kind of an interesting article here, though i mostly just skimmed it. Again, i think people are freaking out over this run more thing without really understanding what is on Pete's mind. Here is a look at how the run game is really pretty much a mess, including how they were running the read option. That is what Pete might have been thinking, they need to run the read option better and more. These guy argues that or just abandon it. I think its crazy to conclude that Pete has already decided that the answer to fixing things is to just run more.
He also points out in terms of lynch, that having RW on the read option was a big reason for Lynch's success, which I think is a really good point in terms of our Lynch nostalgia
How can one remain dangerous as a scrambler and turn into a virtual non-entity as a designed runner? I’m not smart enough to figure that out without oodles of time on my hands. I also don’t know how much of the switch to a power/zone blocking mix with Mike Solari compared to Tom Cable’s ZBS based approach is having an impact on the running game as a whole.
(Side note: This is not the point of my post but I believe one of the bigger failures of the Schottenheimer era was not getting Wilson out of the pocket more often on rollouts akin to what Sean McVay and Gary Kubiak and Kevin Stefanski love to do with their quarterbacks.)
The Seahawks have to either reincorporate Wilson into the rushing attack or readjust to a world where Russell is basically not involved anymore. There is no point in running read-options if teams don’t have to anticipate Wilson keeping it, and then when he does he turns the corner at a much slower speed than we’ve grown accustomed to seeing.
Speaking of Seahawks players scarcely running it, do you know how many carries Tyler Lockett had this season? Exactly. He had none. Schotty still kept motioning him to tease a handoff that never happened. Pre-leg break, Lockett memorably turned a jet sweep into a 75-yard touchdown. His subsequent 27 carries gained 122 yards over the next three seasons, including a robust -5 yards on four attempts in 2019. David Moore became the wide receiver runner of choice and turned half of his eight carries in 2020 to first downs.
Seattle’s style of running is just not as diverse as it used to be and I think it’s absolutely playing into a lot of the predictability problems that they experienced as the season progressed.
https://www.fieldgulls.com/2021/1/20/22 ... ris-carson