During Mike Macdonald’s first season as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, the offense was putrid under the direction of Ryan Grubb, with the team finishing 18th in the NFL in points per game.
The firing of Grubb immediately after the season, and the subsequent hiring of Klint Kubiak brought quite a change to the offense, both in terms of how it looked and in how it performed. Most importantly, the results were markedly different, and Seattle finished the season as the third highest scoring team
in the NFL, behind only the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots.
As the Seahawks prepare to face off against the Patriots in Super Bowl LX, one of the topics for which there has been no shortage of discussion is whether or not Kubiak would land a head coaching gig elsewhere after just a single season at the helm of the Seattle offense.
Obviously, coaches can’t formally agree to a contract with a new team until their season is over because that would be tampering, but after meeting with Las Vegas Raiders over the weekend, several insiders reported that Kubiak and Las Vegas “intend to try to work out a deal”.
Of course, nothing is official until it’s officially official, except that during an interview on The Insiders on the NFL Network, John Schneider let it slip that Kubiak is indeed slated to leave.
For those who don’t want to sit through the entire nine-minute interview, it’s at the 6:10 mark while discussing Mike Macdonald that Schneider confirms Kubiak is on his way out the door.
Which should all but wrap up any debate or discussion about potential doubts on where Kubiak will be coaching in 2026 and beyond. The “and beyond” portion of that statement could be attractive to Kubiak, whose move to Las Vegas will be his ninth move since starting his coaching career in 2010, including having coached for five different NFL franchises over the past five seasons.
- 2021: Offensive Coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings
- 2022: Passing Game Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach for the Denver Broncos
- 2023: Passing Game Coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers
- 2024: Offensive Coordinator for the New Orleans Saints
- 2025: Offensive Coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks
For those counting at home, that’s five different cities in five different states across three different time zones over the past five seasons, so a long-term contract, even with a franchise as dysfunctional as the Raiders, is likely attractive.
In any case, it’s unofficially official and informally confirmed by John Schneider, meaning that as soon as the Super Bowl is over, Seattle will officially need to fill the shoes of Kubiak and any coaches he takes with him to the Raiders, while it’s all but certain the team will be unofficially kicking the tires on potential offensive coordinators this week.
