The square peg / round hole thing has been disproven.
Pete was blamed for neutering a passing game the entire time wilson was here. Wilson leaves, and his typical 1/3rd field utilization, bomb or die, 3 and out fest followed him to Denver.
Meanwhile, in Seattle, the passing game and QB, were the only facets of the team that looked legit with the exception of KWs brief run of productivity his rookie year.
Pete was blamed for being the orchestratir of the run run pass punt offense. After Russ left, we literally became the pass run pass offense.
I dont see how any of that can be reasonably debated, particularly seeing as how Russ was gifted an offensive mastermind in Peyton... and we know what Peyton thought of Russ's ability as a QB...
Like i said, Dude was good at playing his own game. And he did that spectacularly. But as was reported extensivle last year, Russ was barely even capable of speaking out Peytons' plays in the huddle, let alone actually running them after the snap, or audibling before it.
Pete had his foibles. Pete was conservative at times. He forced players out of position at times to suit his style of DEFENSE. But to say he handcuffed the offense and Russ at this point is ludicrous when the growing concensus across the league is now that Russ was a beneficiary of Carroll's scheming around his deficiencies and allowing him to play Russ ball, something obviously no other coach since has been willing to let him do (because it no longer works and hasnt for almost 4 years now).
The dude can get outplayed by Fields this year and never find success under anothet NFL HC and some will STILL say Pete held him back.
If he does, it will be 3 HCs that found him inadequate. Yet somehow the one that brought him success somehow hamdcuffed him??
And post 2015, the Hawks had top 10 rushing attacks and a miffle of the pack D tbrough 2019. Hr carried the team the year we had literally no warm bodies to run the ball. It wasnt because he trascended the game or that the team was hapless without him. You paint it as if he saved Pete and the organization from themselves, wgrn in reality, had he ever been forced to do duting that period what Peyton and Hackett made him do, we would have looked much the dame as they did.
But lets not argue. Just see what homey does in Pittsburgh. This will all be settled in good time.
Russ's is writing his true legacy at this point, pen in hand. And the last three years have been chicken scratch. The longer he plays, the lower the percentage of stellar career years he has and the further in the rear view theyll be.
