Your just talking from opinion. Alexander was a monster. He and Lynch were apples and oranges. Completely different running backs. Saying Lynch would have the same success or better? How do you know that? Alexander was quicker and more elusive than Lynch where Lynch was a power back. I love Warner too, but come on. In your eyes, I guess Emmitt Smith was just a scrub too because he ran behind an elite Oline for years right? Take a step back and listen to yourself man.
The consensus will all be on the same page when Carroll retires or is forced out without ever achieving the same kind of success that he did with a Russell Wilson in his prime. Thats going to take a few more years though. Give it time.
Baldwin never said the play call was good. He said through analytics he can kind of understand the decision (although it was a bad one). The whole world knows it was a dumb play. Stop trying to be Petes knight in shining armor. Belichick was just being a stand up guy. I guarantee he wouldnt have run that play in that situation.
Again, even if the worst receiver on the team catches the pass, he doesnt score. That play call cost Seattle their second Lombardi.
I'm completely comfortable with my ability to look past stats and say unequivocally that Emitt Smith is not the best running back in the history of the league just because he has the most yards. You go ahead and try to make that argument if you want. And as far as pure skilled runners, Alexander isnt the best RB we've had.
Its as simple as this. If you were to assess a players ability in the various skills needed to succeed at their position and disregard statistics, youd be able to see more clearly who they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are. You are so hung up on Russ's nutts because of his numbers. yet you still conveniently ignore my ask that you explain how it is he can be so bad at basic requirements of the position in year 11. And you somehow dismiss his teammates unanimous view of him as not being up to par on his game even back then.
Connect the dots bro. His teammates disliked the fact that he wasnt good at aspects of his job pre 2015 and was allowed to get away with it. His best wr was frustrated at the double standard and putting in the work for nothing. His defense was frustrated for having to maintain a standard a play that got us wins, while he was allowed to put them in 3 and out bail out mode constsntly. AND THOSE THINGS HE SHOWED HE COULDNT DO THEN, HE STILL DOESNT DO NOW.
So before you rag on my response, just square up for me how it is his teammates were pissed then at the holes in his game that were allowed to persist. AND that there are STILL holes in his game that Kurt Warner i think called basic 'high school' qb'ing just last year? Explain how it is that you dont see a connection between what he couldnt do then and got away with, how he never did it while he was in Seattle, and how he still cant do it now in Denver, DESPITE BEING GIFTED THE BEST QB COACH IN THE LEAGUE - according to some. Thise are facts, stats be damned. Explain it.
Because when your offense is run by a guy who doesnt allow it to do basic, fundamental things, it will be handicapped. The fact that that guy could just make sh!+ go anyway doesnt change that. It wasnt sustainable.
But you know what? IGNORE the fact that as far back as 2018, John Schneider was looking to move on from Russ. Explain why if he was so phenomenal, would John be trying to trade the dude and NOT pay him top dollar? Heres a hint. Because he knew that Russ's game had already hit its ceiling.
At every turn, you are confronted with facts, not opinions, from Seahawks players, Analysts, The team's coach, the GM, that all point to the FACT that Russ was deficient and that the fact that he was never made to improve, fractured the team. FACT... that John Schneider wanted to move the dude 5 years ago. FACT that the things that led to his teammates being resentful towards him and his GM wanting to let him go are blatantly obvious now in his play in Denver.
Love certainly is blind.
And Pete's knight in shining armor or whatever you said? No. I've said it already. Its Pete's fault this all happened in the first place. he should have kept the team together and if Russ couldnt execute the position properly, he should have gotten together with John and figured out a trade partner or made some other move a lonngggg time ago. I said even in this thread that Pete built the team, and then was responsible for it falling apart.
So focus on the facts for once, that dont include your worship of stats.