Why do you think Bevell put the training wheels back on RW?

[Axx]

It seemed like no matter what in the first half on 3rd and 4th down situations he wanted to hand the ball off. He was treating Wilson like a Mark Sanchez game manager player.

 

[QuahHawk]

When will they just let RW call his own plays liek Manning or Brady? He has shown he knows what ot do and can protect the ball let him loose

 

[Blazenhawks]

We need a new OC I just don't think we can win with Bevell as the OC

 

[kearly]

Huh? Wilson had 36 pass attempts. Lynch had 16 carries. Wilson had 455 total yards of offense. This was pretty much the polar opposite of a Mark Sanchez approach.

 

[Crizilla]

I'd rather take a shot with a different HC than a new OC. Pete didn't call yesterday's game very well. You just don't go for it on 4th and 1 during a road playoff game when your team is dying for momentum. Take the 3 points. They are so precious.

Bevell did a great job. He was doing what we did all year long. Seahawks ran the ball the most out of every team during the season. Why do anything different going into this game? Gives props to Atlanta for recognizing it and making the plays to stop the Beast.

 

[hawker84]

Huh? Wilson had 36 pass attempts. Lynch had 16 carries. Wilson had 455 total yards of offense. This was pretty much the polar opposite of a Mark Sanchez approach.

i agree with the OP, in regards to the 1st half... it wasn't until we were down 20 pts did bevell start passing the ball more, hence the 36 attempts.. the 1st half offense was way too conservative, 1st run, 2nd long run, 3rd and long pass.... just like the first half of the year... it's very clear to me bevell wanted to pound the ball in the first half and even after it was obvious it wasn't working , he still went with it...

 

[Crizilla]

I'd rather take a shot with a different HC than a new OC. Pete didn't call yesterday's game very well. You just don't go for it on 4th and 1 during a road playoff game when your team is dying for momentum. Take the 3 points. They are so precious.

Seriously man, cut it out. You're embarrassing yourself.

So... you think Bevell is to blame for the loss, then, right? Please explain.

 

[jkitsune]

I'd rather take a shot with a different HC than a new OC. Pete didn't call yesterday's game very well. You just don't go for it on 4th and 1 during a road playoff game when your team is dying for momentum. Take the 3 points. They are so precious.

Bevell did a great job. He was doing what we did all year long. Seahawks ran the ball the most out of every team during the season. Why do anything different going into this game? Gives props to Atlanta for recognizing it and making the plays to stop the Beast.

Wow. Simply stunning.

 

[Crizilla]

If the question is who would you rather replace? Yes I take PC. Someone more calm, cool, and collected that doesn't let his emotions muddle up smart decision making. The Russell Wilson of coaching. Bottom line is not one person was the sole reason why the Seahawks lost. But Pete played with fire in this game too much. In the NFL, you cannot get away with that as much as you can in the College game. That's just a proven fact.

 

[Crizilla]

No. Notice I didn't quote the part about Bevell, which I agree with, and you'd have known that if you'd read my earlier post in the thread.

You're embarrassing yourself by saying you'd rather have a different head coach. Pete called a decent game yesterday. Were mistakes made? Absolutely yes, but there was also bad execution by the players. Pete didn't get Wilson sacked on 3rd down to end the half. It's easy for us to sit here and say what he should have done on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1, but if the players had executed, we wouldn't even be talking about it. Seriously, just stop.

Oh ok. You thought Bevell did a good job then. Cool. You still can't see the mistakes Pete made as an NFL coach. But that's ok.

And saying "LOL IF THEY WOULD HAVE CONVERTED NOBODY WUD BE SAYIN ANYTHING" is so irrelevant it makes me chuckle. Really, it does. Driving your car with one eye shut is possible but not a good idea and/or strategy for getting to your destination.

 

[White Devil]

I'd rather take a shot with a different HC than a new OC. Pete didn't call yesterday's game very well..

 

[BWRyan]

All week we were told we could run on Atlanta's defense. I think we needed to at least try and make that happen with Lynch. If we gave up on it, and passed the ball instead, and the result ended the same? We'd all be bitching that we weren't devoted to running the ball.

We passed the ball when the deficit was so built up that we didn't have the time left to run. I can't blame Bevell on this, though that 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1 play calls in the 1st half were garbage. (And we shouldn't have even went for it on 4th down.)

 

[Crizilla]

You can't always put the burden on the players. They wouldn't have been in position to not execute if the wiser choice was made.

High risk, high reward. It's a game, folks.

 

[Crizilla]

If the question is who would you rather replace? Yes I take PC. Someone more calm, cool, and collected that doesn't let his emotions muddle up smart decision making. The Russell Wilson of coaching. Bottom line is not one person was the sole reason why the Seahawks lost. But Pete played with fire in this game too much. In the NFL, you cannot get away with that as much as you can in the College game. That's just a proven fact.

You're entitled to your opinion. Even when that opinion is wrong. Andy Reid was a calm, cool, collected coach. How many rings does he have as a HC? Wade Phillips, another calm, cool collected HC. How many playoff wins?

Pete is right or this team and this group of players. Since you disagree, feel free to not celebrate when we win the SB next season.

Even if PC wins the next 3 super bowls as our head coach, I'd still believe he made mistakes during that playoff game during the 2012 season against the Falcons. You disagree and that's fine. I won't tell you your opinion is wrong, nor will I tell you to not celebrate if the Seahawks win it all.

 

[acbass]

Pete built this team and took them to the Divisional Round of the Playoffs. Of yeah, it was with a rookie QB! There may have been some mistakes made yesterday, but we will learn from them. I still say there isn't another coach in the world I would want running my team. In retrospect, it's easy to say he should have kicked the field goal, but this team needed a spark. 3 points would have been a moral failure. He took the risk, it didn't work. He's aggressive. Everyone complained about Holmgren being to conservative. I'd rather him try and fail to do something great than sit back and not try at all. Just my opinion.

 

[Crizilla]

Andy Reid was a calm, cool, collected coach. How many rings does he have as a HC? Wade Phillips, another calm, cool collected HC. How many playoff wins?

Let's cut to the chase. Are you saying Reid and Phillips would have gone for it on 4th down, too? You can't compare other coaches careers to one measly little call. I don't know if there's another coach in this league that wouldn't have grasped the opportunity to making it a one possession game in the 1st quarter.

 

[White Devil]

Andy Reid was a calm, cool, collected coach. How many rings does he have as a HC? Wade Phillips, another calm, cool collected HC. How many playoff wins?

Let's cut to the chase. Are you saying Reid and Phillips would have gone for it on 4th down, too? You can't compare other coaches careers to one measly little call. I don't know if there's another coach in this league that wouldn't have grasped the opportunity to making it a one possession game in the 1st quarter.

Fieldgoal would have been at the end of the half, we were down 20-0.

How exactly does a field goal make it a one possession game?

 

[Barthawk]

This just in: the teams that take the field against the Seahawks are not allowed to make good plays and when they do it is 100% the fault of either a specific player or coordinator in charge of the specific area on the team that was most affected..

Perspective: we played the #1 seed in the NFC on their homefield and lost a hard fought battle.. were "mistakes" made, absolutely but that is ok because the other team is authorized to make good plays.. That Falcon team has its flaws like every other team in the NFL, but there is a reason that they have won 35 out of 41 games at home under Matt Ryan.. Furthermore, the Falcons have been the best team with regard to regular season wins the past 5 years in the NFC..

Falcons are a good team.. we battled and lost.. sucks, but unlike the years past, this team is on the rise and will only get better..

 

[Crizilla]

3 points would have been a moral failure.

So wrong it makes me sad. That moral failure puts us at 31 points.

inb4 "WELL DUDE HE COULD HAVE MISSED TEH KICK!!".

That's...not...the...point...

You need the opportunity in the first place, right? Pete limited our opportunities. I hope he learns from his mistakes. He's a great coach.

 

[Hasselbeck]

The only thing that irked me yesterday about Pete was him trying to ice Matt Bryant.

But I hate seeing that from any coach. I think it is the dumbest strategy ever and almost ALWAYS plays out the way it did yesterday.