Field Gulls
Last week I was mulling over the Seattle Seahawks offense. While the majority of players and coaches stayed, there were some changes that happened: new offensive coordinator, new running back coach, new pass game specialist. Some coaches that stayed got promotions even. While looking through their bios and coaching history, it struck me that this offensive coaching staff had a wise range of experience. So, as one does, I made a tweet about it jotting down my thoughts, and went back to running errands.
Now, I didn’t think much of it. Brock Huard, however, thought it was an interesting point. He quoted it, and brought it up on his show the next day with Mike Salk.
As Brock point out, during his experience as a player, he never had a coaching staff that had the diversity in background experience as the current coaching staff, which I found fascinating. It seems as though Mike Macdonald wants his coaches to be as versatile as his players, and that is what we will be talking about today. I will be highlighting a few different coaches on the offense, and showcase their backgrounds and how that could impact the Seahawks offense in 2026. Let’s dive on in!
Let’s start off with the man himself, the new offensive coordinator, Brian Fleury! He was a college quarterback himself from 1998 through 2002 playing for both Maryland and Towson. Soon after he went on to coach the secondary, outside linebackers, and eventually become the defensive coordinator for Sacred Heart University (2005 through 2008). Fleury went back to Towson and was their special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach from 2009 to 2012.
His NFL experience had variety to it, as well. Quality control coach for the Bills in 2013, linebackers coach for the Browns (2014-2015), football research analyst and director of football research for the Dolphins (2016-2018). Then in 2019, he started his seven years with Kyle Shanahan in San Francisco, holding many hats: defensive quality control coach (2019), offensive quality control coach (2020-2021), tight ends coach (2022-2025), and run game coordinator to add to his tight end coach duties (2025). It is worth noting that during his time with the 49ers, Fleury and Sam Darnold did cross paths, and he directly coached Seahawks tight end Eric Saubert.
With that vast experience coaching offense, defense, special teams, doing research into analytics of the game, and having been a quarterback himself, Fleury has a very holistic view of the game of football. He understands the defensive front seven, the secondary, the run game, and the pass game. Now, he will be calling plays for the Seahawks. And while he has never called plays in the NFL himself, he helped design plays for the 49ers, and would help Shanahan make in game decisions. Also, as previously mentioned, he has experience as a defensive coordinator and special teams coordinator.
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