{"id":662070,"date":"2026-01-07T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/662070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:08:13","slug":"5th-team-requests-interview-with-seattle-seahawks-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/662070\/","title":{"rendered":"5th team requests interview with Seattle Seahawks OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak has been a popular candidate for open NFL head-coaching jobs, and now Mike Macdonald\u2019s former team is reportedly interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/seattle-seahawks-designate-arroyo-return-to-practice\/1834844\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seahawks designate rookie TE Arroyo to return to practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2008986392119119879\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero reported<\/a> Wednesday that the Baltimore Ravens have requested to interview the 38-year-old Kubiak, becoming the fifth of seven teams with vacancies at head coach to be linked to Kubiak. The offensive play-caller has also <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/report-4-teams-interested-seattle-seahawks-kubiak-head-coach\/1834737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly received interview requests<\/a> from the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Las Vegas Raiders and New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the news about the Ravens\u2019 request, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2008938349873258628\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport reported<\/a> Kubiak is set to interview with Raiders on Friday. Rapoport said Friday and Saturday appear to be when he will also interview with the Cardinals, Falcons and Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Kubiak is eligible to participate in virtual interviews this week since the Seahawks earned a first-round bye in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The job in Baltimore opened up Tuesday when <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/mike-macdonalds-previous-team-joins-list-of-nfl-head-coach-vacancies\/1834756\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Ravens parted ways with longtime head coach John Harbaugh<\/a> after 18 seasons, which included winning Super Bowl XLVII in 2013. Baltimore finished 8-9 this season and was eliminated from playoff contention in a de facto AFC North title game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald, who took over as Seahawks head coach last season, spent nine seasons working under Harbaugh in Baltimore over two separate stints, including a tenure as defensive coordinator in 2022 and 2023 before joining Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Under Kubiak, the Seahawks ranked third in the league in scoring (28.4 points per game) and tied for seventh in yards (351.4 per game) this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kubiak is one of two Seahawks coordinators receiving interest as a head coach. The Cleveland Browns on Tuesday reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/another-seattle-seahawks-assistant-requested-head-coach-browns\/1834759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">requested to interview defensive coordinator Aden Durde<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/seattle-seahawks-most-likely-opponent-playoffs\/1834833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy Rost: Who is the Seahawks\u2019 most likely playoff opponent?<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/how-2025-seattle-seahawks-compare-to-legion-of-boom-defenses\/1834710\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How 2025 Seahawks compare to the best Legion of Boom defenses<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/bump-and-stacy\/bump-seattle-seahawks-defense-will-be-even-better-in-playoffs\/1834736\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bump: Why Seattle Seahawks\u2019 defense will be even better in playoffs<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/massive-improvement-seattle-seahawks-pass-protection-sacks\/1834732\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O-line has been an area of dramatic improvement for Seahawks<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/another-seattle-seahawks-assistant-requested-head-coach-browns\/1834759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A second Seahawks assistant reportedly requested for head coach interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZacHereth\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @ZacHereth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak has been a popular candidate for open NFL head-coaching jobs, and now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,1631,3932,3930,6,238,237,261,2635,9,3931,1951,1952],"class_list":{"0":"post-662070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-mynorthwest-com","11":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talk-and-community","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115855865046727591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662070","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=662070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}