For the better part of the past decade, the Seattle Seahawks have been squaring off in the NFC West against two of football’s brightest offensive minds – Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay and San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan.

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But when it came time for the Seahawks to find a successor to Pete Carroll as head coach, they didn’t try to copy their division rivals by finding the next hotshot offensive guru.

Instead, they went the opposite direction and hired rising star Mike Macdonald, who has quickly developed a reputation as one of the league’s best defensive play-callers.

“Mike Macdonald was hired to be a disruptor,” former NFL quarterback Brock Huard said on Seattle Sports’ Blue 88. “You did not stay stat

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