hawk45
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MontanaHawk05":5n8jfe8d said:Once you really step back from the one play and examine everything else that's gone on, you still have a team that's reached the Super Bowl twice, one once, and never missed the playoffs until this year. Was more of that on Russell Wilson and the defense than Darell Bevell? You could argue that. But it still seems ridiculous to argue that kind of success.
I was always more willing to argue that Cable should go, but there were too many other existing factors (drafting poorly on the OL after 2015) to point it out to them.
Personally, I find Pete's timing in getting rid of people to be pretty good. It took him only one miss of the postseason to do it; he waited until it was obvious that player acquisition wasn't up to snuff and that coaching might be an issue; and it didn't look knee-jerk.
Yeah, as a fan I've wanted Cable gone for years, but even so the back-to-back offseasons losing 2 OL starters forcing the re-shuffle on 3-or-more OL spots was something I couldn't discount. If Cable had a fault it was not being realistic about what he could accomplish under those circumstances.
But from Pete's standpoint, when Lynch left was eliminating the HOF RB variable, which allowed him to evaluate Cable a little better. Then, this year, actually spending money at 2 anchor spots eliminated (or at least mitigated) the poor-resources variable, further allowing him to evaluate Cable. I think Pete took a cautious approach evaluating Cable, but it's defensible as much as I hated waiting for it.
Ditto on Bevell in terms of being okay with the timing. Actually, I'd have been fine with keeping Bevell since we know Pete is just going to get another Bevell. But this was an okay time to pull the trigger on that move if he had to. Bevell's big crime to you and I was always pretending he had better protection than he did and failing to make adjustments.