{"id":764434,"date":"2026-02-20T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/764434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:49:49","slug":"what-new-seahawks-offensive-coordinator-brian-fleury-said-in-his-first-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/764434\/","title":{"rendered":"What new Seahawks offensive coordinator Brian Fleury said in his first press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third year in a row, there\u2019s a new Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator in town. Not all OC hires are the same, however, and former San Francisco 49ers tight ends coach Brian Fleury isn\u2019t here to rescue a struggling offense like his predecessor Klint Kubiak, but to build off of Kubiak\u2019s success as a Super Bowl champion play-caller turned Las Vegas Raiders head coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beyond working under Kyle Shanahan since 2019, Fleury has prior familiarity with some current Seahawks coaches and players, most notably quarterback Sam Darnold and tight end Eric Saubert when they were both on the team in 2023, as well as offensive line coach John Benton. While he\u2019s never held an OC role at any level of football before, Fleury has been considered an up-and-coming assistant coach whose promotion to offensive coordinator status was seemingly inevitable.<\/p>\n

Fleury held his first press conference as Seahawks OC on Thursday, with head coach Mike Macdonald alongside him. Here are some of the more intriguing quotes from his media session. (Transcript provided by Seahawks Media)<\/p>\n

Thanking the San Francisco 49ers organization<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to take an opportunity to really thank the York family and the San Francisco 49ers organization for seven great years. That\u2019s a long time for us. My family and I have never been anywhere that long, and we have a lot of lifelong memories and experiences from that, both inside and outside of football. I also want to thank Kyle Shanahan for the opportunities he gave me in the building to take ownership of new roles and develop me to the point where I\u2019m sitting here today. Now to answer the question, the opportunity means a lot. I mean, I think there\u2019s only 13 of these non-head coach play calling jobs on the planet. So, to be considered for one was an honor, and now to be sitting here next to Mike [Macdonald], I can\u2019t really express it any better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the Seahawks offense will look like under Fleury<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks very similar to the one that just won the Super Bowl. It\u2019s more about how you play than what you\u2019re actually doing schematically. We\u2019re going to be fast, violent, and aggressive in every way that we possibly can. Put pressure on defenses, both schematically and from a tempo standpoint, and just always have that type of mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Fleury\u2019s prior play-calling experience<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve called defense and special teams, both at the collegiate level. I have not called offensive plays, but have always been preparing to. The thing about offensive play calling to me is the preparation is done ahead of time. You\u2019re thinking through the situations and putting plays in a list format of when you get to 2nd and one inside the 30-yard line, what are you going to call? So, the preparation aspect of it I\u2019ve already done, now it\u2019s just a matter of analyzing the information in real time and getting to the right play call on the sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expect a lot of continuity from the Klint Kubiak offense to the Brian Fleury offense<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think one of the advantages of taking this job is there is going to be a lot of continuity. I\u2019ve already started to dive into everything that Klint was doing here last year, and the goal would be to maintain as much of that as possible. But there\u2019s also areas where we can supplement that with things that we\u2019ve developed and done in San Francisco under Kyle that Klint wasn\u2019t there for or maybe didn\u2019t implement as much. So, that\u2019s going to be the goal, to keep as much as we can the same, but I think there\u2019s definitely areas where we can grow, some different ways we can challenge the players that they should be looking forward to when they get back here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Brian Fleury call plays from the booth or on the field?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy vision would be to call it from the field, but I would like to do both in the preseason. There\u2019s just something to be said for having face-to-face conversations with every position group, and I also think that it\u2019s important if you have things in mind and you\u2019re anticipating calling stuff to preview it with those groups. That\u2019s something I would like to be able to do in person, which that would be the disadvantage from calling it from the booth. I\u2019ve spent a number of games up there and I do think that taking some of the sensory out of it helps and calms things from a play caller standpoint. I think ultimately I\u2019ll end up wanting to do it from the field for those reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Brian Fleury\u2019s defensive background shapes his offensive philosophy<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it 100% does. And I was fortunate to work in a bunch of different styles of defense. So it just makes it easier for me, I think, to diagnose how the defense is operating, how they\u2019re built, what the coverage structure is, how it works with the fronts, and what that allows me to do is probably quicker than maybe some other people get to ways to unlock that both formational and structurally, and again, put pressure on them to create conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Macdonald addresses Brian Fleury\u2019s lack of offensive playcalling experience<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing into it, I do think it\u2019s a bit overrated. At some point, all play callers have to be first time play callers at some point. You could tell how Brian thinks about the game. Look, you\u2019re going to have to grow into any new role, but we have a lot of great people around here and a lot of great opportunities for him to get ready to go. I\u2019m really confident he\u2019s going to be off and running sooner than later. I\u2019m excited about it. It\u2019s going to be a fun process to build this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full video of Fleury\u2019s press conference can be seen below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third year in a row, there\u2019s a new Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator in town. Not all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,718,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-764434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","14":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116102812396991443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764434","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=764434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}