The Seattle Seahawks’ offense will certainly look a lot different this fall from a personnel perspective, with newcomers Sam Darnold, Cooper Kupp and Marquez Valdes-Scantling replacing the likes of Geno Smith, DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett.

5 takeaways from Seahawks’ OTA and minicamp practices

But it also will look dramatically different from an X’s and O’s standpoint.

The Seahawks moved on from former offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb and replaced him with Klint Kubiak, who brings a Shanahan-style system to the Pacific Northwest. Kubiak’s offense centers on a wide-zone blocking scheme that ties into a heavy dose of play-action passing, which is a sharp contrast from Grubb’s dropback-heavy aerial attack.

The first on-field glimpse of the Seahawks in Kubiak’s offense came over the past two weeks, when the team held OTA and minicamp practices that were open to the media. And while it’s difficult to glean too much from this stage of the offseason, Seahawks Radio Network analyst Dave Wyman was impressed what he saw from Seattle’s new-look offense.

In particular, as a former NFL linebacker, Wyman highlighted how Kubiak’s wide-zone blocking scheme can put a lot of stress on linebackers by stretching the field horizontally.

“You’ll see guards just get out of their stance and almost run like straight down the line (toward the sideline),” Wyman said on Seattle Sports’ Wyman and Bob. “They’ve gotta get to certain points to block guys, but what happens is you end up getting angles when you’re on the run and going sideways. And if you seal a guy off, it just (creates) bigger gaps and it makes it tougher for the linebackers and the defensive line to stay in their gap.”

Wyman then highlighted the challenges of defending play-action passes in a wide-zone scheme.

“If it’s play-action pass, you’ve gotta run a long way (as a linebacker),” Wyman said. “You get all the way out there on that wide zone, and then all of a sudden the quarterback pulls it and it’s like crossing routes (in the other direction) and you’ve got a long ways to run. So it just makes it really difficult.”

Wyman also explained how play-action in a wide-zone scheme forces linebackers to wait an extra split-second while trying to decipher whether it’s a run or pass.

“As an inside linebacker, if the quarterback is under center, when you drop to your pass zone, it has to be after the quarterback clears the running backs,” Wyman said. “… And especially with this wide zone, if they run play-action off of that wide stretch that they’re doing, that’s a long time that the quarterback has the ball that you’re like, OK, I don’t know if he’s going to run it or throw it.

“And then if he does pull the ball and it’s a play-action pass, now you’re late.”

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