Brian Fleury is getting his first chance to be an NFL offensive coordinator this season, but he isn’t planning to make radical changes to the Seahawks offense.
Fleury worked for the 49ers in 2025, so he got a chance to see the offense that Klint Kubiak built for the Super Bowl champs up close three times. Fleury and Kubiak also worked together with the 49ers in 2023, which gives them some common ground in how they see offensive football.
During a Thursday press conference, Fleury said that those things have made him want to keep a lot of what’s already installed in place while putting his own tweaks in to keep the offense moving forward.
“I do think one of the advantages of taking this job is there is going to be a lot of continuity,” Fleury said, via the team’s website. “I’ve already started to dive into everything Klint was doing last year, and the goal would be to maintain as much of that as possible. There’s also areas where we can supplement that and things that we’ve developed and done in San Francisco under Kyle that Klint wasn’t there for or maybe didn’t implement as much. So that’s going to be the goal, is to keep as much as we can the same, but I think there’s definitely areas where we can grow some different ways. We can challenge the players that they should be looking forward to when they get back too.”
Fleury said there are “not many things to fix” about the unit that he’s inheriting from Kubiak and his time with the 49ers means that he’s already worked with quarterback Sam Darnold. That should be another plus for keeping what’s worked in place as Seattle tries to repeat the success they had during the 2025 season.
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Plenty of items have emerged in recent weeks about the value of the Seattle Seahawks. We’ve seen $6.7 billion. We’ve seen $6.59 billion.
What are they truly worth? We’re about to find out, in the most reliable way possible.
The Seahawks are worth what someone will pay for the team.
The value of NFL franchises constantly increases. The revenue they generate is always increasing. In 2022, the Broncos sold for a new record of $4.65 billion. In 2023, the Commanders sold for a new record of $6.05 billion. Last year, the 49ers sold a six-percent non-voting sliver of the team at a record valuation of $8.5 billion. After that, the Giants did a sale for a minority stake in the team at a $10 billion valuation.
The Paul Allen Trust has put a “for sale” sign on 100 percent of the Seahawks’ equity.
Controlling interests in NFL franchises don’t go on the market often. The defending Super Bowl champions are.
Book valuations won’t matter. External assessments won’t matter. The highest bidder will get the team.
Folks in the know expect the number to land between $9 billion and $11 billion. It’ll be surprising if it’s under $9 billion. It won’t be surprising at all if it exceeds $10 billion.
What will someone pay for it?
It’s a rare asset, one that always appreciates. It generates massive revenue solely from the money that comes from the league-wide TV deals, which are shared equally by all 32 teams. That’s without ticket sales and all of the other revenue streams.
Someone with a giant pile of money — possibly a currently anonymous multibillionaire — will show up with a huge bag of cash and buy the thing.
To the extent that multiple multibillionaires want membership in Club Oligarch, the price will go up. And up. And up.
It’ll essentially be an auction. Do I hear eight? Do I hear nine? Do I hear ten?
We’ll eventually hear a number that will surprise many. It shouldn’t. If a piece of the Giants with no power over the team values the franchise at $10 billion, the ability to buy all of the Seahawks should match that. If not top it.
So forget about book value. The Seahawks will be sold at their street value. And the more billionaires that step out onto the sidewalk, the higher the final number will go.
The Seahawks introduced new offensive coordinator Brian Fleury on Thursday. Fleury, who was the run game coordinator and tight ends coach with the 49ers, has never served as an offensive play caller.
That fact didn’t scare head coach Mike Macdonald, who had never called plays until Michigan made him defensive coordinator in 2021.
“Going into it, I do think it’s a bit overrated,” Macdonald said, via Bob Condotta of The Seattle Times. “At some point, all play callers have to be first-time play callers. You could tell how Brian thinks about the game. Look, you’re going to have to grow into any new role, but we have a lot of great people around here and a lot of great opportunities for him to get ready to go. I’m really confident he’s going to be off and running sooner than later.’’
Fleury called defensive plays as a defensive coordinator at Sacred Heart University from 2006-08 and ran the special teams at Towson from 2009-12. He moved to the offensive side of the ball in 2020 with the 49ers, became the team’s tight ends coach in 2022 and added run game coordinator duties under Kyle Shanahan last season.
Fleury said he has “always been preparing” to call the plays.
“The thing about offensive play-calling to me is the preparation is done ahead of time,” Fleury said. “You’re thinking through the situations and putting plays in a list format of when you get to second and one inside the 30-yard line, what are you going to call? So, the preparation aspect of it I’ve already done, now it’s just a matter of analyzing the information in real time and getting to the right play call on the sheet.”
The most important thing for Macdonald was keeping Klint Kubiak’s system in place. The Seahawks ranked eighth in yards per game and passing yards per game and finished third in points scored per game (28.4).
Fleury said the offense will look “very similar to the one that just won the Super Bowl.”
The Seahawks’ push to a Super Bowl title was helped by a midseason trade that brought wide receiver Rashid Shaheed to Seattle from New Orleans.
Shaheed returned a punt and a kickoff for touchdowns while picking up 15 catches for 188 yards and seven carries for 64 yards while the Seahawks went 8-1 with him in the lineup in the regular season. He then opened the team’s playoff win over the 49ers with a kickoff return for a touchdown and had a key 51-yard catch early in the next round’s win over the Rams.
During an appearance on NFL Network this week, Shaheed said he’s interested in signing a new deal with the team that would extend his run in Seattle.
“Absolutely, absolutely, yeah,” Shaheed said. “Conversations are definitely going to be heating up towards March. But you know, I would love to come back. I loved my experience here, I’m loving the Pacific Northwest, and obviously the organization is second to none. I kind of want to run it back. We just won the Super Bowl, so, you know, why not?”
Running back Kenneth Walker and three cornerbacks — Coby Bryant, Josh Jobe and Riq Woolen — are among the other notable Seahawks free agents, which means the team has to pivot quickly from winning the title to trying to keep key pieces of the team together for another run in 2026.
The Raiders have made it official with Rick Dennsion.
Las Vegas announced on Thursday that the club has hired Dennison to be its offensive line coach under new head coach Klint Kubiak.
Dennison, 67, was Seattle’s run game coordinator and senior offensive advisor in 2025, winning Super Bowl LX along with Kubiak.
Dennison has a long history with the Kubiak family, having played with Gary Kubiak — Klint’s father — in Denver. Dennison also coached with the elder Kubiak with the Broncos, Ravens, Texans and Vikings and worked with Klint Kubiak in Denver, Minnesota, New Orleans and Seattle.
Dennison won Super Bowl 50 as the Broncos offensive coordinator in 2015 under Gary Kubiak.
The dip in the ratings for Super Bowl LX wasn’t as big as initially believed.
Nielsen has revised the final viewership for the Patriots-Seahawks championship game across NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+ from 124.9 million to 125.6 million. It’s an increase of 700,000 viewers.
“This update is due to the fact that a Big Data provider did not properly collect data from its devices on February 8, which impacted the Big Data + Panel count,” Nielsen said in a press release.
Super Bowl LIX averaged 127.7 million. That number didn’t include Nielsen’s new metric for measuring out-of-home viewership.
It’s still the second-biggest audience in U.S. TV history. The top 12 are Super Bowls; the final episode of M*A*S*H is the only top-20 show of all time that isn’t a Super Bowl.
The Seahawks’ continued reshaping of their offensive coaching staff includes a promotion for a returning member of the group.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that the Seahawks are promoting Justin Outten to run game coordinator. Outten was an assistant offensive line coach and run game specialist during their run to the Super Bowl LX title.
The Raiders wanted to speak to Outten about the same job on Klint Kubiak’s staff recently, but the Seahawks blocked the overture from their former offensive coordinator.
Outten spent two seasons with the Titans and a year as the Broncos’ offensive coordinator before joining Mike Macdonald’s staff in Seattle last year. He has also coached for the Packers and Falcons.
As expected, the Seahawks are for sale.
Despite recent denials, the inevitable is happening. Owner Paul Allen died in October 2018. He left an express directive that the team will be sold, with the proceeds going to charity. After more than seven years, the league leaned on his sister, Jody, to get it done.
The timing is no surprise. We’ve previously reported that the league held a $5 million fine in abeyance with the understanding that the team would promptly be put on the market after Super Bowl LX.
The goal will be to sell the team to the highest bidder, in order to maximize the charitable contribution. The price tag, despite valuations in the range of $6 billion to $7 billion, is expected to land in the range of $9 billion to $11 billion.
The Seahawks organization, along with the team’s fans, will be stuck with whoever the high bidder may be.
It’s currently not known who it will be, or what that person will choose to do once they acquire full control over the franchise. It will be the next owner’s prerogative to make changes, or not. To meddle, or not. To screw up a good thing, or not.
And the fans will be stuck. Owners can’t be fired. The fans can only hope the team lands in the hands of someone who will allow G.M. John Schneider to keep doing what he’s been doing.
But no one other than the next owner will have any control over the situation. The next owner could be closer to Dan Snyder than any of the various good owners. (If we name one as an example, the ones not named won’t be happy.)
The only thing that will matter is the money. As often is the case.
Either way, the Seahawks will soon be meeting a new boss. They can only hope it’s roughly the same as the old boss.
The Seahawks are officially for sale.
A statement from the team released today said that the estate of the late former owner Paul Allen will sell the team and donate the proceeds to charity, as had been his wish.
“The Estate of Paul G. Allen today announced it has commenced a formal sale process for the Seattle Seahawks NFL franchise, consistent with Allen’s directive to eventually sell his sports holdings and direct all Estate proceeds to philanthropy,” the team said in its statement. “The Estate has selected investment bank Allen & Company and law firm Latham & Watkins to lead the sale process, which is estimated to continue through the 2026 off-season. NFL owners must then ratify a final purchase agreement.”
Allen bought the team in 1997, and when he died in 2018 his sister Jody Allen took control of the franchise. Now the Seahawks will have a new owner, one who is expected to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 billion.
The Seahawks, if you haven’t heard, won Super Bowl LX. One of the questions to be resolved in the coming weeks is whether they’ll make the annual visit to the White House to commemorate the achievement.
There’s speculation they won’t. Per the team, nothing has been offered or decided yet.
In situations like this, anything other than “yes” can fairly be interpreted as “maybe not.”
It used to be a no-brainer for the Super Bowl champion to make the trip. In recent years, that has changed. (At a time when Americans disagree on many things, that’s an undeniable fact.)
Last year, the Eagles made the visit to the White House. Whether the Seahawks do the same thing remains to be seen.
And while an invitation is a prerequisite to acceptance, it’s possible an invitation will not be extended if the White House believes it won’t be embraced.
