Who are the initial coach interview requests reported by the Seahawks?
The Seattle Seahawks’ search for Pete Carroll’s replacement as head coach has seen some movement.
The Seahawks have asked to speak with three different assistant coaches from other teams in the league, according to social media posts from NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero and ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday afternoon.
This is not surprising, as Pelissero pointed out. Quinn was Carroll’s defensive coordinator when the Seahawks made back-to-back Super Bowls a decade ago, and he reached another as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, a role he held from 2015-20.
In his three seasons with the Cowboys, the 53-year-old Quinn has guided three consecutive top-10 scoring defenses, including two finishes in the top five the previous two seasons. In 2021, he was named NFL Assistant Coach of the Year.
Quinn’s cause is aided by the fact that many NFL coaches have experienced success following a hiatus between their initial and subsequent head coaching opportunities. Dallas’ humiliating 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday in the playoff wild card round isn’t helping his cause.
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The last two of Smith’s twenty years as a coach were spent as Miami’s offensive coordinator. Smith is forty-two years old. For the first time in twenty-five years, the Dolphins offense ranked in the top ten during his rookie campaign.
After beginning his coaching career in college, Smith spent two years as an assistant at Miami (Ohio) and three years as an assistant at Butler, where he eventually got his first opportunity to be an O
Before the current season, the 43-year-old Evero worked as defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars after doing so for the Broncos the previous season.
Evero has coached for 17 years, with 15 of those years spent in the NFL.
Evero was a member of the 2018 team that qualified for the Super Bowl and the 2021 team that won it, having worked for Sean McVay as secondary coach/pass game coordinator (2021) and safeties coach (2017–20) for the Los Angeles Rams before moving to Denver.
