3 takeaways from Seahawks 'Bootleg' podcast
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Bootleg Football is a podcast hosted by Brett Kollmann and E.J. Snyder. Every summer they dedicate one episode each to all 32 teams and this week was the Seahawks turn:
If you don’t have 90 minutes, here are three takeaways from the show:
1. Ryan Grubb: FIB
One thing that Brett and E.J. didn’t seem to realize is that John Schneider, not Mike Macdonald, picked the coaching staff. That’s fine for them not to know that, it’s not what we’ve come to expect from how most coaching staffs are built by the head coach, but I do think it’s important for us to understand that even if Macdonald had the second-highest amount of influence (hiring Jay Harbaugh as special teams coordinator, for example) that Ryan Grubb and Aden Durde were hired by “the team” more so than by the head coach.
Then it becomes easy to understand why Seattle hired the offensive coordinator who has been dominating college football from the same hub as the Seahawks over the past two years.
“Brett: From a philisophical perspective, I’m not sure how (Grubb’s UW offense) is going to translate. Not saying it won’t. And that’s primarily because of how wide hashes are in college, like they were able to kind of do some really wacky stuff. In particular, they were known for being a really FIB heavy team. FIB, for those who don’t know, means Formation Into Boundary. So putting the majority of their receivers, let’s say you’re lined up on the left hash and there’s a short side of the field (to the left) and the wide side of the field (to the right), which coaches call the field side. So they put one receiver to the field side and three into the boundary. Formation into boundary.