use in practice and sometimes he will stop meetings to have a shooting contest on it. He also sometimes likes to play blaring music to let the players have fun. Even though he encourages the players to be themselves in practice or in games he does not like when they start yelling or cursing.
I have seen bad records by the Seahawks, but this is the worst of all. In 1992 the Seahawks had their worst season ever only beating two teams during the season. They went two and fourteen during this terrible season the teams they beat were

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