Bevell is not your problem, the offensive line play is. Bevell has been perfectly fine up until now, why does he suddenly suck?
Both are the problem. Our offense has had this issue on offense for about five years now. It starts with Cable trying to be as radical as possible making lines out of nobodies. When they don't pan out a couple years later, he scratches them and starts with new couple of dudes. It worked early on because we had Lynch. But now, with a rotating backfield littered with injuries, it exposes his technique. Our line gets younger and younger. This year, no long stretch of decency (besides the three win streak), like the second half of last season. This year, we have a player who never played football in college, just basketball. Other players players before, huge position changes (defensive players trained to be offensive ones for example).
If you watch each game, you'll be able to call each play yourself half the time because you know what Bevell's going to do. And he doesn't seem to know when to quit running the ball or make passes more than a few yards past the line of scrimmage. And he constantly runs half-baked mini trick plays, expecting the line to hold out for it. Except for that Green Bay game, the team always picks it up the very last second when they need a last scoring drive or two. He speeds it up leaving everyone here saying wtf thanks for doing this now Bevell. And keep not using Graham. Yeah, we need blocking, but we also need our expensive top TE to get targeted more on his routes. That endzone incompletion was bad on Graham's part, but he should of been hit for the touchdown earlier when Luke caught that ball. Graham was open and the crowd actually booed. Guess that was more on Russell Wilson though.
A lot of people also think they try to limelight Wilson as much as possible.
Part of the problem is that all the money's been put on defense or our core offensive players. That's also why they're sticking with the rookie running backs, only holding waiver players shortly until they get back, getting Rawls ready for the future. I think the NFL just needs to spike up the cap again because the QB price is just ridiculous and it keeps getting higher every season with teams competing to see who can pay the biggest contract. Now Stafford's next.
It's only head scratching because it didn't work and hindsight is 20/20. you may forget that, as good as lynch was, he had struggled in goal line situations that whole year. additionally, knowing your opponent is expecting run and trying to catch them off guard is not a bad tactic. the play call wasn't the problem, Butler just executed better than the seahawks receiver did. if it had worked bevell would have been lauded for the call. such is risk/reward
I can promise he wouldn't be lauded here. It wouldn't have looked as a bad play, sure, but we'd simply be celebrating the touchdown. Then, be disappointed at Marshawn Lynch AKA Beast Mode not getting the ball. Personally, I wouldn't give a thought to what they'd expect, you think Lynch would let them stop him at that crucial play? I know for a fact they wanted Wilson to get MVP. Lynch had 100+ yards, another 20-30 on a big pass, and one touchdown already. Add a game finisher? MVP for sure. Just lettin you know how much Seattle up here loves Lynch. A decent amount of people would have had him getting the last punch (as it really should have, him being the heart of the offense).
The next game will be our last chance to exhibit a properly operating offense throughout the whole game against a tough opponent, so I hope we make the best out of it. A win should clinch 2nd seed for sure. Like I said, I have no confidence we can run a 3-4 win streak after week 17 right now, sucks to say.
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