There aren’t a lot of similarities in the backgrounds of Aden Durde, Ryan Grubb and Jay Harbaugh, who this week were named the new defensive, offensive and special teams coordinators of the Seahawks.
One new coordinator, Harbaugh, comes from impressive coaching pedigree, the grandson of college coaching legend Jack Harbaugh, son of current Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh, and nephew of Ravens coach John Harbaugh; another, Grubb, also briefly followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, but as a hog farmer in Iowa before he broke into coaching full-time; while another, Durde, is from London and who fell in love with American football when he happened to catch it on TV, and who now is the first British coordinator in NFL history.
But what that trio does have in common, in addition to their impressive coaching pedigree that led to them landing these jobs on Mike Macdonald’s staff, is that they are all new to their role at the NFL level, as is the team’s head coach. And the fact that Macdonald is a first-time head coach, while Grubb, Harbaugh and Durde are all first-time coordinators in the NFL, adds some extra excitement to what they are all building together in Seattle.
“It’s exciting, right?” Durde said of all four being new in their roles. “Of course it is. That’s what it’s about. You get together and you communicate, and you think of ideas, and I think Mike is very good at creating a vision. I come in here and I really understand what we’re trying to achieve from a defensive aspect. He’s created that vision, and now it’s creating that mission mindset of like, ‘Let’s go get it. Let’s all work together to get it.’ It’s young vibrant people. We all communicate, we sit down and talk at breakfast and we go our separate ways and we see each other around the building. We’ll get to know each other more. I don’t know many people here personally, but as I go through this, I will.”
Grubb, when asked if it was an opportunity or a challenge being a first-time NFL coordinator answered, “Both, and I’m excited about that. I think it is absolutely a challenge and one that I’m really looking forward to and looking at it just like that, that it is an opportunity. And I feel like every time I’ve been given those opportunities and challenges, that brings out the best in me.”
In addition to a common goal to grow together in Seattle, here are seven things we learned from Durde, Grubb and Harbaugh’s press conferences on Thursday:
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