Mike Macdonald is the New Seattle Seahawks Head Coach
Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans
Brandan Schulze
4.7 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Seattle Seahawks announced their new head coach today -- former Baltimore Ravens Defensive Coordinator Mike Macdonald. The Seahawks shift from the oldest coach to the youngest coach in the NFL. We talk about why the hire made sense for the Seahawks, what news we're still waiting on, and if there are any concerns moving forward. Which players on defense could this benefit and which former Ravens could follow Macdonald to Seattle. Plus, live reactions from those who joined in live!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Seahawkers podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Brandon Schultz, and I am joined by my good buddy, Adam Emmert, as Adam. |
| 0:15.1 | The Seahawks have hired a new head coach, the Ravens former defensive coordinator, |
| 0:23.1 | Mike McDonald, coming to the Seahawks, |
| 0:28.8 | officially announced just less than about 20 minutes ago. We got the official announcement. |
| 0:33.8 | Gosh, we found out earlier this afternoon, but it took up the Seahawks press staff, |
| 0:39.4 | you know, a full five hours to write up a press release. You never know. Maybe they were hammering out a few of the contract details. |
| 0:57.6 | One of the reasons we wanted to wait, let's make sure it's official just in case, you know, something happens maybe last minute. But it's official, man. It is Mikey Mack time. I'm fired up, dude. This is going to be awesome. I think this is a great hire about as good as you can do in terms of, you know, |
| 1:02.7 | do you do diligence, you get the guys that have the best qualifications. And then from there, |
| 1:07.8 | it's always a roll of a dice. And I like it. This is about as well as you could have done, |
| 1:13.1 | I think. Well, and we talked about it even leading up to this hire because you have this opportunity to go through all the candidates that you hear about all the interviews and you hear |
| 1:17.9 | the pros and cons of each. |
| 1:19.5 | You go through them. |
| 1:20.8 | And then you get the news earlier this week that sounds like Ben Johnson is out. |
| 1:26.8 | He's going to stay in Detroit. And then it's |
| 1:28.4 | like, okay, well, there's one guy off the board. And it did feel like there were two candidates |
| 1:33.5 | that Seahawks fans were kind of migrating toward. And I know we all kind of had our other favorites |
| 1:40.4 | too, whether it was Mike Kafka, you know, Igero Avero, some of the other one, Dan |
| 1:47.2 | Quinn, you know, we talked about him a lot. And so once Ben Johnson fell out, I think one of the |
| 1:53.3 | reasons why so many of us, too, were gravitating toward Mike McDonald was that his history, not just against Patrick Mahomes in the |
| 2:04.8 | AFC championship. Yeah, they give up some points early, but they shut him down after |
| 2:10.0 | halftime. And then you pile that on top of his record against the NFC West. |
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