Great day for Bevell.....

[CANHawk]

I thought Bevel done good today. He stayed true to what makes us who we are and it worked perfectly. He gets a well earned pat on the head today.

 

[Johnny]

I thought Bevel done good today. He stayed true to what makes us who we are and it worked perfectly. He gets a well earned pat on the head today.

Agreed.

As a Bevell hater, I have to say he finally fed the Beast and stayed true to what our offense is 'run first'...

 

[Hawks46]

I think Bevell called the game the way he usually does. Though I did love the return of the trick play, I was wondering where those had disappeared to this season.

Really, with our offense, and most offenses, it's 5% playcalling a 95% execution. Today, our guys executed, and our offense kicked ass.

I second this post. Atlanta didn't have the edge rushers to bother our OL. They blitzed more than they did last year and we made them pay for it.

Can't blame them though...they knew they had to do something and tried blitzing.

 

[TDOTSEAHAWK]

His play calling was pretty usual.

Our offensive line play was unusual.

See what happens when our offensive line keeps our QB standing for more than 1.2 seconds?

The playbook develops as it was written. Those simple route progressions look quite adequate.

The whole play-calling debate is one fraught with holes and is really a scapegoat for lack of talent and poor execution. It also assumes that a perfect play call can overcome those two things - which it can't.

It is also completely biased based on results as we can never go back and test multiple play calls in identical situations.

We still have a lack of talent on the offensive line - the Falcons simply were not able to take advantage.

 

[Uncle Si]

I think Bevell called the game the way he usually does. Though I did love the return of the trick play, I was wondering where those had disappeared to this season.

Really, with our offense, and most offenses, it's 5% playcalling a 95% execution. Today, our guys executed, and our offense kicked ass.

Late on he went with 4 (maybe 5) consecutive red zone run plays with Marshawn finishing with a TD.... that was a little different, and I thought capped the day well.

No gimmicks, no empty backfields. Maybe it came with more confidence in the run game and 0-line, but still he gets credit for just letting it happen.

 

[eastcoast12]

From Field Gulls:

Darrell Bevell has been consigned as Seattle's Mr. Holland and this morning he delivered his opus, scripting a gameplan that yielded 490 yards on 69 (giggidy) plays in 35+ minutes. That's a 7.1 clip and it never gave the Falcons a chance. He even threw in a trick play, having Lynch throw it back to Wilson on sweep, who then delivered a 43-yard TD pass to Jermaine Kearse. There are still going to be a lot of people calling for Bevell's head, but while I'm not his staunchest defender, I think this game shows reason to stay the course*.

*Which, honestly, I can't believe I have to say about the OC of a 9-1 team averaging 27 points per game.

http://www.fieldgulls.com/2013/11/1...arshawn-lynch-russell-wilson-goldent-tate-9-1

 

[RolandDeschain]

The whole play-calling debate is one fraught with holes and is really a scapegoat for lack of talent and poor execution.

That's WHY a fair amount of the blame is Bevell's. He never adjusted to our depleted O-line. You can't sit and do the same stuff when you're missing 2-3 offensive linemen. It's hard enough to match up against a starting defense with 5 starting-caliber O-linemen, trying to do the same thing with both tackles and a center out in 4-5 games and both tackles out in most of the rest is ridiculous.

Your argument is fraught with holes.

 

[aawolf]

I liked that he finally fed the Beast inside the 10 yard-line. As play calling goes, that's the one difference that could have made a difference in other games.

 

[hawk45]

There are 2 different narratives obviously.

1) Bevell has been fine the whole time it's all the line
2) Bevell hasn't been very good but has improved, and playing a weaker pass rush this week helped that along also

The offense didn't look fantastic last week, neither did the OL, but Bevell still called a better game than he had been. We saw slants, shorter routes, heavy doses of running, and fewer empty backfields. The Bucs D played better than the Atlanta D, so the outcome wasn't quite the same, but I thought the gameplan was better. Russell was still getting killed, but you could at least see an attempt to slow the pass rush down via the play calling.

But prior to the Bucs game, it took him all season long adjust to the bad protection, at least in my eyes. I know for sure he was using empty backfield more early on, and there were more 7 step drops, and it was nuts.

I definitely think the line is 80% of things, and as they get healthier Bevell will be fine. I just wish he would have been quicker with the adjustments he finally made vs Tampa and continued vs Atlanta. Against Atlanta he probed a bit, making sure Russ was safe, and then let it fly later on when it was clear he was in no danger. I think that's a great approach.

 

[tom sawyer]

Well I guess he gets to keep his job, for now, but we won't be talking raise until after a SB victory though.

 

[Lords of Scythia]

Talk about an outcome-dependent group!
If his stuff works, he's a genius. If it doesn't, he's a clueless bum.
We *finally* played a team that doesn't have a dominating defensive front 7.
Yes, our O-Line guys played better; mostly, I was glad to see Alvin Bailey getting reps all over the line. It's been hard watching the McQuistan turnstile at Left Tackle.

When the O-Line isn't sucking big time, Bevell is a much better play caller.

This is something I figured out watching Dennis Erickson on the sideline.