I just realized how bad it is when you're not in charge and you're a head coach.

My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.

I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.