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Head coach Mike Macdonald has hired 23 assistants to join his inaugural staff for the 2024 NFL season.
The Seattle Seahawks revealed their complete coaching staff yesterday. At final tally, head coach Mike Macdonald has hired 23 assistants to join his inaugural staff for the 2024 NFL season.
Here’s a look at each of them, broken down by different phases of the game.
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The Seattle Seahawks appear to finally be finished building their coaching staff for the 2024 season.
The Seattle Seahawks appear to finally be finished building their coaching staff for the 2024 season.
On Thursday the team announced that 15 more assistants were joining head coach Mike Macdonald’s staff. Most of the names had already been reported, but there were also a few new ones in the bunch. Here is the full list they shared on the offical team site.
This is in addition to the seven coaches that the team officially announced last week, bringing the total to 22 assistants under Macdonald.
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The Seahawks are hard at work filling out their first coaching staff of the post-Pete Carroll era.
The Seattle Seahawks are hard at work filling out their first coaching staff of the post-Pete Carroll era. The team has already confirmed seven new coaching hires one week ago today, and several more have been reported.
Here is where we will be tracking all of the team’s reported hirings.
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Here is the complete list of the coaches serving on Pete Carroll’s 2022 staff.
The Seahawks just made all of their recent reported coaching changes official and have added a few more interesting names to boot, including former fullback Will Tukuafu as a defensive quality control coach.
Here’s the complete list of coaches who will be serving on Pete Carroll’s 2022 staff.
Pete Carroll, Executive VP, Head Coach
Clint Hurtt, Defensive Coordinator
Larry Izzo, Special Teams Coordinator
Shane Waldron, Offensive Coordinator
Dave Canales, Quarterbacks
Nate Carroll, Senior Offensive Assistant
Aaron Curry, Assistant DL/DE
Sean Desai, Associate Head Coach-Defense
Andy Dickerson, Offensive Line
John Glenn, Linebackers
Brad Idzik, Assistant WR
Kerry Joseph, Assistant QB
Keli’i Kekuewa, Assistant OL
Sanjay Lal, Offensive Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers
Damione Lewis, Assistant DL/DT
Pat McPherson, Tight Ends
Chad Morton, Run Game Coordinator, Running Backs
Karl Scott, Defensive Passing Game Coordinator, Defensive Backs
DeShawn Shead, Assistant DB
Carl Smith, Associate Head Coach
Tracy Smith, Assistant Special Teams
Will Tukuafu, Quality Control-Defense
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The Seattle Seahawks have made several reported changes to Pete Carroll’s coaching staff over the last 24 hours.
The Seattle Seahawks have made several reported changes to Pete Carroll’s coaching staff over the last 24 hours.
Here’s a tracker covering all the moves that we know about so far.
The NFL’s coach hiring cycle has been abnormally slow this year.
The NFL’s coach hiring cycle has been abnormally slow this year. That could be one of the reasons the Seahawks haven’t made their reported defensive hirings official as of yet.
So far, we’ve learned that defensive line coach Clint Hurtt is expected to be promoted to defensive coordinator. Former Broncos DC Ed Donatell is also reported to be joining the staff, as well. The last piece of the puzzle is who will replace Andre Curtis as the defensive pass game coordinator.
The Seahawks have been reported to be hiring Karl Scott for this role. He spent the 2021 season on Mike Zimmer’s Vikings staff after three years as Nick Saban’s DB coach at Alabama. There are conflicting reports on this account, though and former Bears defensive coordinator Sean Desai remains a subject of interest.
Fans should expect a resolution soon.
The Giants are apparently going to hire Wink Martindale as their new DC. That leaves only one more prime defensive coaching spot open around the league. The Saints have promoted DC Dennis Allen to head coach after Sean Payton’s exit. Once his former position is filled the dominoes should fall into place.
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Pete also doesn’t seem to be pondering any changes to his staff.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll doesn’t sound concerned about his job security. Following yesterday’s victory over the Cardinals, Carroll told reporters that he’s in great shape on that count.
Pete also doesn’t seem to be pondering any changes to his staff. Speaking in his weekly ESPN radio hit, Carroll said he wasn’t anticipating any right now.
Pete says “I don’t anticipate anything right now” when asked about potential changes to coaching staff. Asked about other changes this offseason, he says: “I don’t have the answers for you right now.”
Pete really trying not focus on changes/future on radio right now.
— Dugar, Michael-Shawn (@MikeDugar) January 10, 2022
Special teams coordinator Larry Izzo did a sensational job this season and his position should be as secure as anyone’s.
Defensive teams coordinator Ken Norton Jr. took a lot of heat during a brutal first few games of the year. However, his unit rounded into shape around Russell Wilson’s injury in Week 5 and played exceptionally well for the rest of the season for the most part. As long as Carroll is safe, Norton should be considered safe as well.
The only maybe is offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, a relatively unknown commodity. Waldron’s offense looked brilliant the first couple of weeks then sputtered and eventually fell off a cliff after Wilson’s injury. He did appear to figure things out in Weeks 17-18 though, which should give him some breathing room.
Our money is on the entire trifecta returning in 2022. As for position coaches, they’ll need to replace their former quarterbacks coach Sean Davis, but other than that there’s no reason to believe any other change is needed.
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Head coach Pete Carroll says he’s talked to Peterson about coaching.
Adrian Peterson only played one game in a Seahawks uniform before a back injury put him on the sidelines. Peterson’s value has gone far beyond his own performance, though. AD is being credited with helping to inspire the recent explosion by Rashaad Penny, who was just named the NFC’s Offensive Player of the Week.
Peterson’s obvious positive influence has brought out suggestions that he should be a running backs coach. Apparently, it might be a thing. Head coach Pete Carroll says he’s talked to Peterson about coaching. However, Peterson wants to keep playing for now.
Pete Carroll says he's talked to Adrian Peterson about becoming a coach (perhaps with the Seahawks?).
But "he wants to play," for now, anyway.
— Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) January 5, 2022
Peterson is not the athlete he was and his playing days are nearly over, whether he can find a team to pay him in 2022 or not. A four-time All Pro and former MVP, Peterson has nothing left to prove as a player. He obviously has ability as a motivator and that’s something this team sorely needs.
File this one under the to be continued category.
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