The elimination process continues for the Seattle Seahawks and the search for the next offensive coordinator. We should turn this into a reality show. Do as the football version of The Bachelor (ette) and Pete Carroll delivers his special handbook to his most attractive candidate.
In any case, both the Los Angeles Chargers and the Seattle Seahawks have asked for permission to interview former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator and New Orleans Saints quarterback coach Joe Lombardi. We don’t know if the Seahawks ever got this interview because Lombardi was hired by Brandon Staley and the Chargers.
Lombardi is actually a Seattle native who attended high school at Seattle Prep on Capitol Hill. In the NFL, he served for a year as a defensive assistant at the Atlanta Falcons before being hired by the New Orleans Saints in 2007. He was from offensive assistant to defender coach before leaving in 2014 to become the Detroit Lions offensive coordinator. Things didn’t go well there, so after he was fired in 2015, Payton brought him back as the QBs coach and now he will have a second chance at being a CO, this time with Justin Herbert as his quarterback.
I assume that if the Seahawks interviewed Lombardi, this was an immediately disqualifying statement.
New #Chargers OC Joe Lombardi: “I’m a big fan of fighting on the fourth down.” The data shows that NFL coaches are generally not aggressive enough.
– Daniel Popper (@danielrpopper) January 26, 2021
So it won’t be Anthony Lynn, Joe Lombardi, Mike Kafka, Shane Steichen, probably not Doug Pederson, hopefully not Adam Gase. Maybe it’s Ken Dorsey?
Stay tuned!