Seahawks hiring Brian Fleury as OC

[Trackhawk]

Those who hate analytics aren’t going to be happy with the Fleury and Orr hires.

 

[hawks85]

At this point, how can any of us doubt what Coach Mike is doing or has done. We just won the freaking SB. I trust Coach Mike

 

[GemCity]

At this point, how can any of us doubt what Coach Mike is doing or has done. We just won the freaking SB. I trust Coach Mike

JS an MM got this done fast!! We just won the SB ffs and here they are..stacking the deck.

MM don’t play. He quit grade school because of recess.

 

[keasley45]

It makes perfect sense. In Peetz we have a guy who knows our passing game, likely having helped Kubiak to expand his passing game knowledge and game plan week to week. We have a guy in house (Peetz) who came from the McVay / Shan tree and knows how the air game operates. What we didnt have was a guy with direct ties to the root scheme from a run perspective. Fleury is that guy. He knows the TE game which i think will be absolutley key to our offense movjng forward- Peetz left the Rams before it rose to prominance under McVay. Fleury also has a base in defense.
This all smells to me like a move that further expands our own personal brand of Shan/McVay ball emphasizing the run gane and TEs, gets us a guy who had immediate credibility given who he worked for and the personality he seems to have, AND if it all works and next year and he become the next hot HC name, Peetz will have had another yeat to fully emerse himself in the system and is in line to be our next OC.
Seems like, as on defense, we have set ourselves up for the next cycle of hires if we are successful and teams want to poach from us again. Orr is an ideal replacement for Durdy if he gets a gig next year.

 

[GemCity]

It makes perfect sense. In Peetz we have a guy who knows our passing game, likely having helped Kubiak to expand his passing game knowledge and game plan week to week. We have a guy in house (Peetz) who came from the McVay / Shan tree and knows how the air game operates. What we didnt have was a guy with direct ties to the root scheme from a run perspective. Fleury is that guy. He knows the TE game which i think will be absolutley key to our offense movjng forward- Peetz left the Rams before it rose to prominance under McVay. Fleury also has a base in defense.
This all smells to me like a move that further expands our own personal brand of Shan/McVay ball emphasizing the run gane and TEs, gets us a guy who had immediate credibility given who he worked for and the personality he seems to have, AND if it all works and next year and he become the next hot HC name, Peetz will have had another yeat to fully emerse himself in the system and is in line to be our next OC.
Seems like, as on defense, we have set ourselves up for the next cycle of hires if we are successful and teams want to poach from us again. Orr is an ideal replacement for Durdy if he gets a gig next year.

Not to glaze you…but if you’re feeling this, I damn sure am too.

Damn our coach is a bad-ass

 

[LeveeBreak]

Not to glaze you…but if you’re feeling this, I damn sure am too.

Damn our coach is a bad-ass

Agree, and pretty sure JS has his paw prints all over this as well.

 

[keasley45]

Not to glaze you…but if you’re feeling this, I damn sure am too.

Damn our coach is a bad-ass

The only caveat is that he hasnt called plays. But its not like they had a bunch of great options of guys who had. Art Smith is ok, buy a known commodity who brings as much baggage as he does promise.
Fleury HAD to impress in his interview and likely specifically gave them some comfort when answering questions about scheme or how he would build an attack and adjust to various defensive strategies in-game.
We wont know until the bullets start flying, but he had to be knowledgable enough for John and Mike to bring him in.

He also knows Sam...

 

[keasley45]

Agree, and pretty sure JS also has his paw prints all over this as well.

100%. It all probably came to him wednesday in a moment when he glanced cross-eyed into his red Solo cup and saw all of the answers in the bubbles

 

[GemCity]

The only caveat is that he hasnt called plays. But its not like they had a bunch of great options of guys who had. Art Smith is ok, buy a known commodity who brings as much baggage as he does promise.
Fleury HAD to impress in his interview and likely specifically gave them some comfort when answering questions about scheme or how he would build an attack and adjust to various defensive strategies in-game.
We wont know until the bullets start flying, but he had to be knowledgable enough for John and Mike to bring him in.

He also knows Sam...

That was my biggest concern…not having previous experience calling plays. He has tons of experience on both sides of the ball other than that.

Agree 100%. We had “in-house” guys going up for the position. Fleury had to had absolutely impressed MM and JS for them to announce this hire in the timeframe that they did.

We’ve got to add to this…anyone surprised our GM and HC are right back to work and making moves already? Holee smokes…

While I’m sitting here sympathizing with my Bengals friends about Taylor returning . Lmao…

Life is good my fellow netizens. Life….is…damn…good.

 

[Ruminator]

Seahawks get their Ben Johnson after all. In a way. Like Fleury, Ben also became an OC after years as a TE coach and quality control coach.

 

[GemCity]

Man…more excited than when we got Kubiak. Not taking anything away from him…he had New Orleans smoking on O the year before (prior to all their injuries). But, I was skeptical nonetheless.

And let’s be honest…Kubiak did some crazy shit earlier in the season. Enough to where I was doubting he could maximize our efforts due to misalignment. That changed after a few games…I feel like that change was MM putting his foot down…in a good way ofc.

Mad respect for Kubiak. I hope he does well. But, the central cog of this whole damn thing is MM. Obviously, with JS’ support.

MM didn’t pick Grubb…he was new to the staff as well. Straight to business the next season and here he is doing it again.

I know I sound giddy. But, I’m feeling incredibly LUCKY we have MM. It feels like a dynasty in the making. My homerism is about to break the net so…I’ll get off my knees now but hot diggity damn we love our coach.

JSN is right. Big Cats right too. We’re running it back.

 

[HawkRiderFan]

This is a good insight

The relationship with Darnold makes sense. He may not have called plays before but hopefully he's picked up a thing or two observing how Shanahan does it.

 

[Jazzhawk]

https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/2023153764656628132

I’m not as much concerned because He comes from TE coach background, but per his bio, he’s never called plays before. That concerns me a LOT.

 

[hox]

He was SF run game coordinator and what did SF do very well, run. Except against us. Haha

 

[GemCity]

I’m not as much concerned because He comes from TE coach background, but per his bio, he’s never called plays before. That concerns me a LOT.

A good reason to be concerned. But, consider the other candidates (in-house) and consider how fast this happened.

Dude aced the quiz. JS and MM gave him a perfect 100%….with extra credit.

When you look at it like that, you just know he tore that shit up.

Agreed?

 

[glenwo2]

Just watched a couple of interviews with him.

My first impression (that doesn’t mean a gotdamn thing) is that he’s a smart cookie.

Kittle saying ‘sad’ makes me grin.

Man…we’re talking JS and MM here. There have been a lot of ‘firsts’ in recent years. We’re MMs first HC spot (and hopefully last). ADs first go at DC…albeit, a reduced version.

We saw what a proven OC (Kubiak) could do vs a first timer and guy way out of his league (Grubb).

But…my glass is half full again. I’ve never felt so confident in a coaching staff and FO.

If he impressed MM, then this man is the guy for the job.

 

[glenwo2]

The relationship with Darnold makes sense. He may not have called plays before but hopefully he's picked up a thing or two observing how Shanahan does it.

Another underrated fact is that he was there when Eric Saubert was there.

 

[SocialParasite]

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Meh. That doesn't really deter me. CMac still had a solid season. And I think Seattle has a better OL and room of RB's. Plus, I don't put much stock into how Grant Cohn feels about this. MM will see to it that they run the ball at an appropriate percentage, and they do it effectively, or changes will be made.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

What’s there to learn as OC? Pass to JSN and hand it off to K9. You have two plays with 5 letters.

9 is a letter? Noice!

 

[SocialParasite]

9 is a letter? Noice!