All of the most-credentialed head coaches in this cycle seem to be defense-first guys. There’s Bill Belichick, Jim Harbaugh, Dan Quinn and Mike Vrabel at the top. Meanwhile, on offfense just about all of the candidates do not have any head-coaching experience in the NFL and consist mostly of hot young offensive coordinators.
Everybody has an opinion on who the Seahawks should hire. Peter King thinks Mike Vrabel would be the perfect option to replace Pete Carroll. However, a different former Seattle head coach thinks they should go in a different direction. Yesterday Mike Holmgren told KJR radio that the team should hire an offensive coach.
Mike Holmgren just told us that he talked to John Schneider and recommended John hire an offensive coach as the next Hawks head coach.
— Dick Fain (@dickfain) January 19, 2024
While much of the focus has been on defensive candidates due to the team’s poor performance on that side of the ball, it does make more sense in some ways to pick offense. Seattle has a tremendously-talented skill group to work with offensively and a top-10 quarterback who performed brilliantly under pressure this season. With a better playcaller this could be a top-five unit. If they can also upgrade their offensive line in pass protection they could even lead the NFL in scoring.
Among the offensive candidates the Seahawks are interviewing there’s Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, Dolphins offensie coordinator Frank Smith, Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka and Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik.
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