The Seattle Seahawks will consider a division rival for their offensive coordinator opening.
San Francisco 49ers tight ends coach Brian Fleury is interviewing today for the Seahawks offensive coordinator job, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
The Seahawks need a new offensive coordinator after Klint Kubiak left to become head coach of the Raiders. Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald runs the defense, so offensive coordinator is the most important assistant on his staff.
Fleury is a longtime member of Kyle Shanahan’s 49ers staff. Fleury and Shanahan originally worked together on the Browns’ stasff in 2014, and Shanahan hired Fleury in 2019, originally as a defensive quality control coach before moving him to offensive quality control in 2020, promoting him to tight ends coach in 2022 and then adding run game coordinator to his title last year.
Macdonald has plenty of experience coaching against the 49ers’ offense, and he was impressed enough that he’s now considering adding a coach from that staff to his team.
Seahawks Clips
When it comes to betting, there’s inside information. And there’s outside information. Literally.
A clip is making the rounds of a guy who showed up outside Levi’s Stadium during the rehearsal of the national anthem for Super Bowl LX, performed by Charlie Puth. The guy brought a stopwatch and a listening device. He heard it. He timed it.
He bet accordingly on the duration of the anthem. And he won.
Although some are calling it inside information, it isn’t. He wasn’t part of the production. He heard what anyone could have heard while standing in a public place.
Anyone could have done it. It was smart. And it highlights one of the basic flaws in the system when it comes to betting on specific facts unrelated to what happens once the game begins.
He also could have done it for the halftime show. If he’d heard one of the rehearsals, he could have dropped a bet in one of the prediction markets as to the first song to be performed by Bad Bunny.
It’s legitimate. Next year, more people should do it during the Super Bowl LXI rehearsals at SoFi Stadium.
Until such wagers aren’t made available, anyone with the time, the inclination, and the equipment to show up and listen can make some easy money.
Of course, if enough people do it, those types of bets will eventually be removed from the board. Until then, go get paid.
The Raiders will interview Seahawks safeties coach Jeff Howard on Saturday for their defensive coordinator job, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports.
Howard worked with new Raiders coach Klint Kubiak in Minnesota and Seattle.
Howard began his NFL coaching career in 2013 with the Vikings. He was a defensive assistant for seven seasons in Minnesota.
He was with the Browns from 2020-22, serving as the defensive backs coach and pass game coordinator. After one season as the Chargers’ linebackers coach in 2023, Howard joined the Seahawks.
Kubiak overlapped with Howard with the Vikings in two different stints (2013-14, 2019-21) and again last season in Seattle.
Mike Macdonald’s successor as the Ravens defensive coordinator will reportedly be joining Macdonald’s staff in Seattle for the 2026 season.
Clarence Hill of All City DLLS reports that Zach Orr will be the new inside linebackers coach for the Seahawks. Orr spent the last two seasons as the defensive coordinator in Baltimore.
Per the report, Orr chose the spot on the Seahawks’ staff over filling the same role for the Cowboys.
Orr and Macdonald were on the Ravens’ staff together from 2017-2020 and again in 2022 and 2023. Orr was the inside linebackers coach and Macdonald was the coordinator in the second stint. Orr also played for the Ravens from 2014-2016 when Macdonald was a coaching intern and defensive assistant.
Seahawks assistant coach Karl Scott interviewed with the Cardinals for their defensive coordinator job this week.
Scott, though, will remain with the Seahawks with the Cardinals set to retain Nick Rallis, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports.
Scott has served as Seattle’s defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator for the past four seasons.
The Seahawks ranked first in scoring defense in 2025 and were 10th in passing defense (193.9 yards per game) and fifth in interceptions (18).
Scott interviewed for the Commanders’ defensive coordinator job this offseason and for the same role with the Raiders in 2024. His only coordinating experience came at Southeastern Louisiana in 2014.
Scott began his NFL coaching career as a defensive backs coach with the Vikings in 2021 after 14 seasons in the college ranks.
New Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak had interest in bringing one of the Seahawks’ offensive assistants with him, but Seattle isn’t interested in letting it happen.
Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, the Seahawks blocked run game specialist/assistant offensive line coach Justin Outten from interviewing to be Las Vegas’ run game coordinator.
Outten, 42, joined the Seahawks in 2025 after spending a pair of seasons with the Titans. He was the club’s running backs coach and run game coordinator in 2023 and stayed on under head coach Brian Callahan as tight ends coach in 2024.
He was previously the Broncos’ offensive coordinator in 2022 and the Packers’ tight ends coach from 2019-2021.
Outten is expected to be a candidate to replace Kubiak as Seattle’s offensive coordinator.
Longtime Ravens assistant coach Daniel Stern is leaving for the Seahawks.
Stern has been in Baltimore for 10 years, most recently with the title of director of football strategy/assistant quarterbacks coach. He is now taking a job in Seattle, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
We don’t yet know what Stern’s title will be in Seattle, but the report says he could be the Seahawks’ pass game strategist.
Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald was a co-worker of Stern’s on the Ravens coaching staff for seven seasons, and now Macdonald will bring Stern in to work for the defending Super Bowl champions.
The Seahawks have to fill their offensive coordinator job after Klint Kubiak’s departure to become the Raiders head coach earlier this week and their first external candidate has been identified.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that they will interview Cardinals pass game specialist Connor Senger for the top offensive job on Mike Macdonald’s coaching staff.
Senger recently interviewed for the same job in Chicago, but the Bears opted to go with Press Taylor to fill that position. He also met with the Eagles before they hired Sean Mannion.
Four current Seahawks assistants have also been identified as candidates to replace Kubiak. Quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, passing game coordinator Jake Peetz, assistant offensive line coach/run game specialist Justin Outten, and tight ends coach Mack Brown make up that list.
The Rams had to watch a division rival celebrate a Super Bowl title last Sunday and the pain of that was made all the worse by how close the Rams came to being the NFC’s representative in the game.
After splitting two games with the Seahawks in the regular season, the Rams had their chance to win the season series and the conference title in Seattle in late January. Edge rusher Jared Verse said on The Pivot podcast that the young defense came into that game feeling that “we’ve got this all sealed” because they felt they had learned from mistakes that contributed to their loss in their previous matchup with Seattle.
The Seahawks hit on a 51-yard pass to wide receiver Rashid Shaheed on their first offensive possession in the NFC title game and Verse said everyone on the unit was “kind of like s---ting the bed” as a result. Verse said that he feels the failure to turn that back around was the reason for the Rams’ loss.
“When we started having trouble, we didn’t know what to do,” Verse said. “Like some of us on the defense, some, you know, I’m going to take full blame, too. Like, there were a couple of times I’m like, but they’re running the other way. Like, I don’t know what to do. I can’t chase. Like I’m not that fast. I can’t chase him on the backside. What do I do? So when we had some troubles, we just kind of like mentally shut down.”
Verse and his teammates will get two more shots at the Seahawks this season and they’ll get a chance to show what they learned from their last experience against their division rivals.
Now that the 2025 NFL season has ended, attention has turned to the start of the next season.
And with the 49ers and Rams due to stage a Week 1 game in Melbourne, some interesting permutations are percolating.
John Ourand of Puck, who recently reported that the 49ers-Rams game in Melbourne will happen as part of the NFL’s opening weekend, now reports Rams-49ers will happen on Wednesday, September 9, or Thursday, September 10.
It could be 49ers-Rams on Wednesday, with the Seahawks’ home opener landing on Thursday. That also could flip, with the Seahawks playing on Wednesday and the Australia game happening on Thursday.
Either way, NBC will televise the Seahawks game. A to-be-determined streamer will broadcast 49ers-Rams.
It still makes a ton of sense, in our view, to play 49ers-Rams on Sunday, September 6. That would give both teams the most time possible to recover from the travel and time difference to get ready for Week 2, and beyond. Currently, however, it appears that Rams-49ers will be a midweek game — and possibly the first game of the 2026 season.
