What to expect from Fleury-led Seahawks offense
After coming off of a Super Bowl win, Patrick Daugherty and Kyle Dvorchak dive into the unknowns around Brian Fleury's reported hire as OC with the Seattle Seahawks.
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The Seahawks have found their replacement for departed offensive coordinator Clint Kubiak, who's now the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, Kyle Dvorak.
They've gone out of house, under the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree.
Brian Fleury, tight ends coach in San Francisco, the run game coordinator.
Somewhat interestingly, he's been a quality control coach on both sides of the ball with Kyle Shanahan since 2019. intriguing name.
A name we don't have much to go on.
His Wikipedia d- couldn't even nail down his birth year.
I'm assuming it'll get on that soon.
but what do we think of this hire by one of the league's best coaches, Mike McDonald, digging deep to find his new offensive coordinator?
It's weird.
I'll, I'll just, I'll just say it.
It, it's a very odd hire.
He's never called plays before, and this is a team that their Super Bowl victory, their Super Bowl winning season entirely, was fueled by elite coaching on both sides of the ball.
But on offense, at least, incredible offensive design and play calling from Clint Kubiak.
We saw two years ago, Sam Darnold had a really strong season under a really good head coach in Kevin O'Connell, and Kubiak found a way to take that to another level.
And now they're going to a guy who's never called plays, who has experience on both sides of the ball, but that also makes me think didn't have probably a clear direction until relatively recently.
But the big feather in his cap is he has coached under Kyle Shanahan, one of the other best offensive minds in the NFL.
Our blurb on this called it a heat check, and I think that's exactly what it is.
But it's a heat check from a team that just won a Super Bowl off the back of many things, but elite coaching being one, maybe the biggest factor why they won the Super Bowl.
So it's a heat check they've at least earned.
And like Sean McVay, like Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDonald has earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his assistant hires.
He moved on from Ryan Grubb after one year, got Clint Kubiak.
He's decisive, he knows what he wants.
A name we don't know a lot about, but a name we could be talking about as an elite coordinator one year from now.
