"Start with Mike Macdonald, because what's at stake for the Seahawks' head coach goes well beyond a Lombardi Trophy. If Seattle wins Sunday, Macdonald would become the first head coach in the Super Bowl era to serve as the primary defensive play caller for a championship team. Not just a defensive-minded head coach. Not a former coordinator overseeing things from a distance. Actively calling the defense himself, snap after snap, on the sport's biggest stage."
"That distinction matters. Plenty of defensive head coaches have won Super Bowls, but almost all eventually handed play-calling duties to trusted coordinators as responsibilities piled up. Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll, Tony Dungy, Mike Tomlin - the list is long, and the pattern is consistent. Even when the defense was their calling card, delegation became a necessity. The modern NFL has nudged head coaches toward macro management. Macdonald is challenging that trend head-on."
Mike Macdonald is the Seattle Seahawks head coach who actively calls defensive plays himself. He would become the first head coach in the Super Bowl era to serve as primary defensive play caller for a championship team if Seattle wins. Macdonald engineered the NFL's top scoring defense in his second season with the Seahawks, the franchise's first scoring title since the Legion of Boom era. He previously coordinated the NFL's top scoring defense with the Baltimore Ravens in 2023. Macdonald has four seasons as an NFL play caller and two No. 1 scoring defenses. He is challenging the modern trend of head coaches delegating play-calling.
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