Seattle Seahawks Hire Their New Head Coach: Mike Macdonald

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00:03 With the Ravens losing, that opened the door for Seattle, Joe, to go and

00:07 find who it is that they wanted.

00:09 And that was Ravens defensive coordinator Mike McDonald,

00:13 who is now going to be the head coach there.

00:15 So what a change, Joe, right?

00:17 Seattle goes from having the oldest head coach in the NFL, in Pete Carroll,

00:22 to now they will completely go to the other end of the spectrum and

00:26 have the youngest head coach in the NFL with McDonald.

00:30 Your thoughts, Joe?

00:30 >> It's not a bad hire because Seattle, from a defensive perspective,

00:35 does have concerns.

00:37 That is the weakness of this team.

00:38 But the concern for McDonald is, what can he get out of the offense?

00:42 I mean, if Pete Carroll and that team struggled for only nine wins last year,

00:46 can McDonald take them past that?

00:49 Because Pete Carroll's a great game planner, right?

00:51 And he related to the younger players, even though he was an older guy,

00:55 can McDonald do that?

00:56 Or is this gonna look like a situation where Arizona, with Gannon,

01:00 they played hard, they covered games, but they just didn't win a lot.

01:04 So that is gonna be a concern, I think.

01:06 I think when you go up against San Francisco, and even now,

01:09 a resurgence with the LA Rams and Sean McVay,

01:13 maybe the third best team in the conference, record wise, certainly.

01:17 But what do you get with a first year coach?

01:19 >> Right, and of course, you've got some changes in philosophy.

01:23 As you just said, I think that when you're especially a young first time coach,

01:28 and he will be the youngest coach, as I just said, I think that that calls for,

01:32 Joe, maybe a veteran or an offensive coordinator who's been around a while,

01:38 some stability, somebody who's seen it in the league.

01:42 Now, it's a young man's game now, right?

01:45 Look at how many younger head coaches we're going with around the league.

01:49 But you would like to think that maybe that's the way they're going to look,

01:53 potentially, in terms of maybe finding an offensive side of the ball.

01:57 Cuz this guy, listen, his defense is great in Baltimore this year.

01:59 But you're right, you need to have somebody with you

02:01 from the offensive perspective that's going to be able to get it done.

02:05 >> Yeah, look at all the talent that they have there.

02:08 Zach Schorman, Kenneth Walker, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett.

02:12 I mean, the talent is there.

02:14 This isn't Arizona with Gannon, where it's a complete rebuild.

02:17 This is like, okay, you're nine and eight.

02:20 He's gotta get them now to find a way to get them to 12 and five.

02:25 Because you know the Rams are back now with Kyron Williams, Stafford,

02:28 being healthy.

02:29 Look at that talent.

02:30 They're clearly the second best team heading into next season.

02:34 So Seattle has to compete with that.

02:37 They lost both games to them this year.

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