TwistedHusky
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W/L is not only a component of the offense.
In fact, for the most part, the greatest contributor to our W/L record is the success of the defense.
Our offense has been, for the most part, mediocre under Bevell. Check the #s for yourself. All offensive effectiveness numbers are in the bottom half of the league.
There was a small period that our offense peeked above the bottom half, but that was more because our RB, Marshawn Lynch, was producing HOF quality work in terms of yards after contact, broken tackles and missed tackles.
In fact, the loss of Lynch turned us from a SB contender to a team that barely made a wildcard.
It was the need to stop Lynch and commit their defense to doing so, that opened things up for the rest of our offense and made it look so effective. But without Lynch, that was over.
It was never Bevell, it was the defenses that had no choice but to pour their resources into stopping him that made our offense look capable.
However, as far as production against top defenses or even top half defenses? Bevell has very pedestrian numbers. Production in KPIs for offense? Again, Bevell is pretty average to below average.
His offenses depend on top 5 defenses for those wins. Normalize the production against a standard defense and you will see he is NOWHERE NEAR the best OC the Seahawks ever had. Not even close.
Those wins were delivered, for the most part, by defenses that kept us in games. In the SB win year, those defenses resulted in a turnover every 4 opposing drives. Numbers like that make the other guys on the team look better than they were/are.
In fact, for the most part, the greatest contributor to our W/L record is the success of the defense.
Our offense has been, for the most part, mediocre under Bevell. Check the #s for yourself. All offensive effectiveness numbers are in the bottom half of the league.
There was a small period that our offense peeked above the bottom half, but that was more because our RB, Marshawn Lynch, was producing HOF quality work in terms of yards after contact, broken tackles and missed tackles.
In fact, the loss of Lynch turned us from a SB contender to a team that barely made a wildcard.
It was the need to stop Lynch and commit their defense to doing so, that opened things up for the rest of our offense and made it look so effective. But without Lynch, that was over.
It was never Bevell, it was the defenses that had no choice but to pour their resources into stopping him that made our offense look capable.
However, as far as production against top defenses or even top half defenses? Bevell has very pedestrian numbers. Production in KPIs for offense? Again, Bevell is pretty average to below average.
His offenses depend on top 5 defenses for those wins. Normalize the production against a standard defense and you will see he is NOWHERE NEAR the best OC the Seahawks ever had. Not even close.
Those wins were delivered, for the most part, by defenses that kept us in games. In the SB win year, those defenses resulted in a turnover every 4 opposing drives. Numbers like that make the other guys on the team look better than they were/are.