{"id":627923,"date":"2025-12-25T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/627923\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:28:12","slug":"seahawks-oc-klint-kubiak-has-his-priorities-straight-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/627923\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak has his priorities straight on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/seahawks-change-practice-schedule-christmas-170051492.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mike Macdonald amended the organization&#039;s practice schedule this week to reward the players with Christmas Day off;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Macdonald amended the organization&#8217;s practice schedule this week to reward the players with Christmas Day off<\/a>. Thursday would normally be the final practice session leading to Sunday&#8217;s contest, but players were thankful to spend time with their loved ones. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily apply to the coaching staff as well.<\/p>\n<p>Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak was among those meeting with the media on Christmas Eve. Kubiak was asked about his evening. Kubiak said laughingly that he&#8217;d be working on the Seahawks&#8217; red-zone offense before wishing the media Merry Christmas (tongue in-cheek).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Kubiak spent quality time with loved ones too, but it&#8217;s a reminder of the sacrifices that come with a demanding coaching job.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks rank 18th in converting red-zone possessions into touchdowns with a 58% success-rate, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamrankings.com\/nfl\/stat\/red-zone-scoring-pct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Team Rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Team Rankings<\/a>. That percentage has been below-average at 44.44% in Seattle&#8217;s latest three games. It&#8217;s no surprise Kubiak spent Christmas Eve racking his brain on red-zone strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-3 Seahawks will travel to Carolina to face the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Panthers<\/a> on Sunday in Week 17. They&#8217;re attempting to remain ahead of the 11-4 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> and San Francisco 49ers in the NFC West. Better efficiency in the red-zone would increase their chances of clinching the No. 1 seed in the competitive conference.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/12\/25\/seahawks-oc-klint-kubiak-has-his-priorities-straight-on-christmas-day\/87913356007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak has his priorities straight on Christmas Day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak has his priorities straight on Christmas Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald amended the organization&#8217;s practice schedule this week to reward the players with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[15721,87370,7,8357,58,2860,6,252,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-627923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-christmas-day","9":"tag-christmas-eve","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-klint-kubiak","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-mike-macdonald","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-seahawks","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks","19":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115781389882057598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}