Darrell Bevell reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield, a now deceased comedian, for those of you too young to remember, who is most remembered for the one liner " Sheesh I Get No Respect Around Here:" !
That pretty well sums up Darrell Bevell in a nut shell here on Seahawks.net, anyways. In many other circles he is a highly respected professional Offensive Coordinator.
I have read easily thousands of pages and post throughout this forum bashing the crap out of this guy. I don't know how he does it. He comes up to the podium and delivers a press conference with a room full of reporters, knowing that a lot of his haters from Seahawks.net, are setting at home watching him on their TVs, and ridiculing him aloud in their living rooms, with their families concerning themselves with the sanity of those select viewers, who are probably in part convinced that Darrell can actually hear the profanities they are lodging at him, or their families would think so anyhow. I say this from my own personal experiences with two sons, one of which is a Bevell hater and has been forever.
When I read through the post out there aimed at Darrell, I see the Seahawks family "Scape Goat", that is the fall guy who takes all the heat for everything that is inherently wrong with the rest of family. The Scape Goat makes it easy to excuse everyone else's failures when things don't work out, or go our way. He seems to take on the role pretty well, having constantly taken responsibility for just about everything we throw at him, even when there is clear evidence that what happened was totally out of his control, he will still make excuses for everyone else and blame himself for any significant failures
The other night was a classic Darrell Bevell example. In a press conference he excused the horrible and obvious barrage of Offensive Holding penalties heaped on us the other night in Arizona, actually saying that it was his fault for not doing a better job of getting the offensive linemen to quit holding to protect Russell and trust instead that Russell could work his way out of danger if they failed to block a defender.
While there was marginal truth in what he was saying, he demonstrated incredible selflessness and humility, shouldering responsibility for all of those penalty yards on his shoulders, knowing in advance that a lot of haters out there looking for someone to blame would gladly take his head on a platter, instead of focusing on the officiating crew who clearly were aimed at stacking up obstacles to Seattle's offensive success that night, given that identical "infractions" were being committed as often and in many cases much more obviously than the Seahawks Oline, and were not being held accountable for even a fraction of what was heaped on Seattle's front steps.
I look back over the years that Bevell has been acting as the Offensive Coordinator for the Seahawks, since 2011 for the record, and in these past 5 years the Seahawks have had more Offensive and Defensive successes than they had enjoyed in all the years prior to his arrival in Seattle.
I think the guy gets a bad wrap as a person and as an Offensive Coordinator. Once we weed our way though all the armchair Quarter Backs and find our way into the brains of various authorities and experienced players and coaches throughout the NFL, we find an entirely different take on Darell,.
The truth is most of our opponents fear him. They know this guy is very good at his craft. Like so many like to think, he is not setting there playing spin the football to see what the next play is he is going to call in. His mind is like a super computer, constantly processing numbers, what are the chances of this play working on this down and how many yards will it earn us if it's successful and if not what options is it going to lead to on the next play he calls in.
When its all a success and we kick the crap out of our opponents with our Offense, everyone jumps in and starts praising the players involved in the individual plays that led to our success, but little if anything is ever said about the great play calling that allowed all of these guys to shine and succeed in that battle.
Darrell sets back while we al sing their praises of the players and their rolls in and joins in their praises himself. Never saying " hold on just a damn minute there, how about a little love here for the true genius behind the scenes that made this whole thing possible".
I personally think that Darell Bevell has been a God send to the Seattle Seahawks and I think had he not been with us we wouldn't be where we are today and wouldn't have accomplished what we have over the years he has been with us.
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