Why Brian Fleury’s thorough whiteboard demonstration won over Seahawks
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When the Seattle Seahawks held their interview process to replace Klint Kubiak, they interviewed several in-house candidates first. They took massive strides forward in 2025 and wanted to keep moving in that same direction in 2026, so it made sense to go with someone who worked under Klint. It came as a bit of a surprise when they reached across the aisle to interview their division rival San Francisco 49ers’ tight ends coach, Brian Fleury, and he was named to the job shortly after.
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Brock Huard had a quote about this on Seattle Sports Radio’s Brock & Salk Wednesday morning that’s getting tons of buzz, where he says Fleury’s thorough whiteboard demonstration won over the Seahawks’ brass.
Here’s the full article, and here’s Brock’s surging quote:
“I know he crushed the whiteboard,” Huard said. “I can say that confidently. I know he crushed the whiteboard. I know in the interview process it was pretty overwhelming to everybody in the room that his years under Kyle, and his understanding of situational ball, and the level and the depth and the detail was pretty overwhelming, because there were strong in-house candidates, a number of them.”
Huard’s credentials as a quarterback and primetime announcer come with the whiteboard as one of his biggest strengths. He’s focusing on different elements of communication than the rest of the Seahawks’ media space, and this time, it provided the missing link in the story.
This could be the way to see Fleury going forward. Kubiak was more of a whiteboard guy himself, and with how cerebral the offensive coordinator market has become, that would be the one quality Seattle couldn’t live without. There are no guarantees, but they made the best decision based on what mattered to them. That’s where the continuity came over an in-house hire.
This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: How Brian Fleury’s won the Seahawks offensive coordinator position