When Darrell Bevell was brought in to be the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks, many pointed to his success in Minnesota, where he had one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, Brett Favre. Since coming over to Seattle however, the offense hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire, despite consistently adding the league’s top-flight weapons.

He’s had Marshawn Lynch who is no doubt a top 3 running back, Russell Wilson a quarterback with Michael Vick’s rushing ability but an exponentially better passer. Last year had a healthy Percy Harvin while this year the team added the league’s best tight end and red zone threat, Jimmy Graham.

Granted Harvin proved to be a headache in the locker room, leading to his exit. Though while he was on the field Bevell could not engineer an offense to capitalize on his talent, and the Seahawks stumbled out of the gate.

This year with Graham has been a mixed bag so far. Week 1 in St. Louis Graham had 6 receptions and a touchdown, not bad. Although Week 2 against a Packers defense that frankly doesn’t exactly scare opponents, Graham was the definition of a non-factor.

What’s more, Bevell has shown he can’t make the right calls. No more needs to be said about the end of Super Bowl XLIX, why exactly if you want to call a pass play you call a slant route into traffic is baffling. But in the last play in overtime versus St. Louis he showed he still hadn’t quite learned his lesson. When everyone knew the ball was going to Lynch, he calls for a run out of the shotgun, as a result Lynch was stopped and it was game over.

There’s a reason why Bevell hasn’t been in the mix for any head coaching vacancies during the Seahawks’ current run of success, even as two other former coordinators now are head coaches. It’s because he fails to capitalize on his players’ talents and cracks under pressure. Right now the Seahawks have unmatched talent, imagine if they had a coordinator’s talent did too.

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