nwHawk":3i4ztwpo said:
Doug Baldwin mentioned several times that Bevell was good about calling games that helped to cover up "their" mistakes. How much of that was at the point guard position? Was Bevell's last year an attempt to illustrate certain shortcomings? Player acquisition and player limitations...? (And Cable).
Here's my issue: if Bevell was such a terrible offensive coordinator, how did Wilson have such an illustrious beginning to his career (101.8 passer rating over his first four years)?
Let's hypothetically accept that Bevell was "terrible" (just for the sake of argument). What would Wilson's numbers have looked like with a brilliant offensive mind? With Bevell, Wilson had the second-best passer rating from 2012-2015 (second to only Rodgers), and he lead the league in Y/A during that span. He was efficient and explosive. We were also DVOA offensive darlings.
People want to simultaneously believe that:
1) Wilson had a HOF-caliber beginning to his career + was one of the most effective/efficient QBs during that span, and,
2) he was greatly held back and hindered by Bevell
Come on. It's absolutely preposterous to believe that both of those things simultaneously occurred. Bevell was fine, and the stats bear that out.