The most exciting additions the Seahawks make this year may not be on the field but on the sidelines/in the booth. So far general manager John Schneider has been putting together an outstanding 2024 coaching staff, featuring the best defensive playcaller in the NFL and the best offensive playcaller in college football.
The latter would be Ryan Grubb, who just spent two years calling the plays for Washington, where Michael Penix Jr. blossomed into an elite quarterback and the Huskies had an offense as potent as any team in the naiton. Execs around the league have noticed. Here’s a few anecdotes from Albert Breer’s latest column at Sports Illustrated.
““Good hire… He knows how to create mismatches. He’ll spread you out, and throw the ball, and run it into light boxes.”
“All of the players love him … not just the offense, but the defense too… He does a good job adjusting his scheme to fit the personnel’s skill sets. Offense has a lot of shifts and motions to help the QB out and make it difficult on defenses…”
“It’s not uncommon for him to spend 30 minute to an hour after practice with one random area scout from a given team, even if he had no preexisting relationship with that guy… It speaks to the kind of guy he is and how much he wants to help his players—just a phenomenal person and football coach…”
Exciting stuff. The trouble of course is that great offensive coordinators are notoriously difficult to hang onto in the NFL – as they usually move their way up to a head coaching job sooner rather than later. Hopefully they can retain Grubb long enough to make a run at a Super Bowl.
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