Seahawks Mike Macdonald new youngest head coach in NFL passing Jerod Mayo and ending Sean McVays 7-year run
Seahawks Mike Macdonald new youngest head coach in NFL passing Jerod Mayo and ending Sean McVays 7-year run
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Earlier this offseason, new head coach overtook head coach Sean McVay as the youngest coach in the . Mayo is a mere 30 days younger than McVay, and his reign as the league's youngest coach Mack Hollins Jersey lasted considerably le s time than McVay's did.Mayo was named head coach on Jan. 12, 2024, and it took until just Jan. 31 until new head coach Mike Macdonald took Mayo's spot atop the list. Macdonald, 36, is about eight months younger than Mayo. He was most recently the defensive coordinator for the , who just lost in the AFC title game against the .Interestingly, Macdonald and Mayo replaced the two coaches who were previously the two oldest coaches in the . Former Seahawks coach Pete Carroll held that title for quite some time, and after he parted ways with Seattle, Bill Belichick was the oldest head coach in the league for about 24 hours until he and the Patriots parted ways.Now, instead of Seattle having the NFL's oldest coach and New England having the second-oldest, the Seahawks have the league's youngest coach and the Patriots have the second-youngest. Macdonald and Mayo are two of the eight current head coaches aged 40 or younger. CoachTeamDate of BirthAgeMike MacdonaldSeahawks6/26/8736 Jerod MayoPatriots2/23/8637Sean McVayRams1/24/8637Kevin O'Connell5/25/8538Shane Steichen5/11/85387/8/8439Zac Taylor5/10/8340Mike McDaniel3/6/8340McVay had held the mantle as the youngest coach in football for so long, that the last time he the youngest coach in the league was back in 2016, when the league's youngest Raekwon Davis Jersey coach was ... Adam Gase -- who was then in his first season with the Dolphins. He ended up getting three years in Miami and two more with the , but hasn't coached in the NFL since.Clearly, the Patriots and Seahawks are hoping for something more along the lines of McVay's track record than Gase's. And the recent results of these other young coaches are encouraging on that front: McVay has been to two Super Bowls and won one; Taylor has been to a ; Steichen and Ryans led incredible one-year turnarounds this season; McDaniel has built one of the best and most explosive offenses in the league; O'Connell has exceeded expectations in Minnesota. One difference that is worth noting between Mayo and Macdonald and many of those other young coaches, though, is that they are all offensive coaches and Mayo and Macdonald are a defensive coaches. Ryans is the only other coach on the above list whose focus is defense. Bringing offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik over with him from San Francisco and then landing in the draft played a significant role in Ryans' first-year succe s. That highlights the importance of Mayo and Macdonald's upcoming OC hires, as well as the Patriots' choices with the No. 3 overall pick in this year's draft, and of the Seahawks' upcoming decision on how to handle the future of their quarterback room with , , and potentially Xavien Howard Jersey a draft pick, trade target, or signing.
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