NorthHawk wrote:We really don't know how much input Cable actually had. We do know that the players along the OL before Cable and after Cable haven't been great, so the pattern of not addressing the IoL or not making great picks stands alone in my mind.
It might be as simple as Cable having the same philosophy as Schneider/Carroll so they thought alike and ended up with sub par results.
You're right, we don't know how much input Cable had. But we can make some informed guesses. We know that Cable had Pete's ear or else he wouldn't have named him as his assistant HC over even his coordinators. Cable was the only coach on Pete's staff that had HC experience. And, he kept him around for a long time, for 6 years.
I'm not sure if I told you guys this, but I have a good friend that was invited to the Hawks rookie camp as a UDFA back in 2012 or 2013. He was an offensive tackle in college but was a little short, 6'3" and about 320 pounds, and was part of the first cuts. He didn't have a lot of good things to say about Cable, said that he worked him on the opposite side of the OL than he played in college, did the same thing to a guy from USC. That doesn't pertain to the point of our discussion here, I just thought I'd mention it.