After terminating offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates, the Seahawks evidently first pursued Josh McDaniels, Denver's freshly fired head coach, who made his name as the director New England's offense from 2006-2008, a span that included Tom Brady's record-setting 50-touchdown season in 2007.
However, McDaniels spurned our advances and signed with St. Louis instead. Ouch.
Seattle had been interviewing Darrell Bevell for our vacant quarterbacks coach position, but after McDaniels joined the Rams, we hired him as our offensive coordinator.
Bevell had served as Minnesota's offensive coordinator for the last five years, but the Vikings stripped him of the position, hired a replacement, and offered him a choice: demotion to quarterbacks coach, or permission to seek a job elsewhere.
Minnesota fielded consistently good rushing offenses under Bevell, but that's not hard to do when you have a dominant O-Line and a world-class running back like Adrian Peterson. They had one great passing year with Brett Favre in 2009.
Bevell represents a return to Holmgren's West Coast philosophy. He began his coaching career with the Packers in 2000, during the tenure of Big Show protege Mike Sherman. In that first season, he coached Matt Hasselbeck, then Green Bay's backup quarterback.
So, while Bevell is our fourth offensive coordinator in four years, he at least offers a return to something familiar for some of our veterans.
Perhaps, in welcome contrast to his two most recent predecessors, Bevell will conserve the functional elements of our present offense and gradually introduce new wrinkles, rather than confound our returning players needlessly by starting from scratch again.
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