After a lot of offseason film study and conversations with NFL coaches and scouts, this is a quick look at each team on offense and defense heading into the regular season. It is a capsule of what philosophy we will likely see on both sides of the ball as well as who is calling the shots. Here: the Seattle Seahawks.
Scouts 2009 capsule -- Seattle Seahawks
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Offense
Gregg Knapp takes over as the new offensive coordinator in 2009, but it won't look a lot different from the West Coast scheme former coach Mike Holmgren ran for years.
One of Knapp's best qualities is his ability to adjust his schemes to fit the personnel on hand. With a veteran QB, Matt Hasselbeck, we will see a short-to-intermediate passing game with a lot of dump-offs and screens to backs and tight ends, and safe routes to receivers. Deep shots may come off play action.
Knapp wants to run the ball more in 2009 and he will do it behind an offensive line that will primarily zone block up front.
Knapp's offenses have been a proven commodity over the years, but in Seattle he does face some challenges. A year ago, the offensive line had all five starters limited by the end of the season and quarterback Matt Hasselbeck missed nine games, so health and durability will be an early concern. There is also an urgency to have better run production on first and second downs with fewer times when the backs get caught behind the line of scrimmage to avoid so many third-and-longs like they did a season ago.
Defense
Seattle will continue to run a 4-3 defense in 2009, but defensive-oriented head coach Jim Mora will make some adjustments along with his new coordinator Gus Bradley, who comes from the Cover 2 scheme which the Seahawks will use, along with other looks.
A year ago, despite the fact that they were undersized, this was sometimes a passive defense without much of an attack mentality even though they vowed to be aggressive. Mora will dial up more blitzes from a variety of directions. We may see more man coverage than in the past behind those blitzes. They ask their linebackers to be active with a lot of range. As they get bigger and more physical up front they may go back to more read-and-react schemes and zones, but for now, they are forced to gamble to make up for their deficiencies.
One of the challenges for the coaches is how to apply better pressure without having to blitz all the time. The feeling in Seattle is that a lot of the secondary deficiencies will be solved by a better pass rush -- they hope that first-round pick OLB Aaron Curry will provide that rush. Bradley and Mora will run some components of the Cover 2, but the aggressive attack scheme will be different than what we usually see on the back end of this defense.
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