RolandDeschain":zmrh00uv said:
I'm not defending Cable at all, but Bevell is the larger problem. He can call plays that try to compensate for our crappy O-line and almost never does. We've got the most mobile QB in the league, but if someone actually tracked the stats on designed bootlegs, we'd probably be in the bottom quarter of the league in terms of percentage.
It's absurd...and so frustrating to watch year, after year, after year, after year.
This is exactly how I felt the last few years, but what we saw yesterday was diffferent. It was an absolute abomination of 5 guys pretending to be an offensive line. I don't think it's possible to scheme around that, especially with Carroll's protect the ball philosophy resulting in Wilson's unwillingness to throw a receiver open.
When the reins come off, and Wilson is allowed to run a higher risk offense, he looks like an entirely different QB on an entirely different offense. Bevel has to be given some of the credit for how good this offense looks in those situations (when Cable's influence on the game plan is taken off the table).
Maybe this argues against my point that you can't scheme around this bad of an offensive line, but I would argue that you can't maintain that pace for an entire game, and part of the efffectiveness is catching the defense a bit off guard. If you ran the entire game like that, they would adjust.
As the years go by, I'm more and more convinced that the problem lies squarely on the shoulders of Cable, and, by extension, Carrol who's philosophy, and unwillingness to move on from Cable, is costing this team.
Just like our offensive line, Bevel and the offense only need to be average to allow our historic defense to dominate the league. I think Bevel is average to below average, but that's not enough when the line is such a travesty.