Darrell Bevell and the Return of Smash Mouth Football
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I would guess, independent of Favre, Bevell likes to establish the run and build the passing game off of play action. Once defenses sell out to stop the run, Bevell cranks up the passing game. But whatever the ratio, the offense is always built through the run.
Which makes the marriage of Bevell and offensive line coach Tom Cable make a lot of sense. Both want to run the ball, running the ball will be the foundation of the offense, and the pass will work from that. Maybe we should call Bevell a passing game coordinator. Whatever you want to call it, expect Seattle to invest resources into improving the run game and judge its offensive success in 2011 by the performance of that run game.
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If Seattle doesn't re-sign Hasselbeck, the beauty of a run-first offense is that it lessens the responsibility of the quarterback. Vince Young, Tarvaris Jackson, young Ben Roethlisberger, Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan, Chad Henne, Eli Manning among a host of others have had varying degrees of success executing run-first systems.
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But, from everything Pete Carroll has said with his words and through his hires, Seattle is attempting smash mouth football. Adjust your off-season checklists and mock drafts accordingly.
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