Somewhere between becoming the head coach of the Seahawks and preparing for his second season in the job, Mike Macdonald recognized one way that the job had changed him.

His comfort zone shifted.

Macdonald is in a lot of ways the prototypical football nerd, a cerebral, defensive coach who quickly climbed the coaching ranks, from coaching high school freshmen while still a college student to grad assistant at Georgia to, eventually, an NFL assistant who became one of the league's most sought-after defensive minds, making him a top head coaching candidate at just 36 years old, with the Seahawks making him the NFL's youngest head coach last year.

Or as cornerback Devon Witherspoon put it last year, Macdonald is "Nerdy for sure, but in a good way though. That's what makes him who he is."

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