Praise For Mike Macdonald & The New Seahawks Coaching Staff

The Seahawks hired Mike Macdonald last month, making him the youngest head coach in the NFL at 36 years old, and since then Macdonald and general manager John Schneider have gone about building a coaching staff with 23 assistants, including offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb, defensive coordinator Aden Durde and special teams coordinator Jay Harbaugh.

Ever since the Macdonald hire was made, and more recently with his coaching staff coming together, there has been a lot of positive buzz around what the Seahawks have done this offseason, and that was the case this week in Indianapolis during the NFL Scouting Combine, where coaches, executives, draft prospects and members of the media with ties to the coaching staff were offering up rave reviews about Macdonald and company.

With that in mind, Seahawks.com asked around at the combine to see what people thought about the hiring of Macdonald and the rest of the coaching staff. 

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who gave Macdonald his first NFL job in 2014, and was his boss for nine of the past 10 seasons, said, “I think Mike will do great. Mike’s great. A couple years ago, everybody was like, ‘Why Mike Macdonald?’ Now I can go, ‘Well, that’s why. You saw it.’ He’s a great guy, he’s a great coach, he’s very diligent. Yes, he’s smart, he’s thoughtful, but he’s fundamentally grounded and he’s very diligent. Every single day, all he thinks about is ways to help the guys be as good as they can be, or attack the offense that he’s going against. I do think he’ll expand that being a head coach, he’ll take those qualities and apply them to being a head coach and do a great job.”