What Klint Kubiak Brings to the Seahawks

This is a phenomenal hire for the Seahawks. The Klint Kubiak scheme is a perfect fit for Mike Macdonald's defense, Geno Smith and many of the offensive skill players. Since the first round of interviews, he has been my top choice. In today's episode, we dive into why.
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[@vincew3923]

At least in 2025 we will have an experienced nfl oc with a deep playbook. Something we haven’t had since schotty. Excited to see what kubiak can do.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

100%. Grubb and Waldron both felt in a bit over their heads and Kubiak will not be that. Experienced and know what he’s doing for sure.

[@ZacTiessen]

K9 will definitely benefit from an outside scheme with his quickness...frustrating seeing countless HB dives get blown up the past 2 seasons to not utilize his skills properly. Now they just need the tools and buy in to execute this style, time will tell.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I totally agree. At least on outside zone K9 will have a chance to make guys miss!

[@jimcampbell4410]

Exactly that's why he was injured running into brick walls after a while it starts to hurt !

[@zachooo45]

Wow this video got me so excited for our offense next year. Appreciate you making this!

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I’m glad you enjoyed!

[@daltonv5206]

Kubiak was, in fact, their top choice

[@FeelItRising]

yeah, that was a weird thing to start with

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I agree and once the news started coming out that he clearly was the first choice, I wished I had a different intro. I'll be more careful about trusting rumors like that in the future!

[@ilonakiforishin1273]

I’m excited about Klint Kubiak Go Hawks 😃💙💚💙💚💙💚

[@jacobmcmanus1244]

Great video! What I love about his as well is that he makes everything look the same. He makes a right side counter look like a left side counter, which sets up the play action. Love the potential here.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Totally. The attention to detail is just miles ahead of what Ryan Grubb was doing and that’s a big reason why play action was so much better for the Saints.

[@BiggoSuave]

Do draft prospect break downs, this channel will blow up, great breakdown

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Thank you! I have prospect profiles going up over on my patreon but won’t be able to put them up on KZbin. College football has been really aggressive about taking down All-22 videos. I wish I could share them here but right now that’s where they stand unfortunately.

[@carterwarren796]

I’m not a Hawks fan but I love Klint and I really think he’s going to have a lot of fun with the talent you all have

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Great to hear!

[@jackiehong139]

Great overview of Kubiak system

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Thank you!

[@desh91896]

Great explanations. Helped me understand how the outside zone softens everything in the middle, from pocket to deeper routes. I've been looking for someone to give better breakdowns and willing to critique. Would love to see some draft perspectives about possible concepts JS might take to build thru draft.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

More draft content is absolutely coming! Especially once we get through free agency I’ll make a video on the draft plan for sure.

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

Great analysis. Coming from someone who watched all 17 Saints games this season.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Thank you! (and also my condolences, the Saints were sometimes tough to watch). Best of luck to you all next year with your new coach though!

[@SeahawksForeverDanViens]

VERY good video! Great work!

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Thank you!! I love your work as well!

[@jahinterludes]

You just made me so excited

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Im glad! Its an exciting hire. The hawks won 10 games last year and this move already makes them much better.

[@trevor2133]

damn, I can't believe I am seeing a video using the I formation in 2025. Welp, if anything Kubiak will reintroduce the run game to Seattle, which has been sorely lacking.

[@nokyo4394]

That full back position im willing to bet will be Brady Russel, and I think knlints gonna like him

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Yeah that’s a good idea. I could totally see that.

[@lazyeyemcfly2067]

After watching Your video which was really good the only question I have is how many offensive coordinators has our quarterback have since Russell Wilson left?

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I get where you’re coming from, the Seahawks have been cycling through offensive coordinators, but I think this hire is different. Waldron and Grubb were young and unproven and the floor was much lower than I think most hawks fans thought. But Kubiak has done this before. He’s worked with some of the best offensive minds in the game and he’s been an offensive coordinator twice. I think his floor is higher than what Waldron or Grubb brought so that’s why I think this one is different than previous hires.

[@lazyeyemcfly2067]

@The_Legion_of_12s I love my seahawks to death I really wish them the best. But the hunger there is no foundation there's no identity We had 2 defensive players of the week then the Third game didn't see anybody I want to see him do good so bad You see what happened in Houston they went to the playoffs twice You see what happened in Washington I don't think I'm asking for too much I just know that the 3 games we won If it was later in the season we probably would have lost but the 3 games we lost we absolutely should have won I can't wait till next year🤣🤣🤣

[@darrellwoodson7904]

@@lazyeyemcfly2067we have an identity. It’s the new coach and he’s from a hard nose background! He just gotta get the right staff and players on the roster to fulfill that. Mike Mac has a clear vision of what he wants that’s why he was hired and he been through 2 hard nose organizations both Univ of Michigan and Baltimore Ravens

[@lazyeyemcfly2067]

@darrellwoodson7904 I really hope so bro because the team we put out there the last 3 years The effort and Hard work looked exactly the same this year except the 2 times those 2 weeks we won defensive player of the week and on that third week we laid a complete egg

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

Tell it to Big Mac! 😂

[@GavinClarke-b8j]

Any Wide Receivers you like to potentially replace Lockett? I like Williams from TCU and Noel from Iowa State? Just curious what you are thinking we do

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

That's a really fun question! I haven't done as much work on the wide receiver class as I would like to answer this but I've liked what I've seen of Xavier Restrepo (very similar Tyler Lockett mold). I will say I'm curious how many 3 wide receiver looks the hawks are going to be in. The Saints ranked 31st in 3 receiver personnel groupings last year while the hawks ranked 3rd. If Kubiak really does want to use more 2 tight end sets (the Saints led the league in them last year) than I think the hawks might focus more on tight end and just have Jake Bobo be the WR3.

[@FinsUpForTua]

Jake Bobo but he could be moved to tight end

[@chrissnape9537]

K9, Charbonett and Kenny Macintosh can all do well in this system. Kenny Mac should be returning punts. Maybe he doesnt catch the punts well. I can see no other reason he wouldn't be our punt returner

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Kenny Mac as the punt returner makes a ton of sense. That’s definitely a spot the hawks have to figure out before next year.

[@bionicgiraffe94]

anyone that makes Derek Carr look competent has got some talent

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

So true. When Carr was healthy, that offense was pretty functional despite the poor offensive line and mediocre skill group.

[@kieronmckay4276]

I’m not excited to see this same line running outside zone predictably over and over, but anything he can bring to help this run game beyond that is more than welcome. If I may respond to your final point, being innovative and adapting a system to be “yours” as an OC is an added bonus, not the requirement. What we need from the guy is the ability to keep the team on schedule, and consistently executing, particularly early in games when we haven’t scored a first drive TD in over a year and regularly fall behind and only play one decent half of football on average. I need more full games from players, and more complete games from the OC, where you can feel there is a plan of attack not just a system, with thoughtful attention to matchups and gaining mismatches . The best OCs even if they aren’t “innovative” which at best is eeeeextremely rare, can get your best guys on their worst guys, and can you keep the defense on their heels and guessing. Ideally you want to be even able to execute when the defense knows exactly what’s coming, but you saw with the Bills this last playoff game, when you’re obvious in exactly what you’re going to do, a good defense will adapt to stop that. Keeping defenses guessing regardless and not sure what’s coming next is without any doubt the biggest requirement of any OC and the identifier you look for in great candidates. If you can run your dads or friends playbook and keep defenses guessing why wouldn’t you? It just remains to be seen, CAN HE…imo inexperienced OC who hasn’t seen much success is the definition of a Seahawk hire in the past many seasons so, here’s hoping he bucks the trend of being fired by us and then fired again before being run out of the league. Like to me it’s a nepo hire with a name…great. Prove to me you belong, and don’t immediately go try to be a head coach the moment you see the slightest succes. …not to hate just my honest thoughts.

[@dylannovotny8010]

if KK wants another Hill I could see them drafting the TE out of PEnn state who played TE RB WR and Qb

[@scotranney8456]

"The first thing I picture with a Shanahan offense is..." a tall QB.

[@FeelItRising]

Never thought about Bobo at FB. He could be a Hill and Juszczyk mix. He is light in the britches though. Perhaps he has packed on weight.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Yeah. Bobos listed at 204 and he’d probably have to get up to 215 or so. But when I was watching Taysom Hill block, I was reminded of Bobo. They block the same way with a ton of passion and more drive than their frame would suggest. Not saying it’s for sure going to happen but it could be interesting…

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

@@The_Legion_of_12s Isn’t Charb the obvious choice? I'd like to see Metcalf used that way as well

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Charb could be a decent blocker there for sure. The downside is if you come out with two running backs on the field, that's a lot more obvious of a formation than if you came out with a receiver or tight end who you use as a fullback. The Saints routinely came in with a couple tight ends and a running back and then just went into empty and spread the defense out. With two running backs who don't really run true routes that wouldn't make much sense. DK would be interesting for sure. I think the hawks would probably say that's not worth it due to the injury risk but it would be fun for him to line up there a couple of times.

[@gilberttom2250]

sounds like klint couldnt get away from his til this year ,is that why they used rookie oc til we got our man

[@chrissnape9537]

Hopefully the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree. His Dad ran this system welo before Shanahan Jr

[@SuperMurray2009]

Immediately when i heard that Kubiak was hired by the Seahawks my immediate reaction is that they are gonna win 11 games this year. But two things concern me... 1. Klint Kubiak fell off heavily after the first two saints games. 2. Your GM really neglects picking good olineman in the draft.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I’m assuming you’re a Saints fan? If so it’s great to have you here! Thanks for the insight. I totally agree with both of your concerns. Hawks fans can hope that the fall off was just injuries and that John Schneider finally spends money or drafts a top guard but we’ll see. I’m curious what you thought of the offensive line last year. The injuries hit hard there but as an outsider id say it overperformed. Is that accurate?

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

@@The_Legion_of_12s As I mentioned elsewhere, I watched the Saints games this session, and I agree with your take. I was sad to see Kubiak leave, but it's a consequence of firing Allen. Hopefully, we get someone else who's innovative, like Moore.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Yeah Kellan Moore would be a great fit! As long as the Saints give him a long enough run way to build the team the way that he wants that hire would be really solid.

[@SuperMurray2009]

@@The_Legion_of_12s Oh GAWD no. I would never support a god awful franchise like the Saints. Especially considering all they are one of the most kids teams in the nFl and Mickey Loomis is one of the worst GMs in the league who doesn't like trading players. And you're talking about someone who had Trent Baalke as his GM(Jags fan). Nah never New Orleans

[@spiritofdetroitpodcast]

definetly want to catch up with you about somethings editing wise film wise. . . if you can, im still on twitter.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Yeah I’d love to! Message me on twitter and we can set something up! (Thanks for the Caddy’s cutups recommendation btw!)

[@spiritofdetroitpodcast]

@ no problem u deserve that ur talented and your giving the Seattle fan base real content and context . I respect content creators that are actually feeding there audience real information and being informative

[@spiritofdetroitpodcast]

@@The_Legion_of_12s can’t seem to message u directly left my email under a tweet

[@blueskeleton7744]

Can't wait to see in the new season what he has in store for us 12s.. some of our troubles are in the office too.. get rid of John Schneider. A thorn in our side, tick in the skin, sharp peanut in the turd, papercut and Ben gay rubbing in the eyes.. nobody has a clue why all this turmoil happened under his watch... Teflon John has got to go

[@proft.mcstine8245]

Saints fan here, his issue and concern is he doesn’t make in game adjustments once he goes against a decent defense his scheme falls short But again we have that sorry sob Carr, so Seattle may do better

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

Great to hear from Saints fans! I actually do agree. Once the Saints got off script, a lot fell apart. But I think Geno is much better than Carr and the hawks have better weapons so we’ll see if they can be better when off script. Thanks for commenting and I hope you guys find a good head coach soon! Are you pulling for Kellan Moore or someone else?

[@proft.mcstine8245]

@ yeah geno is much better then sorry wasted of a excuse qb Carr, we are about to 2-3 year from being a contender again and that’s if we hit on the next two drafts but sure Moore should be good for us as long as he lets Carr go dude will cripple any team any where he goes and we tired of his crap in New Orleans

[@TheExaltedSeahawk]

The Saints had massive key injuries on the offensive side of the ball in 2024. KK had a top 5 scoring offense at the beginning of the season, and then was left with the players available he had to work with for the remainder of the season due to those injuries, he didn’t fail at all not making in-game adjustments.

[@proft.mcstine8245]

@@TheExaltedSeahawk stop it eagles put him to rest in game 3, he kept running zone sweeps an they filled the gaps he wouldn’t adjust I seen a worst injured team with Payton with 3 different qbs and went 9-8, I’m not saying he’s bad, but good luck with him I think he can be good for Seattle

[@TheExaltedSeahawk]

@@proft.mcstine8245 Ok you must have watched a different team than I did lol that’s just one game, and the Eagles having one of the best defenses in the league. Looks like we agree to disagree.

[@chrissnape9537]

We need Haynes or Lumea to step up and add a free agent guard. Olu is fine

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I agree that Olu is fine but I am a little concerned about his scheme fit. I think he’s much better in a gap scheme. It Grubb was still here, I think it’d be almost a lock that he’ll start but now I’d say it’s about 50/50. For the interior 3 positions, I think you sign 1 starter, draft another and let someone step up for the other.

[@andrelockridge9109]

Prefer 12 personnel as a base formation, not a fan of fullbacks in this day and age. Two tightend formations I believe is more versatile.

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

I probably should’ve clarified but the Saints did play the most from 12 personnel (they led the league in that grouping) They’d just use a tight end (usually Taysom Hill) as the full back. So I do think the hawks might be looking for a blocking tight end to move to more of a fullback role because of the versatility.

[@andrelockridge9109]

I've always had a thing for tight ends & 12 personnel. When Mike Holmgren was still cr coaching the Packers he had Keith Jackson & Mark Chmura. And he would play 12 with them at times very effectively. Of course the Pats under Belichick Had Gronk and Hernandez.

[@chrissnape9537]

Haynes has only played one season and Hawks coaches couldnt teach it seems

[@FinsUpForTua]

Haynes might be a bust and the coaches made him. Kubiak MUST fix him fast before it's too late, you already ruined his confidence by doing nothing to teach him the right things and started Bumford over Haynes because you didn't develop him properly, and even the good people like Cross were regressing

[@LZ21-]

He’s also influenced by stefanski

[@The_Legion_of_12s]

For sure. Not as much as Kyle or his dad but I do see a lot of Stefanski in Kubiak