The Seattle Seahawks made a major alter prior this month that exceptionally few saw coming when they evacuated Pete Carroll as the team’s h
It’s presently been two weeks since the Seahawks separated ways with the franchise’s winningest head coach, and whereas three groups have filled their head coaching opening since at that point, Seattle is still working through interviews.
There are five candidates who allegedly gotten or will get moment interviews:
Dallas cautious facilitator Dan Quinn, Los Angeles protective facilitator Raheem Morris, Las Vegas protective facilitator Patrick Graham, Carolina protective facilitator Ejiro Evero and Modern York hostile facilitator Mike Kafka.
Pelissero said that in fact in show disdain toward of the truth that most of the five point by point candidates getting minute interviews aren’t “household names,” that he considers it’s a really extraordinary list.
Kafka interviews once more with the Seahawks on Wednesday. The Mammoths had one of the NFL’s most exceedingly bad offenses in 2023 due in portion to wounds within the backfield, but Pelissero says Kafka is somebody well-respected within the NFL.
Evero has led top defenses each of the last two years despite his teams’ offenses being arguably the NFL’s worst.
“There’s a reason he’s had, I believe, eight head coaching interviews over the last two years here and has been a finalist, he’s gotten a second interview, for several of them because he’s a really good football coach,” Pelissero said. ” … He’s doing something right. I know they don’t want to let him out of Carolina. He’s a real candidate.”
That doesn’t mean that one of those candidates will be the Seahawks’ next head coach.
The team has interviewed Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, whose team is still in the playoffs, and Seattle also has reported interest in talking to Baltimore defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald.
Due to new NFL rule changes, interviewing those two is a little trickier for the Seahawks, especially with Macdonald since Seattle now can’t talk to him until the Ravens’ season ends, which could be this week or after the Super Bowl.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they double back on some of these coaches that are still in the playoffs as well. We’re early in this process,” Pelissero said. “I’m sure people get nervous when they see other teams like Tennessee swooping in and hiring Brian Callahan. Well, the Seahawks’ situation was a little bit different in terms of when they made that move and what they’re looking for in the head coach. I think that they’re going to take their time. It’s not to say they can’t make a hire this week, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we get into at least next week and they continue to consider their options and keep those conversations
That doesn’t mean that one of those candidates will be the Seahawks’ next head coach.
The team has interviewed Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, whose team is still in the playoffs, and Seattle also has reported interest in talking to Baltimore defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald.
Due to new NFL rule changes, interviewing those two is a little trickier for the Seahawks, especially with Macdonald since Seattle now can’t talk to him until the Ravens’ season ends, which could be this week or after the Super Bowl.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they double back on some of these coaches that are still in the playoffs as well. We’re early in this process,” Pelissero said. “I’m sure people get nervous when they see other teams like Tennessee swooping in and hiring Brian Callahan. Well, the Seahawks’ situation was a little bit different in terms of when they made that move and what they’re looking for in the head coach. I think that they’re going to take their time. It’s not to say they can’t make a hire this week, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we get into at least next week and they continue to consider their options and keep those conversations
“You never say never on any of this. I just don’t know that I view Mike Vrabel personally, in my opinion, as a fit for what Seattle is probably ultimately looking for,” Pelissero later added.
The focus for the Seahawks, Pelissero said, has to be on the right fit more so than the biggest name.
“They’ve got to look for the Seahawks next head coach, not the guy that everybody else wants, not the right coach for the Chargers,” he said. “If Bill Belichick ends up in Atlanta and Jim Harbaugh ends up in L.A. and the Seahawks end up with somebody else, that doesn’t mean the Seahawks made the wrong decision. It means they’re trying to fit the right environment to the right coach. And I think that at this point, John Schneider and that front office have earned the right for people to believe that they’re going to be able to get this thing right because you don’t have as much long standing tradition of winning like they have … you don’t build a culture with that level of success sustained if you’re not a good judge of people, a good judge of coaches, a good judge of what’s the best thing for your building.”
Because Quinn coached for the Seahawks under Carroll, including two years as defensive coordinator when Seattle made back-to-back Super Bowls, many think he’s the favorite to get hired as the team’s next head coach, especially because he has past head coaching experience in Atlanta.
Pelissero doesn’t see it that way.
“I don’t think that there is a favorite right now in Seattle. That’s my honest opinion,” he said. “Obviously John and a lot of other people in that building know Dan Quinn. He was there for the glory years with the Legion of Boom. He is a really, really good football coach. He knows culture, he’s adaptable. You look at the scheme they’re running right now in Dallas, it’s not the the Seattle scheme. I mean, he has changed and evolved … He’s very much in the thick of this thing.”
Pelissero doesn’t think the Seahawks are just checking boxes by doing an extensive interviewing process. He believes the Seahawks are being really thorough with their candidate pool for a reason.
“Every coach they’re bringing through there that has gotten to the second interview, they believe could be the guy for Seattle. And so again, they’re going to spend a lot of time with all these guys for the course of this week, and quite possibly could extend into next week,” he said. “If Mike Macdonald emerges … we might be after the Super Bowl without a head coach formally being named in Seattle. But I think that the next seven days will be critical here and we’ll see where they come out on the other side.”
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