The Seattle Seahawks fired Darrell Bevell because he was bad. Also, they kept him for seven years because he was amazing.
What?
Both are possible. At once, yes. Why not? Football’s complicated. Maybe the most complex and convoluted of the major sports. And complicated is as complicated does.
Dismissing Bevell (among others!) sends an unmistakable message: Pete Carroll had lost confidence in the man’s ability to lead the offense in 2018. But for anyone prepared to ingest a bit of nuance twenty-four hours after the fact, I’d like to offer four things the firing didn’t mean, and four seemingly conflicting things it did mean, simultaneously.