The Seahawks have made a slew of reported changes to Pete Carroll’s staff since the end of the 2021 season. Most of those moves have come on defense, where a fundamental shift is taking place. In an effort to field a more “attack-minded” unit, Carroll has picked some choice fruit from the Vic Fangio coaching tree.
Defensive line coach Clint Hurtt is being promoted to defensive coordinator – he was on Fangio’s staff in Chicago as the outside linebackers coach between 2015-2016. Carroll also tried to recruit former Broncos defensive coordinator Ed Donatell – who was Fangio’s DC the last three seasons – but he was hired by the Vikings to be their coordinator before the Seahawks made it official.
The guy that Carroll appeared to want most based on the beat reporting was Sean Desai, who’s spent the last nine seasons with the Bears – including Fangio’s four years as defensive coordinator (2015-2018). This season Desai took over that position and did fine work despite missing Khalil Mack for 10 games. Yesterday, Pete finally got him. According to Ian Rapoport at NFL Network, the team is hiring Desai to be their defensive associate head coach.
