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[@ChewsCarefully]

Yo, guys: I haven't been here in a while so I clicked the playlist & let it run. I'm actually listening to your takes on the Giants as I'm writing this. See, in that one, Andy makes the point that Kayvon Thibodeaux (parlez-vous français?) got 6 sacks against the Commanders & Jets. Here you're talking about Russ having had a decent season in '23 as if saying Only Hackett made him bad. Not the right context. Russ threw behind the line of scrimmage 23.7% of the time last season. He _has_ an RB (Perine) placed there on every pass play as a safety valve. But NONE of those passes BtLOS were called for *especially* on 3rd & long which was most often created by Russ doing this on 1st or 2nd downs. Perine was there for when Russ can't scramble to where he can see the field. With Russ, inability to scramble means inability to see the field. 23.7% of the time he can't see the field? His TDs came mostly on TOs created by the defense giving them short fields. But when you can't see the field 23.7% of the time, work out how many 1st downs one needs on average to get withing scoring distance from one's own 20. He's going to set up 3rd & long At Least Once & I'm willing to bet that his % of passes _on_ 3rd & long that went BtLOS (because defenses know it's a pass) is higher. He could sustain No Drives.

[@putmeincoachpod2024]

Hey! Welcome back man. Great context on the Russ stuff. I don't think Russ has been elite in years, so I won't argue you there. I think two things can be true at the same time; Russ is a bit washed, and Nat Hackett is also by no means a high-end OC. Thanks for catching up, man.

[@ChewsCarefully]

@@putmeincoachpod2024 Oh, definitely. The thing said about Mecole Hardman I think, saying they had no identity? That's on Hackett. But Russ has led in passes BtLOS 5 years straight, so the Seahawks knew this was a growing concern. I think it's likely Wal-Mart did not. But yeah, Payton wasn't yelling for nothing. Bridgewater, Winston & Brees, 3 QBs he elevated more than any NFL coach did with any other QB. Russ was his kryptonite. & Hackett... The problem is NFL team owners do Not Know what makes good NFL anythings. & when they eff up with a hire like that they usually double down because the alternative is to hire someone possibly worse? If they got this garbage because they don't know what they're doing, the potential to do worse always looms possible. Fun stuff. This is why my comments tend to point this out: as fans (& analysts) we like to think there's competence at Every Level & that mistakes are the outliers. No. Josh McDaniels, Matt Patricia... not outliers.

[@putmeincoachpod2024]

@@ChewsCarefully So so true! Attention to detail is what separates great front offices from mediocre front offices. It was a great chess move by Seattle getting ahead of the Russel Wilson fall off.

[@ChewsCarefully]

@@putmeincoachpod2024 Front offices. Did you read the article about McDermott no one is being sued for libel over? If they'd promoted Daboll instead, imagine? If he can elevate Dan Jones to what he did in '22 imagine what he would have done with Josh Allen.