He wasn’t supposed to look this comfortable this quickly. Mike Macdonald , 38, walked into Seattle as the NFL’s youngest head coach when he took over for Pete Carroll in January 2024. The resume didn’t scream savior, but youth has a way of turning heads. And by the time the dust settled on his first season, Macdonald had given the Seahawks something they hadn’t felt in years. A jolt of relevance!

The 2024 record says 10–7. That’s second place in the NFC West, just outside the playoff picture. Respectable but painful too, as they missed out on a playoff spot. The kind of year where you prove you belong, but still end up watching January football from the couch. It was steady growth disguised as disappointment. And for Seattle, a city still shaking the shadow of Carroll’s decade-lon

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