toffee":1o68h34p said:
Our offense struggled, Pete's meddling? OL? Russ' injury? Geno's limitation? But our offense has a first ballot QB, two top caliber WRs, a TE hand picked by our new OC, and an OL that's no worse than '20. WR corp wise, DK certainly less productive. running game? what running game?
I am of the opinion that Shane our OC was a bad hire, this young man has coached in HC, college and NFL but he was never the OC or HC at any level, not even high school, ie he was never entrusted to call plays. He also never hold down a job for 2 years until the Rams. At Rams, he was passed over on OC, got responsibility (QB coach) taken from him. Do we even know if he designed, game planned or called any plays in LA? Ummm,
It was published that the season will start with mostly plays from Hawks playbook but he will incorporate his own plays game by game. Our offense regress game by game.
Pete ought to be fired for making poor hires, KNJ wasn't good, Shane is looking even worst.
I think there's a lot of things at play to explain why the offense is playing so poorly and/or inconsistent.
1 - Pete wants the offense to play in a way that limits turn overs and is about field position which maybe is not the best fit for the way the team is built currently. Pete has some blame.
2 - New OC from a passing system who is learning the Seahawks players, way and how to work with new boss PC as well as RW who is NOT a traditional QB. OC has some blame obviously.
3 - RW either is incapable of or refuses to pass short/middle which teams have enough tape and stats to acknowledge and use against him and the team. Especially because it means he's famine or feast in his production, he'll hold the ball too long trying to get outside and take a sack or make that bomb pass. Plus he's coming back form injury and he's been conditioned in a way to play hero ball to the point where he almost relies on it too much and now teams also are ready for it combined with his finger which does not help hero ball (long bombs which require 100% accuracy). RW has some blame.
4 - Carson is injured - Carson is fantastic....when hes on the field. Alex Collins is fine, but by definition the best a back up RB (or any position player) can be is #33 in the league.
5 - O-Line - Always an issue, partly to blame on coaching, players and RW it's all tied together, but regardless part of the blame.
So as we see above, there's a whole lot of blame to go around why the offense is so bad. But at the end of the day...change/direction comes from the top down not the bottom up. At the top level, you are responsible for everyone underneath you...it is why you are paid the big bucks. You either stop meddling so people below can be the most effective and they complain that you're riding off their coat tails OR if they are NOT effective, you meddle enough until they are effective.
So the most blame goes to Pete (or even Jody Allen).
The NFL is a business, the Seahawks is a business and thus follows the same general resource responsibilities and accountability.