It appears Fleury is making life easy for his new players.
New Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Brian Fleury has big shoes to fill in 2026, as he takes over from Klint Kubiak, who just helped the franchise win a Super Bowl.
He'll have Sam Darnold and Jaxon Smith-Njigba as his two elite weapons, and for the most part, the offense that won the title last season has returned.
So that is good for continuity purposes, but there is also a big potential change that could have made things rather tough.
Any time you get a new coordinator in, there is a chance that what was learned last season gets thrown out the window. A new scheme, new verbiage, different everything, and sometimes that can take time to get off the ground. But has Fleury done that?
Analyst Brock Huard, who was a former NFL quarterback, has had his ear to the ground when it comes to what Fleury is doing offensively.
We have heard from Darnold and even Grey Zabel, who has stated that the offense has remained largely the same. As for Huard, he has revealed the choice Fleury has made this offseason that could bode well for Seattle.
“You have a choice. Am I going to blow up their whole language that everybody knows so I can speak my language? Or do I learn their stuff and make it easier on all of them and harder on me?” Huard said via Seattle Sports.
“He’s brought some new stuff. There is some new language, but all the veterans were like, no, that’s easy… So kind of a great communication and work in progress between staff, coach and players that shouldn’t surprise you with the level of communication in that building.”
So Fleury, per Huard, has done his new players a favor and made life easier for them, as most of what was learned last year has remained, albeit with a few new wrinkles thrown in.
Because of that, the Seahawks, in theory, should be in a better spot offensively than they would have been if Darnold and Co. had to learn a completely new scheme with different calls, etc.
Now, does that mean that the Seahawks' offense will be as good as it was last season? It doesn't. But it does give them the best shot at maintaining last year's level.
Fleury had a choice, as Huard said, and he's made one that benefits the team, not him, and who knows, we might look back in a couple of months and see this decision as one that helped propel the Seahawks to back-to-back titles.
