Didn't like either, but they were both better than Bates. Schotty did not have the easiest of jobs here. Pennington had no arm, Favre came late and needed to learn the O overnight seemingly. Then gets hurt. Then he has to deal with the atrocious Sanchez
And Schotty decided to run the ball twice per drive and throw on third and long for almost every series that Seattle had possession against Dallas. He's worse than Bates because he should know better being a long time coordinator.
My brother was laughing hard at Seahawks game. He had this tidbit to share with me: "Your favorite Brian is indeed a legendary OC."
And this why I hate defensive coordinator candidates to be head coaches. They pick offensive coordinators to run a bland run first offense that simply doesn’t work in the NFL anymore.
No excuses for Schotty are acceptable. He was awful. There was a long laundry list of things that were wrong with the job that he did.
My only defense for Schottenheimer is that’s what they did all season. It’s how they got there. Hard to go away from it in the playoffs. It’s also clear Carroll is the one who wants the ground and pound.
All along the game I was killing Shotty then the next day they're killing Pete Carroll . Even during the broadcast they were mentioning the playcalling... lmao.. Love Pete but the Shotty thing is stone cold facts.
Schottenheimer was pretty shitty when he was the Jets. During this past regular season, he looked A LOT better than he was before, and I gave him credit for that. But on Sunday, he absolutely shat the bed, and it wasn't pretty. There's certainly lots of reason for the loss. But as Jets fans, post mortem would focus on a broad single factor: failure to make timely second half adjustments. As pointed out in the article, the Seahawks rushing game relied on varied runs and solid execution. That's what carried them to the playoffs. So, by the end of Q2, Schottenheimer, if he was playing attention, should have seen that the players were not executing the inside run game like he intended. Instead of continuing to call inside runs, he could have switched it up and either called outside runs or let his very efficient QB throw the football. It's worth noting that Schottenheimer's not alone. Norton kept rushing four and playing coverage. He neither rushed nor spied Prescott. That alone may have limited his rushing gains in the fourth quarter. Hopefully, the Seahawks CS learns from this loss. They're a fun team to watch.