re: Seahawks fire Ryan Grubb

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who do you expect to be at QB next season and do you expect the offense to be better?

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I do not have an educated guess. My sneaking suspicion is that the staff (whether Grubb is on it or not) wants Russell to come in and blow them away (like I think they believe he will) and give him the job. Just from reading the way he talks about their conversations with him and general scouting reports, he seems to clearly have the physical and mental attributes that DeBoer wants in a QB in terms of seeing the field, making quick decisions, spreading it around, etc. Now, he'd be a true freshman, so there would obviously be some growing pains there (especially with an early schedule that goes @ FSU, Wisconsin, @ UGA).

I have no opinion on Simpson. He's clearly got some talent, but the fact that they never seemed to seriously consider playing him has to be concerning even if you are of the opinion that DeBoer felt like he had to play Milroe. My personal opinion is that Simpson needed to be close to a sure thing to supplant Milroe at some point, and he wasn't that. Doesn't mean he can't be serviceable, but I have no clue. Mack is kind of the wild card here, because he clearly has unreal tools, but I don't know how close he really is to being ready to play.

As for the offense next year - I think the offense will look more like DeBoer's offenses of the past decade with either one of them. 2 straight staffs have decided that Jalen simply cannot make specific types of throws (screens, quick throws wide, slants) without a level of risk they are not willing to take. Those things were big parts of DeBoer's schemes at Washington and I have to assume they'd return. I'm not sure our offense will be "better" in terms of aggregate numbers (we were #21 in FEI, #23 in PPG, #23 in YPP), but I'm guessing it will be more consistent. And if Russell plays and is who people seem to think he is, by the end of the year it could be more consistent and explosive (big ifs). We had games where our offense was unstoppable (Georgia, Wisconsin, LSU) and we had games where it was as bad as any offense we've put on the field since 2006 (Oklahoma, Michigan). I don't think we'll see either of those next year with Simpson or Russell. And the bigger issue with Milroe beyond not seeing receivers when they are wide open was turnovers. We lost 3 games this year where we handed the other team double digit points on turnovers (Vandy, Oklahoma, Michigan) and another where we easily could have (Auburn) - most of which were on Jalen for bad decisions or lack of awareness. That sort of stuff cannot happen.


My personal opinion is that with what we are bringing back on defense (almost everyone outside of Malachi and Campbell from a defense that was legitimately very good the last 1/2 of the season) that we start Russell and roll with it (assuming they think he can handle the mental aspect and he comes in and looks the part). Give him the whole offense, let him take some lumps, hope the defense can hold their own until he's in the flow of things and put your stamp on the offensive side of the ball. We punted on truly implementing his offensive system this season when they decided Jalen would continue being the guy - for better or worse. I don't think you can waste another year with QB bingo.