Seahawks fire OC Ryan Grubb after one season

The Seattle Seahawks have fired offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb after one season, coach Mike Macdonald confirmed on his Seattle Sports activities 710-AM radio present Monday.

Macdonald stated the Seahawks made the choice Monday morning. It comes a day after the Seahawks completed 10-7 and missed the playoffs in his first season, and after hypothesis had been mounting that Grubb’s job was not protected.

“It is actually so simple as simply I felt just like the course our offense was gong was totally different than the imaginative and prescient that I had for our workforce, and it felt prefer it was only a crucial choice at this level,” Macdonald stated. “Ryan’s a heck of a soccer coach. We did some actually nice issues on offense this 12 months. Geno [Smith] I feel had a bunch of profession highs throwing the ball, and we did some actually cool scenario stuff. I do know [Jaxon Smith-Njigba] had a terrific 12 months.

“So, we did a whole lot of nice issues. It is simply my imaginative and prescient for our offense, I feel … simply in the end was totally different than I believed Ryan thought it was going. So, we respect the heck out of him, want him the most effective. These are robust choices to make. These are actually robust choices to make, however the workforce comes first and simply felt prefer it was greatest for the workforce.”

Macdonald stated the seek for Grubb’s substitute will start instantly. Amongst potential in-house choices, passing sport coordinator Jake Peetz is essentially the most skilled member of the Seahawks’ offensive employees.

“We’ll open it up,” Macdonald stated. “We’ll do our analysis and be thorough with it. We need to be environment friendly. We need to transfer rapidly, however we need to be sensible as nicely. Simply searching for proper match on the kind of person who’s going to come back in and lead our offense. Not that we weren’t aligned with Ryan, however positively searching for alignment and a shared imaginative and prescient for the way we need to function.”

The Seahawks ranked twenty first in offensive scoring (20.0 factors per sport), 14th in complete offense (332.2) and eighth in passing yards (236.5). However the run sport Macdonald wished to depend on as a defensive-minded head coach was a relentless wrestle, with Seattle ending twenty eighth in dashing (95.7) and seventeenth in yards per carry (4.2).

Grubb had by no means coached within the NFL till the Seahawks employed him in February, bringing the OC and offensive line coach Scott Huff again to Seattle after that they had adopted Kalen DeBoer from Washington to Alabama.

Huff’s standing is unclear, with Macdonald saying, “it is nonetheless in consideration.”

Quarterback Geno Smith, a robust Grubb supporter, talked about that truth whereas giving a glowing endorsement of his playcaller after Seattle closed out the season Sunday with a 30-25 win over the Los Angeles Rams.

“I feel Grubb is a superb, wonderful coordinator,” he stated. “Even higher man. Our first 12 months, clearly there was some ups and downs, there was some issues we will enhance on. We’ll work laborious to get these issues fastened, however I imagine on this system. I imagine this can be a actually good system and it may be actually good for a very long time.

“I feel Grubb has precisely what it takes to be a terrific coordinator on this league, and it is his first 12 months; you have to give the man some grace. He is figuring issues out too. I believed he did an impressive job main the group. I like the fervour that he brings to the sport, and he made me a greater quarterback.”