SEATTLE — The confetti from Super Bowl LX has barely been swept away, but the Seattle Seahawks aren’t taking a victory lap. They’re reloading.
Just one week after offensive mastermind Klint Kubiak departed to take the head coaching job with the Las Vegas Raiders, the reigning world champions found his successor in enemy territory. The Seahawks are hiring San Francisco 49ers tight ends coach Brian Fleury as their new offensive coordinator, per ESPN and NFL Network reports Sunday.
It’s a bold, aggressive strike against a bitter NFC West rival. Fleury isn’t just a positional coach; he’s the architect behind George Kittle’s recent dominance and served as San Francisco’s run game coordinator last season. Now, he hands the play-sheet for a Seahawks offense looking to repeat.
The Brain Drain: Kubiak Builds ‘Seattle South’ in Vegas
The Seahawks expected attrition after lifting the Lombardi Trophy. Success has a price. Klint Kubiak, the man who called the shots for Seattle’s title run, didn’t waste time building his new staff in Las Vegas. On Sunday night, the Raiders officially announced Andrew Janocko as their offensive coordinator.
Janocko served as Seattle’s quarterbacks coach during their championship 2025 campaign. He follows Kubiak to the desert, marking his first crack at a coordinator role after stops in Chicago and Minnesota. The message from Vegas is clear: they want the blueprint that just won it all.
The Harbaugh Ripple Effect
The coaching carousel didn’t stop at offensive coordinators. The Raiders also finalized their defensive staff on Sunday, navigating a bizarre sequence of events involving the New York Giants.
Las Vegas hired Matt Robinson as defensive secondary coach. Robinson had been on the job with the Giants for less than a week. He was one of 15 assistants who followed John Harbaugh from Baltimore to New York when Harbaugh accepted the Giants’ head coaching gig earlier this month. The Giants granted permission for the lateral move, allowing Robinson to reunite with newly promoted Raiders Defensive Coordinator Rob Leonard.
Leonard and Robinson share a history in Baltimore, and Leonard’s promotion from within suggests Kubiak wants continuity on the defensive side of the ball while overhauling the offense.
“You hate losing a guy like Klint, but that’s the business of winning rings. Brian [Fleury] knows this division inside out. He knows what makes our rivals tick. That’s a dangerous weapon to have on our sideline.”
— Anonymous Seahawks Front Office Source
What This Means for 2026
For Seattle: Hiring Fleury signals a commitment to the Shanahan-style run game that terrorized the league in 2025. With Fleury’s background in tight end play, expect Seattle to double down on 12-personnel packages, forcing defenses to choose between stopping the run and covering mismatches over the middle.
For Las Vegas: The Raiders are betting the house on the Kubiak system. By pairing Kubiak with Janocko, they ensure the quarterback room hears the same language from day one. The challenge? Installing a Super Bowl-caliber offense with a roster that hasn’t seen the playoffs in years.
