The Seahawks’ list of head coaching candidates continues to grow. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the team requested a head coaching interview with Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka.
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Following a successful first season in New York, Kafka emerged as a serious head coaching candidate last offseason. The coordinator garnered interviews with the Cardinals, Texans, and Colts for their head coaching jobs, but he ended up sticking with the Giants for the 2023 campaign. Thanks in part to injuries, the Giants offense ended up being one of the worst in the NFL this past season. The offense ultimately ranked 29th in yards and 30th in points scored.
That performance didn’t stop the Giants from retaining Kafka, and it hasn’t stopped HC-needy teams from pursuing the former Chiefs staffer. Kafka has already interviewed for the open head coaching position in Tennessee.
Now we can add Seattle to the list of suitors. Kafka guided Saquon Barkley to one of his most productive seasons in 2022, and it’d be interesting to see what he could do with the talented Kenneth Walker/Zach Charbonnet tandem in Seattle.
The 36-year-old coach joins four definitive candidates and one rumored candidate in Seattle:
- Ejiro Evero, defensive coordinator (Panthers): Interview requested
- Mike Macdonald, defensive coordinator (Ravens): Rumored candidate
- Raheem Morris, defensive coordinator (Rams): Interview requested
- Dan Quinn, defensive coordinator (Cowboys): Interview requested
- Frank Smith, offensive coordinator (Dolphins): Interview requested
Why??? His offense is complete garbage.
Casting a very wide net.
Giants offenses under Kafka: 17th in points in 2022, 26th in 2023. Injuries and stuff aside, how do you look at that and decide you want him running your team?
Teams are asking to interview Philly’s OC for some reason.
I hope they take him and the rest of the staff including Siriani. Clean house! Pathetic collapse with no heart the last 7 weeks of the season. Hurts better snap out of his funk too. The league is a win now league and it’s not too soon to change directions on coaches or players.
@rct Maybe Seattle owner is hoping he metaphorphose into a better HC
This is an interesting request.
Kafka had a little clout at one point. I remember hearing things about him being an up and comer.
It hasn’t really happened like that.
I was going to say the same thing as the first guy. But Daboll is supposed to the Off Genius isn’t he? The Giants are just further proof that a team needs three things to be a good offense. Good skill guys, A good QB and a Good O Line. Most good teams get the line first, then the skill guys then the QB. The Giants, Like the Bears chose to do it completely backwards and this is what you’re left with. Chaos.
What exactly is the plan here??? Why move on from Pete without a plan for who would be the next coach??? I get having a plan if your number one choice chooses a different job, and you are forced to pivot, but you don’t move on from a HOF of fame coach following a winning season with no plan, right? I mean, I hope I’m right? This seems like a FO with no plan.
Well, Seattle loves philosophers over a cup of coffee. Maybe another Kafka’s quote—By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it—resonates there
Kafka’s offense seemed to be more fans of Neitzsche this past year. All its values were baseless.
“There’s no defense against stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I take it back. The Giants’ offense must have been brilliant.
I hope he gets the job.
While I would say that New York’s offensive lethargy this past season is mostly not Kafka’s fault, I’d think that you’d certainly have to see another year of improvement to make sure that he can prove his chops. It’s only been two seasons, and while last year was better than expected, this year was much worse. We can say that it isn’t Kafka’s fault, with which I would concur, but we need to see him recover from that. All that statement does is offer him an explanation, or perhaps buy some time, but it does not stand in for actual results.
The short time frame and drop in success are the two major concerns that I would have. Even with Carroll’s experience being nearby, I think that you’d need to see more experience-good experience-before considering Kafka. This is even more true for the other interested teams.
Seattle wants Kafka? There are 49,000 Met Life Stadium season ticket holders ready to drive him to Newark Airport with a one way ticket to Seattle.