What Brock noticed schematically from Seahawks’ offense at camp

As the Seattle Seahawks aim to become just the third repeat Super Bowl champion this century, they enter 2026 with mostly the same cast that raised the Lombardi Trophy this past February.

Seahawks’ Macdonald: New OC Fleury brings his own twist

One of the few big differences is new offensive coordinator Brian Fleury, who takes over Seattle’s offense after Klint Kubiak departed to become Las Vegas Raiders head coach.

Fleury hails from the same Shanahan coaching tree as Kubiak, which means the Seahawks will employ a similar West Coast system to the one they ran last season. However, head coach Mike Macdonald has repeatedly emphasized that Fleury is adding his own twist.

What could that look like on the field? Former NFL quarterback Brock Huard got a potential glimpse while watching one of the Seahawks’ training camp practices last week.

Huard noted that he saw a lot of condensed formations, which he termed as the “anti-Air Raid” – a reference to the late former WSU Cougars coach Mike Leach’s high-flying spread offense that took football by storm in the 2000s and 2010s.

“Everything about the Air Raid and Mike Leach’s system is to spread the field 53 yards across and use every inch of it and get people out and occupy all that space,” Huard said during a Blue 88 segment on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk the following day. “And this is the antithesis of it, at least yesterday for a majority of it.

“No, we’re going to condense it. We’re going to bring it in and then we’ll explode out of it – whether that’s through motion pre-snap, whether that’s motion in-snap when the ball is being handed off, and you see so much different cross-zone and split-zone and all sorts of different plays in that manner. And then the play action off of that was successful with a nice little touchdown to Cooper Kupp.”

Huard cautioned that it was only one practice and he didn’t want to draw any sweeping conclusions. But even so, it was impossible not to see the parallels to Kyle Shanahan’s San Francisco 49ers offense – which is to be expected, given that Fleury spent the past seven seasons on Shanahan’s staff in the Bay Area.

“It definitely had a Shanahan, San Francisco vibe to it,” Huard said. “Is that every day? No. But is that one little snapshot? Yes.

“As you watched it, you could see like, gosh, that does look a lot like what San Francisco does with motions and shifts and movement every play. … It takes a lot of coordination if you’re going to do that, but it can create an awful lot of matchups in the space you’re looking for.”

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