Sometimes it's hard to know how much to blame Bevell for the incompetence we've seen. For example, Percy Harvin has been on three NFL teams now, and the Seahawks were basically the only ones who had no idea of how they were supposed to use him. Bevell worked with Harvin in 2009 and 2010 in Minnesota and used him well those seasons. I think the difficulties scheming Harvin were evidence of how Seattle's offense is not run by Bevell, but by a Carroll/Cable/Bevell triumvirate. It is likely that the difficulties in using Harvin did not come from Bevell's end.
Point being, it is conceivable that Bevell doesn't have as much control as a typical OC would, and therefore might not always be to blame for the developmental struggles in our offense.
I do think Bevell is the Andy Dalton of OCs, not outright horrible, but you would like to have better. He's been here four years and still hasn't developed a classic dropback passing offense, although he's finally started showing some signs of it with Wilson this season. Still, four years to only begin showing signs of that, three with a super hard-working QB in Wilson, is too long.
He has been notoriously slow to fix problems on offense in the past, though he has gotten better at this in the last couple weeks.
One other thing about Bevell, most OCs have a vision and a blue-print, but Bevell, even at his best, seems to rely on feeling out a defense and adjusting as the game goes along. It has helped Seattle be a strong second half team, but sometimes it means butt ugly first halves like the one we just saw against the Rams.
