We are through only two games of this 2024 NFL season, but fans of the Seattle Seahawks have certainly got to be happy with what they have seen from their rookie head coach. Despite being the youngest head coach in the league, Macdonald has his Hawks winning tough games, successfully mixing defensive coverages, and flying to a 2-0 start. Under Macdonald, Seattle is perched alone in first place atop the NFC West.
While starting a season 2-0 is a great beginning for any coach or team, regardless of circumstances, Macdonald’s 2-0 record is a little more special in the context of Seattle sports history. With his 23-20 overtime victory against the New England Patriots, Boston-born Mike Macdonald became the first man to guide the Seahawks to a 2-0 record in his first season as head coach of the organization.
It certainly was not easy to get to 2-0 for Seattle, and the Hawks hardly look like a completed work of art. But as I’ve always said, style points do not matter in the NFL. The only thing that counts in the end are wins.
Now, technically speaking, Mike McCormack did win his first two games as interim head coach during the 1982 season. However, McCormack started his Seattle career in March of that year as the Director of Football Operations, and only took on the interim position after Jack Patera (the Seahawks’ first head coach) was fired after an 0-2 start. In the following season of 1983, McCormack transitioned into becoming Seattle’s general manager. It was a position he held until 1988.
But as for the nine men who were hired by the Seahawks to begin a season as their head coach, Mike Macdonald stands alone as the only to start 2-0.
