Field Gulls
Michael Byrne was a quarterback at Pacific Lutheran University near Tacoma.
We completely lost sight of this earlier this week, but the Seattle Seahawks added another coaching assistant in addition to offensive line coach John Benton and quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko.
Michael Byrne has local ties to the Seattle-Tacoma area, and now he’s returning home to start his second season as an NFL assistant.
Here’s the rundown on Byrne from the team press release:
Byrne, who played quarterback at Pacific Lutheran University, has experience both in coaching and football analytics, most recently spending last season with the Kubiak and the Saints as a coaching assistant. Prior to that, Byrne worked for Pro Football Focus as an analyst, and previously he held the title of director of football analytics at PLU.
Following his playing career, Byrne spent two seasons at Texas A&M as a football operations and offensive senior intern, working with Kubiak who at the time was kicking off his coaching career as an offensive quality control coach. From there Byrne went to West Texas A&M where he was the running backs coach, then returned to Texas A&M as a graduate assistant and assistant running backs coach. Byrne then spent one season as the co-offensive coordinator at Rudder High School in Bryan, Texas, and two seasons as the co-offensive coordinator at Vandergrift High School in Austin, Texas before returning to PLU.
I don’t know whether to start referring to Byrne as PFF_Michael (the common formatting for PFF employees on social media) or Coach Byrne, but either way he’s another one who has ties to Kubiak through either the New Orleans Saints or Kubiak’s previous jobs with the Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings. A notable ex-PFF employee in the NFL coaching ranks is Bobby Slowik, now with the Miami Dolphins as a senior pass game coordinator afte the was let go as Houston Texans OC.
Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak: Hired on January 26.
Offensive line coach John Benton: Hired on February 3
Quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko: Hired on February 3
Defensive assistant/special teams Neiko Thorpe: Promoted on February 11
Run game specialist Justin Outten: Hired on February 13
